"Backs to the future"

Jeff Wilson · 16 Jun 2006, 04:53 · from 2006-June.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:53:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Backs to the future"
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Transentient wrote:

> On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
>>James Machin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The following article might be of interest to the list (for obvious
>>>reasons!)...
>>>
>>>http://www.physorg.com/news69338070.html
>>
>>I've seen this claimed for classical Attic cultures as well; IIRC as
>>recently as "It's Greek to Me" (Paperback)
>>by Michael Macrone, Tom Lulevitch
> 
> 
> There has been a big resurgence of popularity of the Sapir-Whorf  
> hypothesis among anthropology types lately. 

I think this is more in Skinner's area, myself. Certainly Greeks and 
Romans were conditioned to see the past as a place of glory and names 
forever remembered, with the future a mysterious, unseen place from 
which fate and misfortune could strike unforseen, as if stabbing from 
behind.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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