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Sunday, November 28, 2004

Origins.

This is coolbert:

Here is an interesting web site to visit. Deals with the "Origins of War".

Click here to see this site.

I have quoted from this site in the blog entry that dealt with ants and how ants are the only other creature that wages war other than man. [this may be debatable].

The author does not deal with the obvious innate aggressiveness that exists in mankind, and aggressiveness also observed in our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, chimpanzees, by the eminent naturalist, Jane Goodall.

The author seems to feel that war is an outgrowth of "civilization" and the desire of "civilized" societies to "possess" land, objects, and wealth, whatever means wealth may be measured by. Structure and organization of "civilization" leads to war. This seems to be the author's viewpoint.

Let me comment at length on this article in a further blog entry.

coolbert.

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