From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 13:25:25 MST
From: Lee Daniel Crocker
>> [Fukuyama's] claim<<
>Of course he's absolutely right--and this has happened before
many times. Human nature used to involve small bands of hunter-
gatherers, and social institutions and values based on that.
With agriculture, we had to create new institutions and new
values. With the industrial revolution, we had to do it again.
It was difficult, and painful, but we are better for it. Does
Mr. Fukuyama think that technologies like birth control and
personal defense destroyed the "feminine dignity" of women whose
lives used to be based upon their nature as weak and vulnerable?
Yes, human nature will change, and our present social values
and institutions won't be able to cope: so fix them! Upgrade
the society as well as its members. Societies are built to
serve us, not we for them. Let us charge into the future as
masters of our fate, not cower in fear of changes that will
empower and enrich us all.<
APPLAUSE! Bravo! Yaaaaaay.
Natasha
For future feminine dignity, with style.
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