The arch critic of civilization, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, proclaimed indignantly that man was born free but everywhere is in chains. But if Rousseau’s contemporaries were weighed down by the chains of eighteenth-century Bourbon society, his prehistoric ancestor were weighed down by the chains of ancestral patterns that they accepted unquestioningly, never imagining the change, the self-development, and the free adaptation that became possible only with the complexity of civilization. The inescapable corollary of such “civilized” complexity is the insecurity and inequity which has ballooned to nearly intolerable proportions in our late-twentieth-century world. Insecurity and inequity, it must be emphasized, have been accompanied throughout the post-Paleolithic era by the growth of a sense of ... (查看原文)
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