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Respect Desire Worship
Respect Desire Worship
“The universe is on a journey towards infinite beauty.”
AI images of manicured vs. wild natural beauty
James Madison pinpointed the root cause of violent factionalism: the boundless desires and varying abilities of people to acquire, as Alexander Hamilton described in Federalist #12,
AI interpretation of music
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original Olympic Games
Deuteronomy: “neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left.”
Our intense co-evolution for desire has led to our signature inclination for worship
Charismatic Tyrant
Lincoln: “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword,
Months after my birth in 1941, Roosevelt secretly met with Churchill at Argentia, Newfoundland with the storm clouds of world war ominously looming. With British and American battle ships lashed together, the sailors all sang “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Although that battle song would be stricken from the hymnals following the war, this was a luminous …
“this binding force has been the emergence of laws, which were then disseminated by common languages to ever larger populations. “
Charles S. Sherrington: “millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern”
Shakespeare: “Life’s but a walking shadow”
Our complex communication and understanding depend on our uniquely evolved cooperative interactions.
Darwin: “Language is the instinctive tendency to acquire an art.”
Sonnet 73: As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
It is truly as if dogs live inside our mind. In this same way, our human ancestors lived within the mind of the groups that domesticated them.
Because these newly acquired traits all enhance the capacity of this burgeoning organism to survive, it is transformed into a subject with the intention to survive, and in the process has achieved the rudiments of mind.