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Is Evolution Not Just True, But Good (Something To Be Embraced)?
Jared Burton has written a beautiful and soulful folk song capturing humanity’s uncomfortable and ambivalent relationship to evolution. I find the lyrics emotionally and intellectually challenging. But I can’t decide if I agree or not with the orientation to Nature … Continue reading
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Tagged atheist, capitalism, competition, evolution, Jane Austen, Jared Burton, music, nature, philosophy, sex, vegan
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Shopping Rage: Black Friday’s Competitive Shopping Road Rage
From the Los Angeles Times today comes this disturbing little item worthy of a scene from Dante’s Inferno: In Porter Ranch, a woman pepper sprayed customers at a Wal-Mart in what authorities say was a deliberate attempt to get more “door … Continue reading
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Tagged America, black friday, Charles Darwin, competition, consumerism, evolution, shopping, survival of the fittest, wal-mart
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Ancient Roman Existentialism?
Jean-Paul Sartre, I think, would have like this. It’s from Carlin Barton’s Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (pg. 32, UC Press 2001): As the art historian Bettina Bergmann points out, the Romans had a taste for moments of high tension, … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, death, existentialism, football, free will, freedom, gladiators, Jean-Paul Sartre, life, Nietzsche, philosophy, will
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Prometheus Unbound 