We’re just f*king monkeys in shoes
Understanding humanity in culture through the lens of evolutionary and terror management theories.
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Table of Contents
01 - Why 02 - The Beauty in Understanding 03 - Nuance 04 - The Theory of Relativity 05 - The Immortal Replicator 06 - Immortality Projects 101 07 - The Biological Project 09 - The Creative Project 08
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08 - The Status Project
Somewhere between the biological and the creative project lies what you could call “the status project”. The project takes the biological immortality and combines it with the symbolic immortality int
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06 - Immortality Projects 101
“Man is the only being that knows death; all others become old, but with a consciousness wholly limited to the moment which must seem to them eternal” - Oswald Spengler Ive never been a fan of abs
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05 - The Immortal Replicator
“But the individual body, so familiar to us on our planet, did not have to exist. The only kind of entity that has to exist in order for life to arise, anywhere in the universe, is the immortal repl
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03 - Nuance
“Most of society’s arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance. We tend to generate false dichotomies, then try to argue one point using two entirely different sets of assumptions, l
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02 - The Beauty in Understanding
I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an ar
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01 - Why
In 2011, a fellow by the name of Jeffery Winter discovered that if you repeatedly click the first link on any Wikipedia page, 97% of the time you will end up at the page for “Philosophy”. Wikipedia a
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13 - Don’t Try to Hard
“I said at the beginning of this ramble that life is meaningless - it was not a flippant assertion. I think it’s absurd, the idea of seeking meaning in the set of circumstances that happens to exist
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04 - The Theory of Relativity
We divide the world to stop us feeling frightened Into wrong and into right and Into black and into white and Into real men and fairies Into status quo and scary Yeah we want the world binary, binary
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About
“We’re just fucking monkeys in shoes” are the final lyrics from the Tim Minchin song “Confessions”. The song is a metaphor about the continual battle we humans face between biology and culture; the m
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