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	<title>Monkeymagic &#187; despair</title>
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		<title>The 21st Century Learning Initiative Blog &#187; The Evolution of Despair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piers Young</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[despair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 14 years since Time Magazine published The Evolution of Despair, by Robert Wright, the rapidly rising star of the new discipline of evolutionary psychology.  [It] attracted great attention.  As an evolutionary psychologist, he quoted the Unabomber &#8211; the man who, as his personal demonstration against the dehumanising aspects of modern life, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It was 14 years since Time Magazine published The Evolution of Despair, by Robert Wright, the rapidly rising star of the new discipline of evolutionary psychology.  [It] attracted great attention.  As an evolutionary psychologist, he quoted the Unabomber &ndash; the man who, as his personal demonstration against the dehumanising aspects of modern life, conducted a seven-year bombing spree across America in the 1980s: &ldquo;I attribute the social and psychological problems of modern society to the fact that society requires people to live under conditions radically different from those under which the human race evolved.&rdquo;<br />
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There is, Wright wrote, a gentler side to human nature and it is this which seems to be increasingly the victim of repression; &ldquo;The problem with modern life is less that we are over-socialised,&rdquo; he wrote, but that we are under-socialised &ndash; or that too little of our &lsquo;social&rsquo; contact is social in the natural, intimate sense of the word.&rdquo;</p></blockquote>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.21learn.org/activities/blog/archives/258">here</a></p>
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