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Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Both Satoru and I fell silent. On the radio, a reporter was expounding on a theory about a random serial killing spree in another prefecture. “What kind of person . . . ?” Satoru said. “What is the world coming to?” I answered. Satoru listened carefully to the rest of the report and then said, “People have been wondering the same thing for over a t
... See moreHiromi Kawakami • Strange Weather in Tokyo: A Novel
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Kent Peterson on Substack
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