Culture, Evolution, Perpetual War

Priest of the Trojans at the time of the Greek invasion, Laocoon is punished by Poseidon for advising his people to refuse [...]

Prisoners of a closed universe from which there is no escape, Escher’s monks climb an ever-upward, ever-downward staircase. No matter how many [...]

As the gods evolved from their animistic origins, their powers simultaneously increased. This transformation, engineered by priests and story tellers, ultimately created [...]

First arising as an attempt to control animal spirits and guarantee future success in the hunt, religion germinated for many thousands of [...]

Lord of the Flies Surveying the savage disintegration of their temporary island paradise, Piggy asks Ralph: “What makes things break up like [...]

The great wheel spins, turns away from itself, twisting the strands of moments into one continuous thread of time.  The shuttle clatters [...]

Whether the universe is the intentional work of a designer, or whether it is the result of a blind, spectacular concatenation of [...]

A Just So Story… Mind and Body are the inventive, but odd couple of evolution. One rides high, head sometimes in the [...]

A fragile vessel bobs like a sodden cork beneath heavily threatening clouds.  Some of its passengers are resigned, others near to expiring, [...]

The foregoing discussion has emphsized a phylogenetic and unconscious etiology for the problem of history.  But there is a related set of [...]

Santayana was wrong. History does not repeat itself because we have failed to learn from the past. History repeats itself because evolution [...]

Featuring Arthur Miller: The Crucible "I say, I say God is Dead!" John Procter: The Crucible The stories of Orpheus, Demeter, Persephone, [...]

Much like Northwest natives who believed that earth was the the spiritual repository of departed ancestors, we moderns also tread upon the [...]

She swoons languidly upon a coral-like bed of dreams that floats above the altar of the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.  [...]

Socrates final words, uttered from beneath the sheet that he had drawn over his face to hide the poison grimace, were thought [...]

"Dogma is the imposing cathedral which lifts its dome above the beliefs and the cults of a highly organized religion, enclosing them [...]

The successes of both Pythagoras and Plato will ironically open the way for a final skeptical assault on the immortality project itself. [...]

Introduction to the Epigenesis of Totemism The discoveries of the new sciences hammer away at humanity’s most cherished, delusions.  Galileo set the [...]

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of [...]

"Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates." ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of [...]