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This 3 page paper analyzes an article that Margaret Mead wrote, arguing that war is an invention. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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(Flaherty). She was interested in many areas, including the bomb, student uprisings, ecology and the womens movement. This paper analyzes her essay "War-Not a Biological Necessity." Discussion Margaret Mead was
not afraid to speak her mind; in this essay she asks a very important question: "Is war a biological necessity, a sociological inevitability, or just a bad invention" (Mead, 1940).
Mead says that those who espouse the first view "endow man with such pugnacious instincts that some outlet in aggressive behaviour is necessary if man is to reach full human
stature" (Mead, 1940). That is, man is by nature so warlike that he has to make war if he is to reach his full potential. The second viewpoint, that war
is a sociological inevitability, stems from the thinking that war is inevitable as nations develop; it occurs because there is always a "struggle for land and natural resources," and because
class structures come from the "nature of history" not the "nature of man" (Mead, 1940). War in these circumstances is inevitable "unless we change our social system and outlaw classes,
the struggle for power, and possessions" (Mead, 1940). If we could abolish these, war would disappear as well. Mead suggests that there is another option, somewhere between seeing war as
the result of mans nature and seeing it as the result of a struggle between developing societies: that, Mead says, is the idea of war as an "invention" (Mead, 1940).
It is an invention like any other invention such as "writing, marriage, cooking our food instead of eating it raw, trial by jury, or burial of the dead, and so
on" (Mead, 1940). Mead points out that when we consider cultures individually, some have specific practices and others do not share those practices; for instance, some cultures bury their dead
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