Re: The Ignoble Savage
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Re: The Ignoble Savage         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Immortalist
Date: Sep 4, 2008 23:04

On Sep 4, 10:30 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
> "Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational,
> brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his
> wn interests are involved - that about sums it up. I'm interested in
> the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of
> him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of
> the nature of man is probably doomed to failure." - Stanley Kubrick
>
> This is such a great quote.
>
> Let us remember that:
> "**ANY** attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the
> nature of man is probably doomed to failure."
>
> And that includes other nations...
>
> And that we should be:
> "interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a
> true picture of him."
>
> dot dot dot

If these behaviors are parts of our nature and there are other less
violent parts of our nature why are some parts of our nature good and
others bad?
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