with Anthony FC Wallace on my mind today, I ponder the following three NYT videos on conflict in the Ukraine . . . As a youth, my biggest curiosity was hatred and violence, both within and between societies . . . In college I didnt know how to study that . . . did it fall under history? or psychology? or anthropology? Only when I began to learn about neural networks could I make sense of the several factors--meanings, feelings, and motivations--that explain the things man does unto his fellow man. Look at these videos from Crimea, where Cossacks are striking terror into the hearts of Tartars: (1)nytimes/video/world/europe/100000002766688/crimean-tatars-face-uncertain-future.html?playlistId=1194811622182 (2) nytimes/video/multimedia/100000002747596/cossacks-rally-for-crimeas-ethnic-russians.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Fvertical%3Dvideo%2F%23%2FCossacks%2F (3) nytimes/video/world/europe/100000002114638/russias-cossack-revival.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Fvertical%3Dvideo%2F%23%2FCossacks%2F
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:18:33 +0000