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Dash87

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5. Depends what you think that expression means.

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Original post)

Thu Apr 11, 2013, 03:54 PM

Apr 2013

How influenced do you have to be by this time period to be a product of it?

In an extreme example, would a little boy raised by wolves with 0 human contact (suspend your disbelief for a moment) be a product of our time? How so? Just by being born in this time period? Is cultural influence necessary?

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By investigating Newest Reality Apr 2013 #1

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We can't. rrneck Apr 2013 #3

Most of the memes in our heads Sanddog42 Sep 2013 #6

I think the definition of time can mean something... defacto7 Apr 2013 #4

Depends what you think that expression means. Dash87 Apr 2013 #5

I suppose this quote from Karl Marx's "Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" would be appropriate Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2013 #7

exactly, there are preset parameters that we must work within. That we stretch and break those Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2013 #8