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To: D. Long who wrote (117352)	12/18/2000 1:28:06 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Very true. And it makes sense to be as sympathetic as possible when doing an ethnographic study. The question is, does relativism make any sense even from a scientific point of view? What I mean is, we know that as soon as a society has a substantial surplus, it will begin to build temples and palaces, support priests and courtiers, and develop a rudimentary engineering capability, so that it may come to build cities. We know that given half a chance, it will develop ideogrammatic writing, and that there appears to be an evolution to at least partially phonetic writing that is widespread. In other words, we know that there are natural human inclinations to build civilization, and that therefore the hierarchy built on the terms "primitive" and "civilized" does compose a rough matrix in which to view the success of a culture, or its potential.......