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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
 


Good and Evil 



I always check out Arts & Letters for a decent essay. Today I came across a site I have never seen before called nthposition.com, with this essay, Evil and its discontents: a 21st Century bestiary, by Stephen Chan, which tackles current world events as if Manichean.

Stephen is, if I have got the right Chan - of which there are probably many millions- this one . His academic biography is here.

He may be a professor but he really hasn't followed this through to the bitter end. I think he would have been best served by turning to more basic questions of the IN-GROUP DRIVE, which I endlessly refer to because I feel it so important in explaining why we have clashes of civilisations or any other type of battle between one group and another, of whatever size or complexity of ideas.

  Tuesday, July 06, 2004
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