Comments on: We’re just savvy monkeys, you savvy? Actually, not *even* savvy monkeys… http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/were-just-savvy-monkeys-you-savvy-actually-not-even-savvy-monkeys/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dwighttowers http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/were-just-savvy-monkeys-you-savvy-actually-not-even-savvy-monkeys/#comment-4497 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:00:22 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=5211#comment-4497 When I was on my way to Mozambique in 1992, we spent a night with some (very white) South Africans in Jo’burg. They told, in disbelief, of a servant’s relative who came and chopped down a fruit tree “not even near a fence – right in the middle of our yard” as fire wood. I think they were very blind to the element of political theatre in that… We see what we want to, what we need to. And we don’t see the Other as having their own logic, their own cosmology. We find it very hard to be “bi-cognitive” or even ” bi-cultural”. And as for understanding across species boundaries. Well, westerners I think gave up on that in the aftermath of Descartes….

]]> By: Antonio Dias http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/were-just-savvy-monkeys-you-savvy-actually-not-even-savvy-monkeys/#comment-4491 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:01:35 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=5211#comment-4491 Thanks for the link and quote!

Good match-up too. “Savvy Monkeys…”

Tony

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