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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
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Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:23:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:23:15 1985
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> 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.