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In response to Guardian article, "A nice bit of sparkle: David Starkey, like many historians, is too dazzled by monarchy's power to explore it in any depth" by Hywel Williams
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article and thread at
The Guardian.
It is in man's
"animal nature" to be dazzled by power.
The most important
thing that can be learned from history is
generally missed, probably because we remain
immersed in and are ourselves very much a
product of it.
It is that with the
advent of civilisation, the "prime ape"
(excuse the pun), Homo sapiens, in its
struggle for survival and advantage, which
millions of years of evolution adapted its
behaviour to, effectively moved from the
natural environment (with included other,
rival, groups of humans) to an artificial "socio-economic
environment ", the
growth and development of which in modern
times has been exponential, with new niches
and ecotopes (industries) being created
at a dizzying pace.
When you see the
courts of Kings and Queens as groups of "Greatest
Apes " engaged in
the struggle for survival and advantage in
their "socio-economic environment" they are
much easier to understand. It also provides an
urgently required perspective on modern
society and "Greatest Ape" behaviour,
explaining why he persists in giving priority
to economics (the household of man in the
artificial socio-economic environment) instead
of to ecology (the household of the planet in
the natural environment) when it is obvious
(were he not blinded by familiarity and
dependency) that medium and long-term human
survival demands the opposite.
My homepage:
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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