HOMO NON INTELLIGENDO FIT OMNIA: DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE AND THEIR
IMPLICATIONS
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> Gian:
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> >I assume that human cultures (I am no socyologist, you know, but I
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> >some manuals back at the University) are similar, in some respects, to
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> >human ages of an individual.
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"No way", I thought to myself. I'm not gonna touch this with a ten foot
pole. Think of your blood pressure, think of the hair loss. Just let it go,
eschew it, it's not a troll... it wasn't meant for you.
Gian, please please please go and read some encyclopedia articles on 'society', 'culture', 'anthropology' or 'sociology'. Read a little on that great Italian scholar Giambattista Vico, who 'invented' the study of human society and culture back in the seventeenth century. One of his more incisive and pertinent remarks - "It is in NOT understanding that Man creates his world".
I can only concur with Mik Raaterova's measured reply on this. And grit my teeth. :)
> >How can you define a human culture? By two dimensions, I assume.
> >Geography and Language.
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I don't think your idea should be wasted. It's got a lot of GAME potential.
Its very MGF Glorantha. It flies! Assume some younger-son aristocrat Lunar
scholar at the Glamour Institute of Lunar Thaumatology and Barbarian
Vivisection has gotten it written into official Lunar policy. This ain't
augury, it's science. At last, a realistic way of defining and understanding
barbarians!
A bunch of bureaucrats, census takers, 7Mums social worker nuns and puzzled infantry get to implement it in your local neck of the [Orlanthi] woods. The Kinder, Gentler Face of the Empire, cause now we understand you. There's a scenario here, I can smell it...
Cheers,
John
nysalor_at_primus.com.au John Hughes
Havamal 86.
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