From: "Lionel Boxer" <lboxer-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Violence as a Struggle Against Weakness Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:48:42 +1100 <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <DIV></DIV>> Professor Jorge M. Roche refines my metaphor "Warfare as Submission" by </DIV> <DIV></DIV>>suggesting that if my hypothesis is correct, "What we might empirically <DIV></DIV>>expect is that those individuals who are more submissive are also more likely <DIV></DIV> <P>>to be more aggressive than less submissive ones."</P> <P>That makes sense. Submissive individuals are easier to coerce. I would not say that is the same as weaker individuals. My feeling is that a homogenous social context contributes to docility, utility and governmentality. When exernal influences dilute a homogenous social context stability declines:</P> <P>- Japan in the past 10 years</P> <P>- Western society in the past 50 years </P> <P>The question is how are people made to </P></div><br clear=all><hr>STOP MORE SPAM with <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMKEN/2015">the new MSN 8</a> and get 2 months FREE*</html>
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