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The importance of sight to humans, and the need for a vision.
Sight is the defining sense of humanity. Our entire approach to life is oriented around it. Even when we lack sight we will use those brain structures to approximate it. Our great metaphors of understanding revolve around sight. Light, darkness, vision, clarity, fogginess, haze, illumination, insight. The most compelling structure for inhabitation by human thought…
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Problems with atheistic Christianity
If it works, why does it work? Is it because it’s true? If it is true, why is is true? It seems like with these specific stories, people actually thought they were writing history. History as we conceive it, in fact, seems to have emerged out of the kind of unvarnished honesty of presentation that…
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Gender and cooperation
Although tyranny was often an outcome, as it is of any structured political or economic system, specialization into certain roles was also, in the main, a byproduct of local historical conditions and assumptions (both of which had a grounding in empirical personal and cultural experience, experimentation, consequences, and adaptation). Local systems didn’t just arise from…
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Modern expressions of innate sexual instincts
What percent of current political conditions results from the scaled up and transposed familiar instincts in men and women? Those instincts, at the most basic level of society, are fundamental. They’re hard coded into humanity. All subsequent levels of complexity build upon them and extrapolate them. And traditionally society was built from the bottom up,…
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The seperation of reproduction and pleasure
Do we need to ask, what are the possible long term psychological and sociological consequences of separating the pleasurable experiential functions of sex from its biological reproductive functions? Having cut the cord that united the two and divided them into separate categories by means of technology and cultural acclimation, what are the likely results to…
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The value of symbols
An example of an essay in utero, not yet developed. Just a sketch of ideas and a framework of threads to follow. The gods and their symbolic value Pagans, not as dumb or as different as you think The appropriate level for understanding and addressing reality Where humans live Culture heroes as a touch point…
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The value of parents, and the failure of their substitutes
The great contribution of parenthood is the ability to convey the greatest depth of love in complement with the greatest of expectations. Nothing less is sufficient to raise human beings to their fullest potential. And neither separately is a stable strategy. It is only by advancing them together, in balance, that the greatest levels of…
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Art is not necessary
Art seems to stand as a peculiar and bizzare feature of humanity, because it is not necessary. It did not have to be. It is an act of creation, of interference in and addition to nature. When you attempt to reduce human behavior to simple, biologically deterministic routines scaled up from basic animal routines, there…
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Aladdin and modern Disney anthems
I’ve been trying to untangle what bothers me about the “I won’t be silent” song from Aladdin. I suppose a lot of it is context. The movie is a pale imitation of its predecessor, it adds almost nothing to the story and subtracts much. The title character is clearly the weakest in the whole movie.…
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