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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-04-24

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-04-08:

"The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity." -- Jared Diamond in Collapse, describing how the "social glue" of the Norse that allowed them to master Greenland's difficulties also led to their undoing.
(submitted to the mailing list by Matt Griffin)

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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 02:22pm on 2005-04-24
Jane Smiley. "The Greenlanders". It's fiction, but treads what feels like fairly close to truth. Good fiction does. And it did. The adhering to values that were impertinent to conditions was, at least there, in that story, their undoing. Mostly it looks like Catholicism.
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Hmm....

posted by [identity profile] rendancer.livejournal.com at 02:43am on 2005-04-25
i like that. it reminds me of the differences between jingoism and patriotism and what the true meaning of those words mean in the context of our current political situation. those who question authority VS those who charge blindly behind authority.
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Re: Hmm....

posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:19pm on 2005-04-25
Somehow I think we might have a fine cup of coffee together. D'G has that knack.
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