New Scientist: Better to be wanderers?
Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war. “War emerged when humans shifted from a nomadic existence to a settled one and was commonly tied to agriculture.” I think they miss the point. It’s the accumulation of goods that makes us selfish to the point of violence.
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Rather than the macro, I look at the micro. The shootout in northern NM a few years ago, where two families were trying to pick each other off, over a moved property marker. Cops had to stand off until the bozos ran out of ammo ... the owners had higher power weaponry than law enforcement.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 07/08/09 at 03:58 PM
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From that horrible article:
Wow - there’s just a .... wow.......WOW...really!?!! What a quaintly perverse history at work there… I mean, how the f*ck does one discuss WAR and not once invoke the word “invasion?” (Seriously, search the page - doesn’t even occur in the comments as my writing here.)
What kind of psychology is at work there?