From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@calweb.com)
Date: Tue Mar 25 1997 - 00:09:56 MST
> The Low Golden Willow writes:
> >we must not only show how our envisioned society could work, we must
> >explain why current society is the way it is and why any exceptions
> >our opponents will come up with don't apply.
>
> Yes. Not only should we explain why people now disagree with us, but
> also why people in the past have disagreed. We especially need to
> explain the events that they used as an empirical basis for their
> claims. Hence my post on the feudal to state transition.
> Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
This is an excellent point. The more I think about it, the more I am
forced to agree with the great mind of Eli Yudkowski: evolutionary
psychology is the best field of study to answer those questions.
People, and the societies they form, are the way they are because we
evolved the way we did.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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