ext_199690 ([identity profile] lhn.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] muckefuck 2005-04-29 07:51 pm (UTC)

We're perfectly willing to accept human variability in the face of consumer choice in our complex modern world, but somehow it couldn't have existed among our dull-witted forebearers on the primal savannah.

Can't this also be seen as the idea coming into play at more or less the same time, penetrating different fields of thought at slightly different rates? It seems as if the idea of a single optimum was on the upswing through much of the twentieth century (examples in large-scale political and economic thought are almost too obvious), and has provoked a reaction which is now itself a rising tide.

(I also haven't read enough evolutionary psychology to know if they really are pushing the idea of a one-dimensional model of better and worse genes-- I'm wary of taking an opponent's characterization of someone's position without a fair amount of salt.)

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