Ink-Stained Wretch: Is warfare hard-wired into human neurobiology - TopicsExpress



          

Ink-Stained Wretch: Is warfare hard-wired into human neurobiology or culture? Was Hobbes correct in his glum outlook that primitive peoples were brutal killers, or did Rousseau get it right with his notion of an Eden-like peaceful early history for humanity? All of those things are debatable, as is the question of whether wars have been over-emphasized in history teaching. John Green says he believes that other factors besides warfare have had more influence on human history. Green elides the fact that wars and rumors of wars remain the engine of human concepts of what is news that they are willing to pay for and to pay attention to; and that metaphors & figures of speech about conflicts, fights, murders, wars & killing appear throughout human writing, speech & thought across cultures and across millennia...
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:59:03 +0000

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