Bonobo in Water: Why Have Americans Spent So Much on War Historically, and with No Return?, Learn from Millions of Years-old Bonobo?, "The little book of Bonobo for People: Insights into Bonobo Philosophy" ?

Why have Americans been willing to spend so much of their tax dollars (around 50%) historically on war-related efforts, when it seems to me to amount to a complete loss ... money flowing out of the country, - a total sink. Why have the public and media been so unsuccessful at transforming this? What's a history of why Americans have been willing to spend irrationally on wars far away?

This may have changed with the American War in Vietnam, when the American public's distaste for seeing body bags on TV gave rise to significantly less mortality in wars since then. But history can often repeat itself, and war has much precedent.


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What could Kanzi, the Bonobo, teach us (humans) about Bonobo ways of thinking? I wonder if Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a Bonobo researcher who works with Kanzi, might write at some point something like "The little book of Bonobo for People: Insights into Bonobo Philosophy," or help Kanzi to write it, through logo-graph quotes.




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Could humans learn from another primate species about peaceableness? Bonobo seem to harm very little ... and this has taken shape over millions of years.

(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonobo-in-water-why-have-americans.html - November 15, 2009)