Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lessons were too easily learned. Politics is as complex as society itself and we are now beginning to discover in the streets of Teheran and the closed factories in Youngstown, that peace is not an absolute value and that managing an economy is more difficult than we supposed. I am not arguing for the opposite of these policies: "send in the Marines" is as simplistic a principle as "no more Vietnams." But at a minimum, the 1980s should be a time when we re-evaluate the lessons of Vietnam and learn to distinguish the errors we made there from...
...same radio techniques produced repeatedly surprising discoveries of rather complex molecules in the murky recesses of interstellar space. Now totaling more than 50 in number, many of these modecules are complex enough to be of some interest to biochemists. Theorists remain mystified about the severely non-terrestrial conditions that give rise to such a pharmaceutical array of chemicals, yet it does not seem inconceivable that they could be mere fragments of even larger molecules thus far undiscovered. If so, then the most startling revelation of all may be that what was once though to be a galactic wasteland is really...
Phillips: No. No more. The whole question of political position today is complex, unresolved. The classic Left solutions don't work. People who repeat the radical catechisms of the past show they aren't thinking...
...Tooby goes on from here to an even stranger point: "the use of sociobiology by the European New Right is the direct result of and responsibility of SftP and others who have misrepresented this diverse and complex field." Presumably, he is charging that SftP has drawn political conclusions from the field of sociobiology where none are implied. But, in fact, political conclusions of sociobiology are repeatedly articulated by the advocates of this field. In addition to the original texts, one need only read the various popular accounts and interviews with sociobiologists referred to above. For example, E.O. Wilson has stated...