<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 00:05 Spike Jones <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_9133341068284951283WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">We have heard of how evolutionary psychology predicts a society will engage in warfare when there is a sufficient level of collective pessimism about the future.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK, sure that makes sense in the traditional definition of warfare. But now, if we embrace the notion that modern warfare is primarily memetic and the battlefield is digital, the weapons entirely digital where none of the participants actually perish, can we extend traditional evolutionary psychology to now?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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