Known Forever By the Tracks We Leave
If there is really a toxic element in Rousseau's legacy, it is this: his promulgation of the 'myth of the stupid savage'—even if one he considered blissful in its state of stupidity.
A Debt Against the Living
"The improvements made by the dead form a debt against the living."
The Ratchet Effect
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
A Vaccine for Ignorance
We need to recognize how our biases for individualism tip us toward misunderstanding and rejecting reality—and the study of reality, science.