Itu sebabnya saya (ikut) bilang, "bacalah alam semesta" karena di sana ada diajarkan perkara keseimbangan / harmoni. "Alam terkembang jadi guru," kata nenek tetangga.
Mengangankan sekeping ide berlaku buat semua orang, mungkin itu utopis. Tapi kepingin bangun rumah di atas air seperti contoh di bawah mah bukan utopis, melainkan goblok. Nggak baca alam. Barat, hanya karena pernah mengatur tanah jajahan, lalu merasa paling jago soal kemasyarakatan. Ideologi kiri baru-baru ini saja kembali bergeliat di Eropa. Terakhir, Itali yang lengket dengan Vatican pun ikut beriak melalui Partai Demokrat yang gabungan dari orang-orang Democratici di Sinistra (left democrats) & Margherita Party. Mereka berjanji mau menggeber etika politik yang semakin keruh di tangan orang-orang kanan, katanya. Artinya, libas-melibas antara kiri & kanan masih berlangsung sesama Barat. Padahal, di Timur sekurangnya ada RRC yang sejak 1/4 abad lalu sudah beternak kanan, dan sejak awal abad ini terus melaju di bawah kibaran bendera hexie shehui. From: "Leo Susanto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : http://www.oculture.com/2007/10/our_ancestral_mind_in_the_modern_world_an_interview_with_satoshi_kanazawa.html : : SK: Steven Pinker, in his 2002 book The Blank Slate, makes a very : convincing argument that all Utopian visions, whether they be : motivated by left-wing ideology or right-wing ideology, are doomed : to failure, because they all assume that human nature is malleable. : Evolutionary psychologists have discovered that the human mind is : not a blank slate, a tabula rasa; humans have innate biological : nature as much as any other species does, and it is not malleable. : Paul H. Rubin's 2002 book Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary : Origin of Freedom gives an evolutionary psychological account of why : Burke and classical liberals (who are today called libertarians) may : have been right. : : As a scientist, I am not interested in Utopian visions (or any other : visions for society). But it seems to me that, if you want to change : the world successfully, you cannot start from false premises. Any : such attempt is bound to fail. If you build a house on top of a lake : on the assumption that water is solid, it will inevitably collapse : and sink to the bottom of the lake, but if you recognize the fluid : nature of water, you can build a successful houseboat. A houseboat : may not be as good as a genuine house built on ground, but it's : better than a collapsed house on the bottom of the lake. A vision : for society based on an evolutionary psychological understanding of : human nature at least has a fighting chance, which is a much better : than any Utopian vision based on the assumption that human nature is : infinitely malleable. : Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
