What is truly bizarre is lumping an advanced technology--the wheel-- with the most primitive of technologies--the stone ax.
On May 24, 2010, at 8:32 AM, c b wrote: > Carrol's vulgar materialist image of wheelwrights as only workers of > the hand, and not of the brain, talking to their apprentices, showing > them how to make wheels by dumb-speechless gestures and mime, silent > imitation... >> On 5/22/10, Carrol Cox <cb...@ilstu.edu> wrote: >>> The >>> idea of learning how to make a wheel from stories rather than >>> directly >>> from another wheelwright is nothing short of bizarre. >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> CB: Calling it bizarre is bizarre, with your grunts and snorts >> version >> of early human communication. >>> CeJ wrote: >>>> >>>>>> And stories are exactly it. In a story can be passed on to unborn >>>> generations how to make a wheel... >>>> Having a wheel or a stone axe is a big adaptive advantage over >>>> whomever you might be competing with. The wheel or how to make a >>>> stone axe may be invented by some chimp genius, but if there is >>>> no way >>>> to pass it on Shane Mage > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > kindling in measures and going out in measures." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
