Comments on: Versions of the Yanomamo https://www.isegoria.net/2014/02/versions-of-the-yanomamo/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/02/versions-of-the-yanomamo/comment-page-1/#comment-1118618 Toddy Cat Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:22:16 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=34010#comment-1118618 Yeah, I mean Curtis is right about people projecting their beliefs about human nature onto primitive people, but in fact, the Yanomamo DO exist, they DO have a nature, and one of those picture of the Yanomamo is closer to the truth than the others. The question is, which one? I’d be willing to bet that I know…

]]> By: Magus Janus https://www.isegoria.net/2014/02/versions-of-the-yanomamo/comment-page-1/#comment-1118603 Magus Janus Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:34:03 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=34010#comment-1118603 Adam Curtis is a little pathetic here, blatantly trying to draw an equivalence between the stellar academic work Napoleon Chagnon did over decades with the prior pathetic projections of the insane left.

Then again, what would you expect from a hack BBC sociologist? A recognition of the realities of sociobiology and the empirical verification of them by the premier scholar of the tribe?

Don’t make me laugh. What’s going on here is the Left, having been utterly destroyed in its loony theories is now dropping to the fall back position of “there is no truth” instead of accepting the correct view. What a joke.

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