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To: TimF who wrote (5960)	3/14/2003 5:18:18 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

"If I tried to describe human nature it would be a book not a post and it still wouldn't do justice to the idea. My point was only that I don't think it has changed a lot throughout recorded history." So your assertion meant nothing to others then? It is a belief you apparently have based on some idea pertinent to yourself (and worthy of a book)? An idea that "can't be boiled down". In any event, whatever "IT" is...HASN'T changed much by your lights. You do not see language, art, conceptual awareness, or the sublimation of brutal instincts and values as representative of a change in our ideas or feelings, the nature of our consciousness and how we interface with our environment? Fair enough, then. I DO think it has changed, however. Experiencing life conceptually through the internet makes us fundamentally different than the brutes who "controlled" their environment by tearing the hearts out of young girls so that the gods would send rain, and so forth. Clearly, anyone can see the change between ancient man who lived with and like the animals, and modern man who has been molded by language, culture, and art into a civilized being. I admit that a mere 5000 years requires a more subtle perception of difference, but I guess the only people who do not know that it (change) is there would be those who believe that humans simply appeared on earth in their present physical and intellectual form, and never had a slanted forehead, small brain, or other ape-like characteristics to overcome.