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Decoding the Gurus
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The Cultural Anthropologists Are Unfavorable
Cultural anthropologists are unfavorable. The implication of their reasoning is that if it's natural, it's good,. If it's been around for a long time, from a cultural level, it is therefore allso good. So this sotive connects to your point about this set of eighteenth century burcian conservatism. In some circumstances, you don't want just make changes to systems because they might have evolved or developed in ways which you haven't quite grasped. And so we should always ask why something is there before you remove it and change it. It seems like what's wrong with evolutionary psychologial pop evolutionary psychology ist in those direct causal connections in every case between ah, you
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