tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post2117586551446586092..comments2024-03-29T04:05:35.407-07:00Comments on We Live In A Political World: #44 / Human NatureGary A. Pattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-10089933806935798262014-02-13T12:53:37.159-08:002014-02-13T12:53:37.159-08:00Have to agree with you there! Have to agree with you there! Gary A. Pattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15049925834933920507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611639517962742486.post-33692489614791802572014-02-13T11:50:11.710-08:002014-02-13T11:50:11.710-08:00There are two aspects of human nature: cultural he...There are two aspects of human nature: cultural heritage and the bell curve of human behavior.<br /><br />Humans exhibit a wide variety of behaviors, ranging from extremes of altruism to extremes of selfishness. There is no universal human behavior.<br /><br />Culture mitigates the range of human behavior, encouraging some behaviors and rewarding others. The differences among the differing ways of cultural management of behavior is what distinguished one society from another.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the dominant culture today emphasizes and rewards personal and societal consumption, individualism, separation from nature, commodification of all resources for human profit and consumption. In our economic systems, natural resources are considered "free" to use for private profit, and all costs of using those resources are externalized from the economy.<br /><br />In other words, we've overpopulated the house without paying the rent.<br /><br />This cannot continue.Michael A. Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980105313542633114noreply@blogger.com