Originally Posted by JAPOV
Wow... Are all liberals truly so short sighted? Do none of you realize just how young America is or remember the tyranny we fought to free ourselves from 250yrs ago, which ultimately resulted in the abolition of slavery.....?

Oh, sorry.... I forgot. None of that is part of the curriculum anymore.... All the slavers moved to DC and rewrote the history books.... No wonder you believe that you crawled out of the sea and then fell out of a tree.....


Tony,

My lyric is simply an extension of the ideas in the Scientific American article, but exaggerated to such a degree that it's satirical, cartoonish, and purposely absurd: that cavemen were basically at odds over the same issues we are today. Meant to be a funny concept.

Some might find that article absurd to begin with, cuz it attempts to prove a rather tall premise. If you remember initially I was joking with FD that his premise sounded like an Enquirer headline that read, "Scientists discover liberal and conservative genes!" --and then whattyaknow...scientists were actually making a case for this!

On a serious note, that article did help me understand that both nature and nurture are working together, I think. Nurture guides our specific choices, while nature tends to gravitate us in one general direction or another.

I was trying to keep in the initial spirit of this thread, which was to use satire in a fanciful setting. That's all. The lyric was intended to be humorous and bi-partisan and I'm sorry you didn't find it so.

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 09/26/19 11:30 PM.
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