posted 6 years ago
You frame the evolution of cognition as combat between what has passed and what is now?
What is the point of contextualising it this way?
What we now refer to as mythology was once simply what humans had come up with in seeking answers about ourselves and the world around us through telling stories that some people decided to take frighteningly literally. Mythologies are still useful cultural compendia, filled with fables (or parables) that attempt to convey wisdom through analogy.
I clicked the link. I saw the itemised list of grievances. Where was the discussion?
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein