Re: Beyond the Savanna Mentality




JAE wrote:
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> > I've read your writings there. I wasn't impressed and neither was
> > anyone else you corresponded with. While you're overly impressed with
> > your own "mastery" you appear to be alone in this opinion. There are a
> > few possibilities. A) you're nuts and deluding yourself, B) everyone
> > else you ever encounter is a mental midget and you and only you have
> > the intellectual capacity to understand what it is you're putting
> > forward on a variety of subjects including genetic drift. I'm taking
> > the more parsimonious route, that you are mistaken and deluding
> > yourself.

....
> > Clearly, you have a problem either in
> > that you do not have a brilliant hypothesis or you are indeed a poor
> > communicator (coupled with being somewhat of a jerk whose response to
> > criticism is to call people jackasses and tell them they're too stupid
> > to stand near the shadows of the great McGinn) or I suspect some
> > combination of both.

....

>
> My reluctance to attempt to publish is a result of the fact that every
> anthropologist I've come across is cut from the same cloth as you.

Hmm, yes. Skeptical. Clear-thinking. Questioning. Clever even.

Traits that the McGinnster has great difficulty in countering, despite
his self-evident genius...

Ross Macfarlane

> > The game is over, McGinn.
Jason Eshleman, 5-Oct-2005

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