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Originally Posted by peter12
Absolutely. Although I think it's different, but somehow the same. When politics is the domain of knaves and fools, this is the result we get. I was struck by something the other day. In a twisted way, the Final Solution was a brilliant piece of organization. The amount of techonological and logistic innovation that went into it was amazing. The thing was, its purpose was to eliminate 60 000 Jews a day. Not only is that incredibly evil, it's stupid. Imagine if that effort had been placed elsewhere?
Evil is often combined with a malevolent and almost childlike stupidity.
How can Africans be "less-evolved" than we are. We're of the same genetic stock. As you said, the so-called master race committed even worse crimes.
What I was trying to do was set out on a real discussion of what civilization is and what primitivism is, not engage in a series of meaningless polemic debates on liberal hurt feelings and perceived racism.
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Fair enough...if we do say that "Africans" as a whole have generally more primitive cultural behaviours than us (I don't necessarily agree, but lets go with it), do you think that their struggles with colonialism might have affected their ability to modernize or become less culturaly primitive?
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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