From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 01:37:39 MST
John K Clark wrote:
> "Hubert Mania" <humania@t-online.de> Wrote:
>
>
>>in this much more complex world of today, with the
>>cortex luxury at your free disposal, the reptile answer
>>- much armour, little brain - is not adequate anymore.
>
>
> More complex? I don't think so. Human beings are weak, slow and have small
> teeth compared to other animals, the only thing they have going for them is
> their brain, but today it take far less brain power to survive then at any
> time in the past so when your reptilian brain speaks to you it might be wise
> to listen to what it has to say, there may be wisdom there. When confronted
> with a bully like Saddam the difference between the hawks and the doves is
> that one group favors fight and the other flight.
>
Uh huh. Well, all the bullies I've ever met were generally
bigger or at least able to hit damn hard. Somehow it isn't
Saddam that fits that image in the current situation.
I don't favor fight or flight. I favor finding more productive
choices beginning with not reducing the world to simplistic
"analysis". I favor building a world where all people have a
strong and obvious stake in a future that increases the
well-being and saftgety of everyone. I don't think you get
there by disowning large sections of the world or painting them
as "axis of Evil". I don't think the reptilian brain is a lot
of help either.
- samantha
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