[Vision2020] And So It Began, Long, Long Ago...

[lfalen]

Unfortunatly, no one will listen.
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From: Ralph Nielsen nielsen at uidaho.edu
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:00:51 -0800
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] And So It Began, Long, Long Ago...

> Excellent remarks, Ted. But how many will listen to you?
> Ralph
> 
> TED MOFFETT
> Regarding the Democrats marginalizing Republicans in the new US  
> Congress,
> think of this in terms of the sectarian conflicts in nations around the
> globe.  Then think in terms of the Darwinian genetic programming in the
> human mammal brain, conditioned in its emotional/survival responses  
> by the
> fact that for millenia upon millenia, the tribe that won control of the
> critical resources in the area of the tribes wanderings would  
> survive, while
> the other tribe either moved on, were killed off, or withered,  
> especially
> when the resources were not large enough to support all the tribes in  
> the
> region.  Now fast forward to the modern age, when tribal influences can
> extend globally, such as in the hegemony of the US empire, while the  
> mammal
> brain still functions as though it is facing tribal conflicts over  
> localized
> critical resources from the pre-scientific/technological age.  Now  
> think of
> applying these ideas to the Sunni/Shite/Kurd/Turkey/Iran/Saudi
> Arabia/Israel, etc. Middle East stew that the US, in its infinite  
> wisdom,
> thinks/thought it can/could solve with brute military force, without
> appearing to be just another tribe trying to extend its control over
> resources for its own advantage.
> 
> Where was I?  Oh yeah, Democrats and Republicans!  Just another  
> couple of
> mini-tribes trying to maximize their control over the resources that  
> the big
> tribe, the USA, has.  But they both are bellying up to the same cash  
> trough,
> mostly controlled by other more dominant tribal leaders, the captains of
> corporate capitalism, which now are linked together into some sort of
> monster multi-national global tribe trying to play the game of global
> control over products, labor, resources, money markets, currency...
> 
> I offer this in the hope that the Red vs. Blue divide in the US might be
> transcended, so that the divide and conquer strategy employed to  
> distract
> the US populace from the Machiavellian machinations of the primary  
> players
> controlling our future, might be perceived more accurately.  But then  
> there
> is that dang mammalian human brain, conditioned to respond to its  
> primitive
> tribal struggle for survival from millions of years of evolution,  
> that is so
> easily manipulated to respond to sectarian, religious, political  
> struggles,
> us/vs them, they are evil we are good oversimplifications of the  
> reality of
> power distribution, despite the modern age of science and technology,  
> which
> should enable humans all over the planet to forget these ridiculous  
> silly
> squabbles (Socialists vs. Capitalists, Democrats vs. Republicans,  
> Sunni vs.
> Shite, Christian vs. Muslim, etc. etc.) to bring about the paradise of
> global peace and plenty that is the human birthright.
> 
> This Darwinian reductionism perhaps explains (perhaps not) both the
> obsession of sports fans with their team (I had to throw that it!),  
> their
> tribe, winning the "war," and the laughable political and/or religious
> tribal struggles that are life or death to many.
> 
> Free Will, anyone?  Or knee jerk evolutionarily conditioned mammal brain
> tribal survival/revenge determinism?
> 
> Ted Moffett
> 
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