Photo: http://blog.marshillchurch.org/2010/02/01/free-haiti-photos/
One year after the quake. The way of living in Haiti does not seem to cange significantly. What kind of social process may occur therefore in the Haitian society, especially in the camps for homeless refugees?
Thomas Hobbes, a political philosopher from the XVI century, argued that without a strong gouvernment unlimited violance would spread out in the country. So real power would downscore to the very local area - to the groups of weaponed violent men, more or less organised in gangs. As a result: deprivation of everything which can have any value, and destruction if it cannot be heisted, (it is reported, that gangs detroyed even showers in refugee camps, actually without any reason ), mass rapes of women, lawlessness.
This way of living Hobbes called the 'natural state'. He belived - it would be very common to what our predecessors experinced in the prehistorical times. It should be the natural environment, where our psyche emerged, modern evolutionary psychologist would call it the 'environment of evolutionary adaptedness'.
Does it mean that we are genrally ready to cope with situations, Haitians have to survive?
Thomas Hobbes, a political philosopher from the XVI century, argued that without a strong gouvernment unlimited violance would spread out in the country. So real power would downscore to the very local area - to the groups of weaponed violent men, more or less organised in gangs. As a result: deprivation of everything which can have any value, and destruction if it cannot be heisted, (it is reported, that gangs detroyed even showers in refugee camps, actually without any reason ), mass rapes of women, lawlessness.
This way of living Hobbes called the 'natural state'. He belived - it would be very common to what our predecessors experinced in the prehistorical times. It should be the natural environment, where our psyche emerged, modern evolutionary psychologist would call it the 'environment of evolutionary adaptedness'.
Does it mean that we are genrally ready to cope with situations, Haitians have to survive?
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