From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 07:58:32 EDT
In a message dated 8/13/03 9:25:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com writes:
> Need we speak of Ms.
> Mead?
>
>
According to Kevin MacDonald in The Culture of Critique, Mead was a tool of
Franz Boas who wanted humanity presented as intrinsically good in a state of
nature. Boasian historical particularism postulated that you couldn't say
anything about anyone until you knew everything about everyone, effectively
preventing anyone from saying anything definitive about human culture also preventing
the acceptance of general laws that might govern human culture. There were no
general laws such as selection governing human behavior. Of course, he seems
to have deliberately led everyone and encouraged Mead's work in Samoa which
later turned out to be as faulty as Boasian anthropology.
rich
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