Quoting Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 736. Man's two worlds
[snip]
Gee... I thought the two worlds that man lives in were:
(1) the world of necessity, and (2) the world of freedom.
[borrowing, loosely, from Kant...].
There was an article about the first -- the world of
necessity -- in yesterday's NYT: A new theory that
juvenile diabetes originated in Europe 12,000 years ago
as an adaption against the Ice Age: People with lots
of glucose in their blood freeze less quickly
than normal people (this seems similar to sickle cell
anemia providing partial protection
against malaria). So, in the world of
necessity, we have man adapting to adversity in a
way which saves the species at the price of making
not just the individual -- who cares about me? --
but even his sacrosanct "descendents"
(those future generations
we are all supposed to sacrifice for but of which
we ourselves are apparently not one!) infirm!
Of course, the article continues, this isn't the
point -- evolutionarily, that is! --, because the
health effects of juvenile diabetes occur generally
after ago 25, when the inflicvted individual
would already have reproduced, i.e., have done
his or her duty for Deity and tribe, despite the
freezing cold -- of 12,000 years ago, whereas at least
one child I know, in a very warm middle class
family, got juvenile diabetes 20 years ago!
Ah! But then I argue there is a second world
in which man also lives: the world of freedom:
artistic creation and delectation, a world in which,
e.g., such things as a "theory of evolution" come into
being and are enjoyed by persons who have the
free time to do scientific experiments, etc.
[Let us recall that, until recently, science was
the leisured activity of wealthy gentlemen,
not of artificially socially constructed lab-drudges
who, like Mickey and Minnie Mouse at Disneyworld,
have to do it to earn a living. As I have
previously noted, the reason Sigmund Freud invented
psychoanalysis is that he did not have
the family money to be able to support himself
as a Professor of Invertebrate Biology, which was
his first love.]
Just one person's thoughts about "man's two worlds"....
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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