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Old 12-27-2008, 12:26 PM   #684
C. David Henderson
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Re: The continued Evolution of Aikido

If we are going to get into a discussion of social evolution, we are going to get into another argument on terminology, as well as an argument about it's connection or lack of connection with the processes of biological evolution.

As I said many posts ago, most modern social scientists would have real problems with the idea of the Industrial Revolution as a model of progressive social evolution in a unitary direction.

No one need change her position or his position because of that fact. But it seems to me the burden of persuasion should rest with those who wish to use a theory of social change that generally has been rejected by scholars who study social change as an ideology of the Industrial Revolution.

And, that is before we get to why a generally unaccepted scientific theory sheds light on change in the martial arts.

Did Chess have to adapt to survive?

FWIW

DH