Most Wars Are Not Fought Over Shortages

Aggression, Like Every Other Part Of Human Behavior We Take For Granted, Is A Challenging Engineering Problem!

Some People Believe That The Nuclear Bomb Should Be Awarded The Nobel Peace Prize, Since It Scared The Major Powers Away From War By Equating It With Doomsday.

The Idea That Boys Want To Sleep With Their Mothers Strikes Most Men As The Silliest Thing They Have Ever Heard. Obviously, It Did Not Seem So To Freud, Who Wrote That As A Boy He Once Had An Erotic Reaction To Watching His Mother Dressing. But Freud Had A Wet-nurse, And May Not Have Experienced The Early Intimacy That Would Have Tipped Off His Perceptual System That Mrs. Freud Was His Mother. The Westermarck Theory Has Out-freuded Freud.

I Never Outgrew My Conversion To Atheism At 13, But At Various Times Was A Serious Cultural Jew.

It's Natural To Think That Living Things Must Be The Handiwork Of A Designer. But It Was Also Natural To Think That The Sun Went Around The Earth. Overcoming Naive Impressions To Figure Out How Things Really Work Is One Of Humanity's Highest Callings.