Thursday, June 08, 2023

Where we find ourselves today …

… The Return of Good and Evil, Part 1 | The Pipeline.


The issues once dismissed by the 20th century have returned with a vengeance. We are back to the original problem humanity faced at the dawn of civilization, on the edge of the savanna. We had to not only work out how birds flew, how the world came to be, but also offer a theory of why things should be. Then as now there was no avoiding the question of right and wrong; the choice between good and evil. However elusive these concepts were, however much we prefer to avoid them, we will find that science is not enough to provide the information. Myth is necessary. Pascal was right: "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing" and those reasons of the heart are far too important to ignore.

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