Cultures, Wars, Wiping Asses off the Planet

[MantaRay at aol.com]

I'll field this one:

>Is it so much "our own culture's misguided tendency" to wipe other
>peoples' asses off the planet or is that just a side-effect of the
>Technology (i.e. fire-power) we have?

To call it misguided is to deny the so-called progress of so-called civilized
nations. That's for Murthy. It is, at least according to Hegel, Lacan et al.
the tendency to dominate the Other that is specifically cultural. I'm not
being an apologist, just looking clearly at what's been happening before and
during my short 27 years on the planet.  To assume that one creates the
other, Culture creates Tech or vice-versa is to capitulate to an urge to
locate a problem rather than trying to fix it. Technology and Culture are
always in flux, one is as equally responsible as the other for the
degradation of the planet, destruction of peoples etc. etc. . Remember, He
who dies with the most (war) toys wins. So I would have to answer, to the
above question:

"It's both."

But to call this urge "misguided" is a major underestimation of,  in Diana
York Blaine's, the masculinist double desire of domination and recognition. 

MantaRay