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To:    Guardian CiF
Re:   State and economic interest in national and global miscegenation
Date: Sunday 15 July   07

 

In response to the article, ". . .  a possible future in which there is only one race" by Timothy Garton Ash.

Link to article and thread at The Guardian.

In the past it was largely geography which determined where a person belonged, and everyone was subject - whether they liked it or not - to the "law (including customs and traditions) of the land" they lived in, and had generally been born in, like their ancestors before them.

The power structures that arose (for the primary purpose of "exploiting" society, as an artificial socio-economic replacement of the natural environment, to the Darwinian, dumb-animal, advantage of its ruling elites) developed into the world's modern nation states, which now everyone is totally dependent on and eager to exploit to their own personal advantage. No amount of emphasizing how much the state SERVES society can change the fact that its principal purpose is still to exploit it.

The ruling and privileged elites have changed and been greatly broadened, so that in theory, at least, in the West, everyone is now "free" to exploit society as originally only the aristocracy and clergy were. TGA is doing very well for himself, but would be horrified, I suspect, at the suggestion that primarily, from an evolutionary and anthropological perspective, he is simply "exploiting" the "socio-economic environment" to his own advantage, as of course evolution adapted human nature and behaviour to do, only (but of monumental significance) in the natural environment, which the former has effectively replaced.

What I'm getting at here is that TGA, like all academics, belongs to a privileged elite with an even greater interest than most in the power structures of the nation state - which essentially and implicitly is what he is defending in the above article (i.e. the Brazilian state).

The power structures of the state take precedence over race (thus the state's interest in eliminating it through miscegenation), despite race being a far more natural social grouping, less (far less, I suggest) prone to exploitation.

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