Re: [xmca] The myth of the noble savage

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 16:27:05 PST


False premises lead nowhere except to headlines.
What chutzpah!
mike

On 3/29/07, Phil Chappell <philchappell@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Steven Pinker writes a piece claiming the "leftist anthropologists'
> celebration of the noble savage" was mistaken and that we are
> becoming a much less violent species. Whilst referring to interesting
> data, and more "interesting" explanations, Pinker hedges toward
> celebrating our current peaceful state...rather a worry.
>
> Phil
>
> http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge206.html#pinker
>
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