[extropy-chat] What is "war" (was: My Dilemma)

[steven mckenzie]

we get an adrenalin rush when we hear war, we, as
humans seem to like a good scrap,
i remember a little novel I think called duende meadow
it plot in brief a group of physicists were able to
place a group of people in a parallel dimension, still
connected to earth,when they returned Russia appears
to have invaded the USA
got the people all hot and bothered especially ,
then they kept hearing about having to produce crops
for the great war and decide they have to stop these
evil Russians,
the short of it
Russia took over the USA after we wiped ourselves off,
were using the cropland to fight a great war against
hunger in Africa
we use words to try so hard to communicate, we always
need a context
and what would we need to change our concpet of war as
good to a concept of war as bad

--- Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:

> At 12:35 AM 7/10/2006 -0700, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
> 
> snip
> 
> >What, precisely, makes war "war"?
> 
> snip
> 
> You might be interested in my take on it (if you
> have not already read it)
> 
> Evolutionary Psychology, Memes and the Origin of War
> 
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/17/194059/296
> 
> I think you could sort out wars, riots, and related
> that are caused by 
> activating the evolved mechanism that induced our
> remote ancestors to make 
> war on neighboring bands (for good reason).
> 
> You can make a good case that war is not
> particularly adaptive for culture 
> above hunter gatherers, see the discussion about
> corn farmers in the 
> American Southwest.
> 
> Keith Henson
> 
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