We want to be influenced by tradition, but not bound by it.
Digital watches, such as they are, really are a pretty neat idea. As we progress toward cloning and hydro-electric interactive bullriding, we have to consider the relevancy of an analog watch. As every PDA clipped to the waist of every rayon-shirted tech-head will attest, [...]
Few monkeys share the hominid line’s ability to grow a good, long beak. Others jut of jaw, sure, project their pates forward, but only homo knows the pleasure of nice, long nose.
It’s not even that we smell so well: women can detect 10,000 scents, men a little fewer. We can’t grasp nearly the olfactory outlook [...]
Fundamentalism is another word for spiritual and metaphysical infantilism. The same thing that we treat as a psychological disorder when it manifests emotionally and as a learning disorder when it manifests intellectually we tolerate as a legitimate interpretation of spiritual traditions and texts when it manifests in church. We on the Left are especially prone [...]