A abych aspon trochu odcinil svoje narikani, tumate uryvek z Blank Slate:

(...) Keeley and others have noted that native peoples are dead serious when they carry out warfare. Many of them make weapons as damaging as their technology permits, exterminate their enemies when they can get away with it, and enhance the experience by torturing captives, cutting off trophies, and feasting on enemy flesh.

Counting societies instead of bodies leads to equally grim figures. In 1978 the anthropologist Carol Ember calculated that 90 percent of hunter-gatherer societies are known to engage in warfare, and 64 percent wage war at least once every two years. Even the 90 percent figure may be an underestimate, because anthropologists often cannot study a tribe long enough to measure outbreaks that occur every decade or so (imagine an anthropologist studying the peaceful Europeans between 1918 and 1938). In 1972 another anthropologist, W. T. Divale, investigated 99 groups of hunter-gatherers from 37 cultures, and found that 68 were at war at the time, 20 had been at war five to twenty-five years before, and all the others reported warfare in the more distant past.

HANEBNIK: neni tomu tak. Junk food, ve smyslu nekvalitni stravy, se vali vsude dost. Neveril bys, jaky problemy ma vetsina domorodejch kmenu s hladem; kdyz je zle, sezerou vsechno a par jich kvuli tomu i poumira. Chudobu jako stav mysli ani komentovat radsi nebudu...

Pravda je mozna relativni, ale nemuzes srovnavat neinformovanej, naivne romantickej obrazek od nekoho, kdo pravdepodobne vyrustal na Majovkach a Pocahontas, s poznatkama moderni antropologie. Predstava, ze tradicni kmenovy kultury jsou neco jako biblickej raj na zemi je mozna krasna, ale naprosto mimo realitu. A stavet si na ni nazory a zivotni postoje, jak to dela spousta lidi, je trochu hloupy. Mainstreamova kultura tomu ale, bohuzel, moc nepomaha... staci si vzpomenout na Avatara.

Mimochodem, pro trochu strizlivejsi vhled do lidsky prirozenosti staci vratit se na chvili k povinny cetbe ze stredni a otevrit Pana much od Goldinga.

ESTEN: hle nechci obhajovat ten pic, protože vím, že pravda je ralativní.. Ty knihy si nejspíš nikdy nepřečtu...ale není tomu třeba tak, že přichází o domov, mají stres, či dělají nějaké "zločiny", hlavně díky střetům s naší civilizací? Dále pak vůbec netuším, kde v pralese roste junk food :D.. A chudoba? to je jen stav mysli..

HANEBNIK: nemuzu si pomoct...

No stress No bombs
No homeless No crime or prisons
No junk food No external debt
No pollution No poverty

Plusikarum tohohle oblibenyho mytu doporucuju nejdriv googlit "noble savage" a chvili si cist; nasledne zajit do knihovny a pujcit si snad cokoli od Wrighta nebo Ridleyho; nebo si pockat az vyjde v cestine Pinkerova kniha Blank Slate. Budete koukat.

// ehm... tohle je hodne borderline

Man's happiness today consists in 'having fun.' Having fun lies in the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks, cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies — all are consumed, swallowed. The world is one great object for our appetite, a big apple, a big bottle, a big breast; we are the sucklers, the eternally expectant ones, the hopeful ones — and the eternally disappointed ones.

— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, 1956

RADIQAL: No coz me privadi na tohle (pokud je tu nekdo kdo este nejel metrem z crossu :-)

/Vím, je to humornej meme, ale myslím, že to má něco do sebe/

HARVIE: znam.. odsud.. ;]

HESPELER: Z Aldous Huxley auditka:

neni to vylozene psychedelicky mem, ale rozhodne to je worth spreading stuff, tak snad omluvite..
pripadne me smazte / doporucte do vice relevant topicu.. diky

let's go shopping / revolution in sale

Life is always becoming. Becoming what? Becoming becoming. Life is on its way to further complications, further deepness and mystery, further processes of becoming and change. Life is circle of becoming, an autocatalytic set, inflaming itself with its own sparks, breeding upon itself more life and more wildness and more “becomingness.” Life has no conditions, no moments that are not instantly becoming something more than life itself. - Gretel Ehrlich (dobré příjmení pro tenhle citát mimochodem).

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one day our bodies will be old and our souls will be renewed and the stories that we could have told will be moments that we lived...