Re: [Leica] Again and again (was: never again)

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

I think that evolution tended to favour the, now considered rash, quick
thinker rather than the contemplator when faced with a sabre-tooth tiger.

John Collier

Hard wired for a reason, unfortunate at times though.

> From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
> 
> Robert Appleby jotted down the following:
> 
>> "Barthes emphasises the need to probe the history of social arrangements.
>> Rather than scratching human history to reveal the solid rock of a universal
>> human nature, he argues, a progressive humanism must scour nature to discover
>> history, and finally to establish Nature itself as historical.... It is the
>> superficial "humanizing" of others, rather than the empathetic probing of
>> different lifeways, experiences, and interests that creates the crises of
>> understanding that break open at times of war."
> 
> Yeah, this is practically the major flaw and shortcoming of the human race.
> We're equipped with these large brains, but our default behaviour seems to
> be to use them as little as possible.  Almost every opportunity for deep
> understanding of something typically ends up as an exercise in
> categorization, stereotyping, and superficiality.  Our world is subjective
> and dynamic, but almost any treatment of it assumes that it's objective and
> static. 
> 
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