Show threadChris BoeseDec 18, 2022
@brianklaas Sounds a bit Neo-Victorian and all #GreatChainOfBeing doesn’t it? Maybe Neal Stephenson got it right #TheDiamondAge #bookstodon
bs2Jun 8, 2022
> we tend to think of the world in terms of the #GreatChainOfBeing. So apes are kind of less evolved than humans, which is totally false. Just as bees are not #LessEvolved apes. We’ve all evolved the same amount of time; we’ve just evolved in different ways. But this intuitive conception that somehow we are the #RulingSpecies..
https://chomsky.info/20130524/
#NoamChomsky statement on modern views and visualization by #NakamuraKeiko #BioHistory #Emaki #中村佳子 #FratelliTutti
https://www.brh.co.jp/en/publication/cards/papercraft/004/
Noam Chomsky – “Beyond Fascism” | Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Holder and Doug Morris

The Noam Chomsky Website.

Show threadbs2Jun 8, 2022
@curlydave
Here's the ref thanks to chomsky.info. Search engines ignore Znet. Had to remember fascism in title:
> we tend to think..in terms of the #GreatChainOfBeing. So apes are.. #LessEvolved than humans, which is totally false. Just as bees are not less evolved apes. We’ve all evolved the same amount of time; we’ve just evolved in different ways. But this intuitive conception that somehow we are the ruling species … and then of course it differentiates further..
https://chomsky.info/20130524/
Noam Chomsky – “Beyond Fascism” | Noam Chomsky interviewed by John Holder and Doug Morris

The Noam Chomsky Website.