CTC:
Unfortunately, (for you) I am correct on every single point. Behaviorism is vastly overblown and tribalism has more bad points than good.
Man is above the animals because he can out-think them. [If the asteroid hadn't hit, then perhaps intelligent dinosaurs would have debated this millions of years ago on their version of the Internet, but that's another story and a different universe.]
Rational, cognitive thought at the level of even the average man is far advanced from even the most exceptional ape. Of course this may not hold true in the future as we may genetically change apes and even choose to bring back Mammoths and other extinct species as we strive towards the stars and our ultimate destiny of becoming gods.
The suckling reaction of an infant is not an instinct but a response to stimuli created by a perceived need within an infant. The defense of a mother (or father) towards his or her child is not instinctive, but a selfish reaction. Some mothers do not defend their young. Some even murder them.
Humans are better than other organisms because, at least for the moment, we are on the top of your beloved evolutionary heap. Or would you prefer to live out your existence in the mud as a paramecium?
Tribalism does not "contribute" to education, it undermines it. The best example of tribalism in our schools is gangs, chiefly the Crips and Bloods. Surely not conducive to higher learning. Federalism, a form of sophisticated tribalism, foisted upon a young America by the evil Alexander Hamilton, is to be condemned. And federal public schools are a blight upon reason and should also, by their very nature, be expunged from existence.
All advances in the sciences have not been due to tribalism, but by the genius of individual men and women, some working against great odds.
I am part of no tribe. You may belong to a tribe if you wish, but know that all tribes are doomed to extinction.
FT |
