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To: stsimon who wrote (301974)	6/14/2016 12:51:35 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 541842

The entire world was functioning the way we did when we wiped out the indigenous people. One can see the state of mind of the world at the time by their customs. Slavery was pervasive, cruelty and torture were pervasive. The average person (mostly men) actually got excited over violence. They still do, but it was worse then. It was the human condition at the time. I was watching the violence in France recently over the world soccer matches. You could see the enjoyment the people were getting fighting other people. They had one guy down on the ground and kept kicking him and beating on him and you could see how enjoyable it was for the people that were doing it. I don't think we've ever come to terms with this enjoyment that so many people get by hurting other people. The great author Larry McMurtry does a fine job describing the mind of people in the 1800s and how barbaric they were in the norm. Governments paying for Indian scalps, and all the other horrendous things we did. I often tell people, can you believe that just 150 years ago many people in this country sat around and discussed whether slavery was okay or not? Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson wrote in their book an ecology of mind, that they constantly puzzled over why one tribe in New Guinea would be just wonderful and sweet nice, and another tribe would be mean and nasty. They never figured it out, and I have never figured out. I've only been a witness to the fact. I agree the veneer of civilization is very thin and we have to be on our guard all the time. As one of my favorite mentors Will Durant says:" the barbarians are always roaming the perimeters of civilization looking to bring it down". In our country today of course that would be the Republican Party.

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