Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

NO civilization uses their technology to the utmost -- if ours did,
we'd have fusion power working by now, cities on Mars, cures for
Alzheimers and schizophrenia, and heart transplants for indigents.

As for the Indians... they had the wheel, but used it only for
children's toys; they had metallurgy for jewelry making but not
for farm implements; in South America, they got exceptionally
close to writing, but never make it.

Not that this is teribly germane to the original assertion.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Yo Intl. YK" 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:51:46 +0900

At 12:34 Uhr -0700 04.09.2002, mike shupp wrote:

>There's not a lot of evidence that Indians went to war in ordinary
>circumstances for the sort of ideological/religious/loot-and-glory things
>that inspired OUR ancestors. They didn't build world empires, and they
>didn't build socialism, and they didn't build Dauchau and Auschwitz. They
>weren't perfect, but harping on their "savage
>brutality" is rhetorical overkill.

You mean they did not use their existing technology to the max?
I would have thought every civilisation has done that, the first exception
being the the current time, where lots of governments have nuclear bombs
but everybody is hesitating to use them.


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-- Rene 




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