Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED Message-ID: <2088@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:23:15 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2088 Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:23:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 02:46:25 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP>, <972@mnetor.UUCP> <5703@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 . . . > The western nations did not reach their position of economic and cultural > dominance by trampling others (although once they reached it there was > indeed quite a bit of trampling). They reached it by a form of natural > selection: they developed a culture that was better suited to rapid > progress and internal economic growth than the world's other cultures. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The undoubted evils perpetrated against some developing societies by > some western entities should not blind us to this. > -- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry I don't think this is precisely true. The type of economy we are talking about *requires* constant expansion and *external* markets. Originally external may have meant the next village/town however eventually a country's economy reached it's limits and economic/physical domination of other cultural/economic entities became a necessity for the (required) continued expansion. Social Darwinism is a dangerous paradigm.