Carrol Cox Homo sapiens evolved as groups, not as individuals "thinking for themselves." All evidence about reading & writing is grounded in what an isolated individual can produce. And of course, reading and writing had no part in our evolution. There is no hard (or for that matter soft) evidence that both reading and writing are not 'freakish' skills of individuals, which cut across the more 'natural' operations of human intelligence, namely thinking aloud in a group -- and a group, moreover defined by common purposes, purposes which involve spontaneous recognition that the individual cannot think by or for him/herself or set his/her individual needs.
That is speculation, but it makes as much sense as all this nonsense about how sad it is that so many (possibly, possibly not) isolated individuals can "read" or want to read. ^^^^^ CB: Hear, hear ! , Carrol. And even reading and writing is highly social even when done in isolation by an individual. The great individual genius in an area of reading and writing , Newton, said this well when he said he stood on the shoulders of giants. Bourgeois thought is completely saturated with the Delusion of "The" Individual's Grandeur and Robinsonades. The "group" s u refer to above always include past, dead generations of said groups, thereby expanding the sociality of all individuals enormously. Carrol _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
