To: rlmorel
Guns, Germs, And Really Crapping Thinking is sort of the Deconstruction of history. He totally assumes the people in question are non factors in what happens next. This is the only way he can reach his ultimate conclusion.
13 posted on
05/26/2005 11:52:34 AM PDT by
.cnI redruM
(McCain's home state is the newsroom of The New York Times! -Mark Steyn)
To: .cnI redruM
Part of Germs Guns and Steel I liked. The factor of epidemic diseases causing major culture changes is one thing most historians forget.
However, his flights of fancy bored me, and then it began to dawn on me that Diamond, like so many others, just likes to pontificate on everything. Comment on everything, but really think about little.
15 posted on
05/26/2005 11:57:21 AM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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