Re: right vs left

Posted by glen ropella on Jan 10, 2014; 10:41pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584722.html

On 01/10/2014 02:31 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Yes.  I agree.  We might get into trouble later regarding understandings of rich, but mostly it's true.  It tends to be less true in hunter gatherer groups where less dominant males tend to gang up and control their more successful colleagues.  See Boehm's Democracy in the Forest.  I think that's it.  But  ever since it became possible to store grains, sendentary societies have tended to be dominated by people who can corner the storeable resources.  
>
> In short let's go on.  

OK.  So, as a descriptive fact: "He who has the gold rules."  Now we go
back to Marcus' question: Does the aphorism mean "He who has the gold
_ought_ to rule"?  At which point, I just reiterate my response, which is:

Since all we've ever known is "He who has the gold rules", what basis
can we possibly use to say that it ought to be any other way?  What
other way is there?

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