[KO] You feed him Arlo. [Arlo] I respond to him, Keith. And even then only the posts that are particularly horrible. I am well aware that Platt "trolls", its his MO, I get that. But why should I tolerate such offensive bullshit any more here than I would any where else in my life? When I see someone try to twist Pirsig's words into justification for White Supremacy it appalls me. Maybe you don't have the years of history here to see that, but I could produce a string of evidence from the archives. But watch, I tried to give Platt the opportunity to show me wrong, to give any examples of ways in which non-white cultures are morally superior to his own, be they Inuit, Lakota, Cajun, "black American", Maori,... "gay culture", etc. If his "call" was to truly look around the world and see who gets what right and who does so-and-so better, it would be one thing. But it is not, it is veiled rhetoric proclaiming the Total and Absolute Moral Superiority of White Culture (excluding, of course, the miscreants who happen to be white but live differently than Platt).
To your P.S. points, absolutely. Social behavior afforded a huge evolutionary leap for early primates. The unintentional consequences of social activity led to unprecedented rapidity in the evolution of how man lives. To nitpick, though, you say "people join groups because to be in a group has potentially better survival prospects", I would say "groups survived because the afforded better survival prospects". They were not formed for a reason, but after socialization made groups possible, their effect held value and so they persist. Today, no one "joins" a group. We are from the moment we are born enculturated. Indeed, even before we are born our sensations are awash in a milieu of culturally bound signals. "We" have never been alone. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
