re: #120 Guanxi88

That’s easy. Look at the history of the Western European peoples - up until, say, 150 years ago, your average young Western European male was, at least potentially, a walking, talking god of war, sent out from his homeland to set the world aright.

A couple generations of that, and you start selecting for aggression and that sort of thing.

A flip theory, and worth exactly what it cost you to hear it.

That reminds me a bit of the chapter in “Custer Died For Your Sins”, when Vine Deloria talks about the gooey social theorist who decided that the problem with the Sioux was that they were warriors without battles to fight.

Deloria’s suggestion, riffing on this, was that they should run a wagon train through the rez right after lunch every day, and let the guys attack it, just to keep them in good psychological shape.