ANT 101 Lecture 23: Pre Historic Warfare
14 Nov 2016
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Pre-historic warfare (evolved patterns and the conundrums of war and peace) We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine. For example, studying how europeans came to dominate africans enables us to realize that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the racial hierarchy, and that the world might well be arranged differently. Participants esteemed by others of their group. Social substitution governs the targeting of individuals for lethal violence. Multi-polar anarchy": no rules, no controlling authority lots of bad behavior". We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being through strife necessarily heraclitus of ephesus. War was the norm as far as the ancients were concerned. Even what most men call peace is but a name.
