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<DIV>Hi Gerry...Glad you liked! </DIV>
<DIV>Lots of femme energy on paleo these days--I like it! ; )</DIV>
<DIV>My best to you!</DIV>
<DIV>Alice</DIV>
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<A title=waluk@earthlink.net href="mailto:waluk@earthlink.net">Geraldine
Reinhardt</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=paleopsych@paleopsych.org
href="mailto:paleopsych@paleopsych.org">paleopsych@paleopsych.org</A> ; <A
title=aandrews@hvc.rr.com href="mailto:aandrews@hvc.rr.com">Alice Andrews</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2004 2:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paleopsych] demons</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alice, Geoffrey Miller's piece is
exceptional.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>>>More subtley, because mating is a
social game in which the attractiveness of a behavior depends on how many
other people are already producing that behavior, political ideology evolves
under the unstable dynamics of game theory, not as a process of simple
optimization given a set of self-interests.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This explains why an entire student
body at an American university can suddenly act as if they care deeply about
the political fate of a country that they virtually ignored the year
before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The courtship arena
simply shifted, capriciously, from one political issue to another, but once a
sufficient number of students decided that attitudes towards apartheid were
the acid test for whether one’s heart was in the right place, it became
impossible for anyone else to be apathetic about apartheid.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is called frequency-dependent
selection in biology, and it is a hallmark of sexual selection processes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> >></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>I often wonder why an entire student body grabs a social
issue that shortly before was not considered of interest to others on
campus. With our upcoming election the majority of college students are
siding with Kerry probably because he protested the Viet Nam war after he
had won his medals including three purple hearts. It could
be "a hallmark of sexual selection processes" as Geoffrey
Miller suggests or it could be the effects of a collective consciousness
in action.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Thanks again for "Political
Peacocks".</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Gerry </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>Gerry Reinhart-Waller<BR>Independent Scholar<BR><A
href="http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk">http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk</A></DIV>
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<A title=aandrews@hvc.rr.com href="mailto:aandrews@hvc.rr.com">Alice
Andrews</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2004 11:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paleopsych] demons</DIV>
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<DIV>Lynn! Thank you for such kind words re the beginning of my
'Evolutionary Mind' piece..."Mouth-watering" makes me want to keep on with
it! So thanks...</DIV>
<DIV>All best,</DIV>
<DIV>Alice</DIV>
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<DIV>ps If you've never seen, you may enjoy Geoffrey Miller's
"Political Peacock's"</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/political_peacocks.htm">http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/political_peacocks.htm</A></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ljohnson@solution-consulting.com
href="mailto:ljohnson@solution-consulting.com">Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D.</A>
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title=paleopsych@paleopsych.org
href="mailto:paleopsych@paleopsych.org">The new improved paleopsych
list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2004 11:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paleopsych]
demons</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Alice, sounds like you have a fascinating manuscript in the
works! What you have sent is really mouth-watering. <BR><BR>Alice may be
onto something here. They do see themselves as underdogs. This justifies
the more radical responses. Of course, since the days of LBJ in the Senate
(see Master of the Senate by Caro), the Dems have enjoyed a majority,
basically until mid-Clinton. During the the LBJ presidency and the 70s the
left was clearly ascendent. Now they seem to be diminishing, and
demographics seem to portend nothing but trouble for the Left.<BR><BR>I
recall my hippy friends in the late 60s saying 'when the revolution comes'
and I always wondered why we would revolt, since I thought we had the
greatest country in the world by far. I thought, "Oh, oh, If the
revolution comes, I will have to fight my own friends." Even then
there was a deep streak of hate and violence. Tom Hayden clearly wanted
people to die in Chicago in 68. I wonder if it isn't also the notion that
'the system is rotten' and therefore one is justified in violence, lies,
and any other mechanism. My own experience with the Left in the 60s left
me wondering what they were thinking and why they were so angry. I think
it is the Marxist underpinnings. Paul Johnson's <I>Intellectuals</I>
helped me see the personal life of Marx and how it corrupted his political
views. <BR><BR>Thanks for the food for thought!<BR>Lynn<BR><BR>Alice
Andrews wrote:<BR>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi Lynn,</FONT></O:P></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>>What is it about the Left that makes
them so hateful? </FONT></O:P></SPAN></P><SPAN
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