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Whoa... I try and start a nice, non-acrimonious thread about recursion, and
what do I find? Sniping left and right!

People outraged over the new American Anthropologist! People flaming John
McReery for working in the private sector! People blasting each other over
a curriculum examining connections between sex and violence!

I NEED MY ASBESTOS SUIT!?! Come on, people, can't we get along?

As anthropologists, we try and understand differences among human beings.
So why are we so unable to understand the differences among ourselves?

Some of us are in the "pomo" tribe. Others of us are in the "anthro IS a
science and should act like it damnit" tribe. Some of us are in the
"applied" tribe and others are in the "theory" tribe. We see through the
sham of ethnic nationalism because our subjects don't always occupy the
same ethnic group from birth to death. But we seem to forget that WE move
through boundaries too. Rather than adopting the rigid, inflexible
positions of demagogues and ethnic nationalists, we might remember that
ours is a fluid (intellectual) world also. Flame not, for you may find
yourself on the other side of that flamethrower someday.

Now broadcasting to you from the neocortex, with texture from the limbic system,



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