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Diogenes was that kind of guy, and the Cynics were that kind of folk. It is crucial to understand, though, that the Cynics, as crude as they were (Diogenes was found masturbating in the marketplace), were not immoral. The Cynics practiced a rugged morality, despising the easy life, greed, hatred and class division...
...attitude, unfortunately, is typical of much of the white establishment that persists in denying the impact of discrimination by ignoring evidence of racism and by seeking to apologize for it. He seeks to excuse yet another offensive incident at Texaco (a black woman was given a birthday cake featuring crude references to watermelon) by describing it bizarrely as "well meaning but racist...
...have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done." Translation: the ends justify the means. When criticized about her role in the crude U.S. campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Albright responds, "At times it was a little messy, but I'm really proud of what happened there. I think we delivered to the U.S. and the U.N." She justifiably claims credit for sweet-talking the U.N. into blessing Washington's invasion of Haiti, the first time the U.N. ever approved a U.S. military intervention...
Whites, who appear to be leftovers from McMurtry's Pulitzer-prizewinning novel, Lonesome Dove, are no less crude. The local Beck clan is ruled by an ancient maniac named White Sut, who keeps a sow bear on a chain and beats the animal daily with a fence post. One day the bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck...
Paleontologists don't pretend to know everything about how Homo erectus lived, but it's a safe bet the ancient prehumans passed their days in unremarkable ways. Their language was probably little more than a system of gestures and grunts. Their diet, consisting of foraged fruits and crudely cooked animals, was not an easy one to force down--if the attachment points on their skulls for stout chewing muscles and their large front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose...