Posted on 10/01/2016 9:58:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Are humans innately violent? Anthropologists have often said "no" -- in public. But troubling facts kept bubbling up, until in 1966 Napoleon Chagnon published a breakthrough field study of the violent Yanamamo tribes in Venezuela.
Rousseau's Noble Savage, the primitive man-child who only killed in self-defense, started to crumble fast. In the real world, of course, the daily toll of human-to-human violence never stopped. In warlike tribes the adult male death rate from interpersonal violence now stands around one out of three. Because humans adapt in many different ways, that number is variable.
A new study published in Nature, the world's original scientific journal, now compares human death by violence with other species and finds it to be remarkably stable, hopefully ending a century of desperate debate among anthropologists, who tried to uphold a taboo against reporting real human violence among primitive peoples. This lie -- that native humans are people and loving -- is still peddled by liberal professors who simply will not face the fact. (It should also be noted that the 1986 Seville Statement, which condemns theories that human aggression is innate, remains in effect today.)
What's wrong with lying about human nature? Well, the myth of human peacefulness has been used to support a century of Marxist tyranny, resulting in authoritatively estimated 100 million deaths. Marxist regimes, their heads filled with false assumptions, routinely conclude that if humans are naturally peaceful, and if the people and the peasants resist their tyrannical demands, then those dissenters must be evil and deserve death. One hundred million people have been murdered under that false assumption, as found by the best historical study done so far, at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Many historians working on the study consider themselves Marxists.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Lord of the Flies
On our best day.
Liberals are terrified by the reality of life!
Hitler’s Socialist Nazism murdered 20 million, Stalin’s Marxist Communism Murdered almost 70 million, Mao Tse Tung’s Marxist Communism murdered over 150 million -—
I have noticed that sometimes small kids have to be told not to hit.
Are libs born delusional?
re: if the people and the peasants resist their tyrannical demands, then those dissenters must be evil and deserve death
No where is this more evident than in the Black community.
The police, the enforcers of government coercion, make tyrannical demands of people. People resist. If they resist they must be evil and they deserve death.
The mystery is why all sides are inconsistent hypocrites. Those who argue for small government cheer tyrannical actions. and those who favor big government decry the big government they create. And the peasants most oppressed by big government vote for big government.
Why are so many of us so inconsistent?
It’s the Alpha Male thing.
The whole march towards civilization has been REPRESSION of those murderous impulses. The Strongman of the tribe got there by, well, murdering his rivals, with the implicit threat of again murdering anyone who challenges him.
The Noble Savage is just another of those myths that the Beta Males dream up to try to shame the Alpha Male into behaving.
I have noticed that sometimes small kids have to be told not to hit.Especially if they have younger siblings.
Actually, the NY Times reported that yesterday. Sad fact but true. It’s a thin line between civilization and savagery. It’s why we need ethical education for the young.
Yeah: don't murder, rape, rob, assault, do drugs, sell drugs ...
How very tryannical!
I remember a movie about the Yanamamo in a college Anthropology class. The movie did not portray them as violent.
Looks like I was fooled again...
...Are libs born delusional?....
They are born with a serious mental illness. Sometimes it doesn’t manifest until they are young adults
Well liberalism is indeed a mental illness, and that is factual
Makes sense if they plan to pitch in the American League when they grow up.
In Amerigo Vespucci's description of South America, he is surprised that the native tribes fight wars against each other, despite not having a notion of private property.
When Lewis and Clark were sent to explore the territory west of the Mississippi River, they were told to encourage the Indians to keep peace with each other. One of the Indian chiefs, when told that, was incredulous. "How will we know whom to pick for our chiefs, if we don't fight wars?"
This article makes me so angry!
Why would shame exist unless there was a Reference? That humanity knew about in spite of every attempt to suppress it from thought and mention?
There was Someone who was not only Alpha, but he also was Omega.
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