The world is messy. Nature is messy. Not in the sense of chaotic, there are huge amounts of order, but in terms of the admixture of characteristics and outcomes. Shapes and types of emotions. Expectations and some downright luck. And into the messy nature we think we can parachute absolutes and have them make sense….
Tag: anthropology
It Is Always Dawn Somewhere
We used to think we were connected by a shared planet but in recent years we have come to understand that we are all cousins; a millennia admixture of apes adapting to their environments to survive and breed that eventually became tribes. Archeologists have also suggested that the evidence points to every tribe having been…
International Politics
I chat with my friend Ed on occasions and we talk about how human beings run themselves and he has a phrase, that we are ‘gathering nuts’. The animal instinct to protect oneself and survive by making sure our food sources are protected, that we are warm and can maintain a modicum of health. That…