The Nasty Little Apes That Call Themselves

In Order Not To Be Misunderstood, I Want It Perfectly Clear That I Believe It Is Incumbent On Us To Conduct Our Lives In A Way That Takes Into Account All The Consequences Of Our Actions, Including The Consequences To Other People, And The Consequences To The Environment.

We Are All Assumed, These Days, To Reside At One Extreme Of The Opinion Spectrum, Or Another. We Are Pro-abortion Or Anti-abortion. We Are Free Traders Or Protectionists. We Are Pro-private Sector Or Pro-government. We Are Feminists Or Chauvinists. But In The Real World, Few Of Us Hold These Extreme Views. There Is Instead A Spectrum Of Opinion.

Do You Know What We Call Opinion In The Absence Of Evidence? We Call It Prejudice.

A Wonderful Area For Speculative Academic Work Is The Unknowable. These Days Religious Subjects Are In Disfavor, But There Are Still Plenty Of Good Topics. The Nature Of Consciousness, The Workings Of The Brain, The Origin Of Aggression, The Origin Of Language, The Origin Of Life On Earth, Seti And Life On Other Worlds...this Is All Great Stuff. Wonderful Stuff. You Can Argue It Interminably. But It Can't Be Contradicted, Because Nobody Knows The Answer To Any Of These Topics.

Considering That We Live In An Era Of Evolutionary Everything---evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Medicine, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Economics, Evolutionary Computing---it Was Surprising How Rarely People Thought In Evolutionary Terms. It Was A Human Blind Spot. We Look At The World Around Us As A Snapshot When It Was Really A Movie, Constantly Changing.