Monday, April 18, 2005

Here's an un-PC understanding of Harmony with...

...Nature. One I agree with tho. Don Boudreaux in Cafe Hayek:
let’s stop mistaking ignorance and poverty with harmony. It’s an utter myth – we might say an urban myth – that primitive peoples lived with nature harmoniously. Nature devastated them. Nature battered them into early graves. Their ignorance of nature prevented them from achieving much material wealth. To dance to imaginary rain gods or to chant and pray for a child dying of bacterial infection is not to live harmoniously with nature; it is to live most inharmoniously. ...It is science – rational thought, skepticism, critical inquiry – that furthers greater harmony with nature.
It didn't take long for the Maori to hunt the giant moa to extinction, either.

Here's the whole thing.

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