Ah, You know me and my clumsy way with the english language. "It is wrong" was indeed worded clumsily. It is more pointing the finger to a phenomenon which doesn't mesh well with the story we're telling ourselves and our children: We are civilization! We are not like that!
It also points out a real problem - we try to reach for an egalitarian society with our political beliefs (democracy), but not our social beliefs (we like our hierarchy, our pecking order, boss <-> employee, teacher <-> student, football star <-> nerd girl).
We do have instincts for hierarchy (which involves putting down weaker members of the tribe) and sexual predatorship. It's part of the human condition. The question is how we domesticate it.
I don't think so. It is the society we shaped for the now. We have 150.000 years of human society, all kinds of societies, with different outlets, goals and foundations. To put the flaws of our society into the "instinct" camp is like saying "it's inevitable" (i know You don't mean that, since You call for domestication). I firmly believe that we, as humans, are free to choose how to live together, what kind of society we want to build. (I have to believe that - otherwise there is nothing i could put up - philisophically speaking - against what my grandparents did).
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Date: 2010-09-09 06:37 pm (UTC)It also points out a real problem - we try to reach for an egalitarian society with our political beliefs (democracy), but not our social beliefs (we like our hierarchy, our pecking order, boss <-> employee, teacher <-> student, football star <-> nerd girl).
We do have instincts for hierarchy (which involves putting down weaker members of the tribe) and sexual predatorship. It's part of the human condition. The question is how we domesticate it.
I don't think so. It is the society we shaped for the now. We have 150.000 years of human society, all kinds of societies, with different outlets, goals and foundations. To put the flaws of our society into the "instinct" camp is like saying "it's inevitable" (i know You don't mean that, since You call for domestication). I firmly believe that we, as humans, are free to choose how to live together, what kind of society we want to build. (I have to believe that - otherwise there is nothing i could put up - philisophically speaking - against what my grandparents did).