Re: [ossig] WHY DO SOME SOCIETIES MAKE DISASTROUS DECISIONS?

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

My Google did it, though:
(and so did Amazon)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571216404/qid%3D1051292790/sr%3D2-2/ref%3Dsr%5F2%5F3%5F2/026-4861599-7319612

Don't bash me if you don't like it. As I mentioned, I didn't read it. We
only took it as a signal to see the review in the Star.
Soul Searching seems to have started. Look at the parallel thread !

And try this:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gauguin/where.jpg.html

Uwe


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 16:32, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my> writes:
> 
> > Did you by chance read that book (I didn't) with the title like 'Why the
> > west has always won' or '...always wins' ? It was reviewed a few weeks
> > ago in - I think - The Star.
> 
> Not sure  if this is  it (  don't read the  Star and neither  Google nor
> Amazon found anything ), but  Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" is
> an  excellent  treatment  of  the environmental  advantages  that  early
> Fertile Crescent and then European societies had over their competitors.
> It's   a  fascinating   investigation,  purely   academic   and  neutral
> (i.e. doesn't equate success with conquest nor does it attribute success
> to social factors)  but the author does some fine  writing about how the
> lack of local  predators to thin the buffalo herds  in North America put
> the  American Indians  at a  great long-term  disadvantage and  what the
> geographical  fragmentation  of  Europe   meant  for  the  prospects  of
> persistent  hegemony in Europe.   Much better  writing than  *I'm* doing
> trying to  describe it ;) Anyway,  is this the book  you're thinking of?
> Great anthropology/biology/history stuff.  
> 
> -- 
> % You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
>   Christopher DeMarco
>   cdemarco@fastmail.fm
>   +6013 389 5658
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