[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Do you think such a response to crisis is "human nature" or merely a form >of behavior that is specific to social-historical conditions that prevail >in this country? Who knows for sure, but I suspect that a certain tendency to ignore unpleasantness or underestimate risk or to seal oneself off from danger is "human nature," whatever that is, but that capitalism, especially American capitalism, brings those tendencies to the forefront, to the occlusion of more cooperative and sympathetic approaches. Doug
