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The Independent reports that TVNZ and TV3 peeps got into a bar fight with each other on Friday!

This is just the sort of thing written about by such thinkers on human nature as Thornstein Veblen and Desmond Morris.

We are, they would say, the same territorial and violent savages humans ever were. Yes, it's a jungle of concrete and steel. Yes our furs are Armani suits. Yes our tribal call is a nation-wide broadcast. But we're still apes acting out the same play for all that. It's just that the costumes, the set, and the script writing has become more sophisticated.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.- Solomon

Of course this is bullshit. Veblen is especially seductive, and entertaining, but his savage philosophy can't counter the optimistic assurances of Objectivism. And poor old Solomon, he could have written a much more chipper Bible page if he'd had a dose of Ayn Rand.