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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alice, Geoffrey Miller's piece is
exceptional.</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
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 01, 2004 11:20
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<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 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'"><O:P><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hi Lynn,</FONT></O:P></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'"><O:P><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>>What is it about the Left that makes
them so hateful? </FONT></O:P></SPAN></P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype'"><O:P><FONT
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