We Ate the Gods
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We Ate the Gods
For me, the Greek gods reflect what happens to humans when we see only ourselves and our own needs. The great gods have such infinite power and resources that they have forgotten what it’s like to want, to suffer, to show empathy, to face all of life’s minor inconveniences. They have forgotten what it’s like to be told no, and it has turned them
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These are our origins: chaos, violence, and death. And this is the case wherever we turn in the ancient world. The Romans adopted much of the Greek mythology, performing more of a rebrand than a rewrite.
Glen Scrivener • The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
What to do when the multiplicity of sensations, the multiplicity of conceptions, rain down upon the poor creature, who knows not which path to take, and cannot stop turning in circles? What to do when a glucose reality sweetens his élan vital into cloying tributaries of habit? Harvested by algorithms, awaiting a signal that he never hears, even as
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