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parable tribes cooplit power compettion

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  • ccording to the parable of the tribes, civilized peoples have been compelled to live in societies organized for the maximization of competitive power. People become the servants of their evolving systems, rather than civilized society being the instrument of its members.
  • The process is not hostile to human welfare, simply indifferent
  • Thus, while human well-being may be incidental to one major social- evolutionary force, there is room for human aspiration to dictate a part of the story.
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  • The evolution of civilization can be seen as dialectic between the systematic selection for power and the human striving for a humane world, between the necessities imposed upon humankind regardless of their wishes and their efforts to be able to choose the cultural environment in which they will live.
  • Lisa Tansey on 12 Feb 13
     
    " According to the parable of the tribes, civilized peoples have been compelled to live in societies organized for the maximization of competitive power. People become the servants of their evolving systems, rather than civilized society being the instrument of its members."
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