Too Long Comment Reply

So, in intellectualizing away the emotional response to disaster, i mused that our reaction to disaster, disaster being a sudden change in state for the worse, was culturally bound to our sense of what is ours, what we own, what we need.

It's a theme in some science fiction: how the water planet culture in "A Door into Ocean" responds to the environmental storms that wreck the rafts offers a model of response to disaster, but arguably modified humans aren't human.

seawasp nicely continued in the intellectual speculation vein and replied, "I would agree that if an entire culture had that [the coat parable] internalized you'd have very different actions. You'd also have, I suspect, a nonhuman culture. It's possible to be much less object/material focused than the (for example) current USA culture is, but I seriously doubt you can get a human culture that really doesn't have any attachment to dividing ownership of things-that-are-not-free. "

I disagreed, but my comment of 4607 characters exceeded the maximum character length of 4300. So here it is. ( long by the Live Journal cultural definition of excess 307 characters. )

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