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Originally Posted by jwb
Closer than before but you're still in strawman territory.
Basically, he preaches against what he labels postmodernism but is actually a simplistic strawman of the left that wants to remove all hierarchy and tradition. The lobster example is to show that we share a basic structure with an organism that is removed from us evolutionarily by so many millions of years that any similarity should be striking.
The point is to reinforce the idea that hierarchy may go awry but the basic concept has a natural utility.
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That sounds suspiciously like the good old 'it's (un)natural' argument to me.
I don't know much about this lobster **** so I'm just working with what you're saying, but the fact that hierarchy has a use in nature does not mean that 1. it's good 2. it still has a similar use for humans, considering we have strayed pretty far from our hunter gatherer origins.