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Friday Night Lights

Thomas White

My wife and I just finished the first season of Friday Night Lights (the television show, not the movie). The show is a teen drama that follows the ups and downs of the fictional town of Dillon and its obsession with its football team, the Dillon Panthers. Dillon’s fictional locale is somewhere in [...]

Published: February 8, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Three Horsemen of An Evolutionary Apocalypse, Part 3: Virtual Reality & Concluding Practical Thoughts

Thomas White

Read Part 1 here.
Read Part 2 here.
In this final installment, I will cover, briefly, the false signal sets of video games and other virtual worlds and conclude with a road map out of the mire and despair.
Every human has, to some extent, a capacity for self-evaluation. Thus, it will not do for [...]

Published: February 4, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments closed

The Three Horsemen of an Evolutionary Apocalypse, Part 2: Pornography

Thomas White

In our previous installment, we looked at a particular fitness signaling failure for food consumption, as prehistoric drives for fat accumulation are causing permanent obesity for many individuals in our world of agricultural plenty. In this installment we will explore perhaps the most caustic false signal set in our world, pornography.
First it would be [...]

Published: December 15, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments closed

The Three Horsemen of an Evolutionary Apocalypse, Part 1: Obesity

Thomas White

As a tentative evolutionist, I must acknowledge limitations for human progress due to certain unchanging characteristics of men. Contrary to the blank-slate theoreticians of the post-Enlightenment, man is not a fundamentally rational or good creature.
Evolutionists of the racialist stripe, however, sometimes indulge in their own wishful thinking, grasping at Nietzschean straws about “supermen” seeking their [...]

Published: November 25, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , | Comments closed
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