Life Is Like A Very Short Visit

We May Prefer To Think Of Ourselves As Fallen Angels, But In Reality We Are Rising Apes.

The Age Of A Child Is Inversely Correlated With The Size Of The Animals It Prefers.

We Are To Put It Mildly, In A Mess, And There Is A Strong Chance That We Shall Have Exterminated Ourselves By The End Of The Century. Our Only Consolation Will Be That As A Species, We Have Had An Exciting Term Of Office.

We Read Off The Many Signals That Our Companions' Clothes Transmit To Us In Every Social Encounter. In This Way, Clothing Is As Much A Part Of Human Body Language As Gestures, Facial Expressions And Postures.even Those People Who Insist That They Despise Attention To Clothing, And Dress As Casually As Possible, Are Making Quite Specific Comments On Their Social Roles And Their Attitudes Towards The Culture In Which They Live.

...in Little More Than A Single Century From 1820 To 19450, No Less Than Fifty-nine Million Human Animals Were Killed In Inter-group Clashes Of One Sort Or Another.... We Describe These Killings As Men Behaving "like Animals," But If We Could Find A Wild Animal That Showed Signs Of Acting This Way, It Would Be More Precise To Describe It As Behaving Like Men.