Showing posts with label civilization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civilization. Show all posts
Monday, December 4, 2023

What It Is To Be a Human -- Part I

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A living organism is a complex and fragile mechanism that requires continual maintenance and repair.  Maintenance and repair of an organism ...
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Monday, May 3, 2021

The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done

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By John Ellis Wall St. Journal, May 2, 2021: An advanced society functions by creating a series of institutions, telling them what it wants...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Death of the West: Autism and Atheism

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Vox Popoli postulates a correlation between autism and atheism. I first postulated my hypothesis concerning a link between the autism ...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Frans de Waal: An Ethologist's Confusion About Ethics — Part I

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Ethology is the study of animal behavior. Franz de Waal is a distinguished ethologist and author of several best-selling accounts of primat...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

What Accounts for the Past 500 Years of Western Global Dominance? Race, Culture or Blind Chance?

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By Canspeccy I have no sympathy for the imperialist enthusiasm of Oxford cum Harvard and Stanford Professor, Niall Ferguson. I am prom...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Of Men, and Apes and Civilization

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The close DNA sequence similarity between men and apes has led some to suppose that a man is no more than a wimpy chimp with a slightly swol...