To:    Comment at the Guardian
Re:   
Is society influenced more by mankind's human nature or by his animal nature?
Date: Friday 27 October 06

In response to the following article in today's Guardian by Mark Lawson: "The pimp in the cathedral"
 

Our (modern man's) most serious (potentially fatal) misconception is that we - or at least, those eminent among us - are largely rational creatures (hence our scientific name: Homo sapiens) with a little bit of rudimentary animal nature occasionally causing us to behave badly, stupidly or irrationally. In FACT, it is the other way around. There is a rational and enlightened human side to us (or, at least, to some of us), but it is our "animal nature" that still dominates, greatly facilitated by a socio-economic order which developed from and is thus completely dependent on it.

In view of what Charles Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins, this should hardly surprise us, but like Christian fundamentalists, we are loath to face up to it.

More in this vein at http://www.spaceship-earth.org