tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post8851707649500967515..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: "White Trash": the ugly reality and its importAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-80240976259594466212018-02-09T08:44:27.636-05:002018-02-09T08:44:27.636-05:00Actually, I'm not sure we know that small scal...Actually, I'm not sure we know that small scale hunter gatherer bands were always egalitarian. Were women "equal" to men? Was there sometimes a "strong man"? Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-20011456808377009312018-02-09T08:24:13.281-05:002018-02-09T08:24:13.281-05:00Well, yes, good point. I was thinking about today’...Well, yes, good point. I was thinking about today’s situation with very large settled populations. We are not likely to revert to bands. It is not obvious that they, too, did not have hierarchy as, say, driven by bullying. But that is beside the point of this post.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-87241253507980764272018-02-08T23:16:31.112-05:002018-02-08T23:16:31.112-05:00"Whether equity is ever actually possible is ... "Whether equity is ever actually possible is something social scientists can ponder,"<br /><br />WTF? equity was how humans lived and evolved for hundreds of thousands of years. For 95% of human evolution, people lived in small scale egalitarian hunter gatherer bands. Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02470475758695858311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-35240119426612655882018-02-08T15:44:08.063-05:002018-02-08T15:44:08.063-05:00That book sounds like a treatise of the eugenics m...That book sounds like a treatise of the eugenics movement. Any port in the self-justification storm. It's all too human, and too tragic.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-89278250900658693922018-02-08T15:03:46.636-05:002018-02-08T15:03:46.636-05:00The book is on my to-read list. Thanks for the rem...The book is on my to-read list. Thanks for the reminder. Brings to mind another book also on my to-read list, titled "Are They Rich Because They're Smart?". Robert Kopechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873765000196899526noreply@blogger.com