[kj] ot: We Want Everyone - Facebook & The New American Right

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not 
part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the 
social process that creates man,"

-- Erich Fromm,  _Escape from Freedom_



-Oliver




GREG SLAWSON wrote:

> We are able to choose behaviors that go way beyond remnants of our 

> evolution. In fact, we often  choose behaviors that are worse than 

> those related to our animal roots--e.g., invading other countries. SO 

> i think it's a mistake to say that we are programmed to be mean, when 

> humans can display a huge range of behavior. The point is to develop a 

> culture in which mutually cooperative behaviors are chosen (and I know 

> you'll probably say that what's good for one person is bad for 

> another, etc. but i think working for the collective good actually 

> works best).