Re: Will there be time to Relax?

From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 14:08:04 MST


Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> People work toward basic needs, such as food, first. After food, shelter,
> finances are taken care of, then social bonding will become important.
> Social bonding is secondary to the immediate physical needs.

One must distinguish task, kinship and informal social groups. In gregarious
species such as ours, I suppose coorperation for hunting, gathering and
mutual defense, i.e. task-oriented bonding, especially among early nomadic
communities, would have been coincident historically with the "work toward
basic needs" you describe.

Bob

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cynthia <cyn386@flash.net>
> To: <extropians@extropy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:15 am
> Subject: Re: Will there be time to Relax?
>
> > I think in time of plenty, social bonds widen. People in extreme poverty
> > tend to only care about their immediate family.

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