Re: oldest American skull found!
From: Erik A. Mattila (emattila_at_oco.net)
Date: 10/11/04
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:56:57 -0700
Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
> "Erik A. Mattila" wrote:
>
>>pwilson wrote:
>>
>>>Erik A. Mattila emattila@oco.net wrote:
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yes, and I get the creeps looking at Egyptian mummies too. It's
>>>>probably the "creeps" because of my own internal conflict - on the one
>>>>hand it fascinating (and probably perverse) but on the other hand the
>>>>idea that the "long sleep" has been violated. It's like seeing animals
>>>>working out their angst in a zoo cage - little behaviors that only serve
>>>>to make incarceration bearable.
>>>
>>>
>>>So you equate the plight of caged animals with the 'plight' of mummies on
>>>display in a museum?
>>>
>>>That's bizzare. And kind of demented.
>>
>>But you're not making the connection, wilson. It's "display." What are
>>zoos? Recreation designed to entertain folks by plucking animals out of
>>the context of their lives for the purpose of exhibition. In other
>>words, it's a spectacle, and it is impoverished and shallow, as
>>spectacles regularly are.
>>
>>Didn't Alfred North Whitehead warn us against this a century or so ago?
>
>
> I _liked_ going to the zoo when I was a kid... :(
Well, many enjoy watching television. That doesn't make it profound,
educational, or even worthwhile.
>
> I guess the Political Correctness has gone completely out of
> control lately... It's a New Puritanism, folks, all dressed
> up in righteous gobbledegook, of course...
It's not a PC issue at all. It's an aesthetic issue. But then, I see
you like to pigeonhole ideas into handy categories and then argue
against the category.
>
> Yuri.
>
> Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku
>
> "Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
> --- W. Allen
>
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