Marc | July 13, 2010
In the previous part of this series, I really concentrated on the environment of role expectations and especially, on the boundaries of these. As I was reading the CBC.ca news this morning, I found a story that just illustrated many of the points I made in the last post, especially the points about communications and [...]
Marc | July 11, 2010
In the part 1, I tried to establish certain guidelines for how I am looking at ethics, morality and, to a much lessor degree, group dynamics surrounding these issues. The overarching model I use for this is taken fairly directly from Wm. Calvin’s work on Darwinian bootstrapping (op.cit.) which I have found to be both [...]
Marc | July 10, 2010
This set of posts is a first cut at integrating some ideas I have been working on in one form or another for several years now. While I am really interested in the general case of the evolution of moral and ethical systems within groups, for this specific set of posts, I will only be [...]
Marc | August 30, 2009
This is a question that has been gnawing at me for some time now. Recently, two totally different events came together for me, and I wanted to take some time to reflect on what it might be.
Marc | April 7, 2009
I have been insanely busy since I got back from Monterey. What has made the situation so frustrating is that the vast majority of the busyness is things that I have been waiting for to happen. My body, however, decided that I needed a rest so, along with two of my bass colleagues in the [...]
Marc | March 9, 2009
When I was growing up, vacations used to mean getting away from it all. Not any more… When Leslie and I head off tomorrow, we will be carrying two laptops plus the usual electronic suspects (and our dog… the cat stays here). Indeed, almost half of the pre-vacation shopping consisted of getting electroic paraphenalia.
Marc | March 5, 2009
The more I look at modern US / Coalition military thinking, the more I reminded of Rome. This might be because I spent several months last fall looking at how they conceptualized and used ethnographic / cultural knowledge, but I have a feeling that the factors leading to the paralels are somewhat deeper; at the [...]
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