Is the dick heart the bit on the end? We call that the Herman Gelmet, but I guess it could look sort of like a heart if one were inclined to draw it that way on a tattoo.

:lol

lol.
im pretty sure a noble savage is somebody who takes the reasoning and intelligence of the contemporary world and lives without government; in a state of nature. ;\ oh nm its just when we live unrestrained by a society cause GUBERMENTS and rules are what causes us to be bad. OPTIMISM/ STRAIN

i call my brother in law a noble savage all the time lol :(

KK reminds me of Don Quixote. He reads romantic novels about being a fair and just person, creates an imaginary world in which to perform his noble deeds, fucks it all up in real life, and believes that people are praising him when they actually want o lock him up for being such and idiot.

Is it just me or is the term "noble savage" kind of...derogatory? Like "magical negro"?

It almost reminds me of in "Take Up the White Man's Burden", when the nonEuropean people are described as "sullen" and "half devil and half child".

not really similar at all its basically an anarchist/optimistic idea that if there were no society man would be perfect. Or, that society is what creates bad and evil people.

can somebody just gimme the cliff notes to this thread?

kthx

KK makes wordy and obliquely offensive statements.

General argument, laughter and derision from the masses.

KK whines and says he's going away.

There is much rejoicing.

I get it. Just seems a little rude the way it's put. That's probably just me though. :\

The notion of the noble savage is just horseshit. Anyone who believes it should spend a year among the Yanomano or the Korowai and see how "noble" their behavior is from our point of view.

I can say this with a certain amount of authority because I just got accepted into graduate school to get a master's in anthropology. BOOYAH! :smug

I believe he's a character.

I hate you. >:

Actually, it's anthropology I hate. >:

Why? I'm backing up the point you made. :confused:

tribes are a type of society, as such the argument could be made that they corrupt human beings.

But yea, usually people bring that type of stuff up to refute it.

Precisely. Just because a society may not be technologically advanced doesn't mean that they are as socially complex as our own.

Never thought about it. Could be. :conspiracy

That crazy Kulturkampf! He's a character all right! :lol

da hood has started to streamline things. There is now only 1 word for "to be" which is "is". Are and am are obsolete.

No no, it's not you it's anthropology. I have to take it this semester for my natural science credit and I hate it. I did really badly on the first test and I only have two others to fix it.

Anywho...

That's why the term "noble savage" bothered me. It seemed to imply that people who lived in tribes or "uncivilized" places were inferior. Europeans thought that the native Africans were "savages", but the Africans were the ones who were smelting iron and enjoying a good standard of living while Europe rotted from the Black Plague.

I assume it was physical anthropology, which I'm not to crazy about either, for the record. My area is cultural anthropology, which is a whole 'nother ball of wax.

Yes it is. Right now we're studying the physical characteristics of monkeys. Joy. :rolleyes:

Cultural does sound more fun, but physical was what fulfilled the requirement, so it is what I must take. Woot.

I'm taking physical anthropology right now too :(

It sucks, doesn't it?

Did your class have to learn how to label the parts of a lemur's tooth?

Its kind of a fun class ;o

I don't really know what you mean by label the parts of a lemurs tooth :( but we learned about TEETHS.

We had to learn about parts of molars.

We're learning about Hominidae (humans and apes) right now. I'm working on a one or two page summary of notes for them (not so bad actually).