This is a companion piece to my earlier reaction to Sex at Dawn. View the previous piece here. If our prehistoric forebears’ freely and casually sexually promiscuous ways were influenced by their hunter-gatherer existence, then our modern sexual behavior is influenced by our agricultural roots. As covered in my previous piece, the advent of agriculture could […]
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Sex at Dawn, a new book discussing the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior, seems to suggest that we should relax our moral standards in order to allow for varying arrangements and configurations of relationships in an attempt to relieve stress and to better everyone’s lives. While free love for all seems like a good idea (even […]
The union of a man and a woman as husband and wife — otherwise known as marriage, matrimony, and getting hitched (amongst other names) — is a very popular type of relationship that many American adults look forward to. When a man loves a woman, and she loves him back, doing “the right thing” often involves getting married. She “makes […]
True understanding requires true education and true knowledge. There are those who would assume their competence in the form of academia, with superficial knowledge of theories and concepts. Others attempt to command a higher status by demanding their credentials be observed and respected. These are the types who lack true knowledge and understanding.
Yet another A paper, this one from my 200-level film class. This paper is about duality on the silver screen. As usual, it’s not exactly the most exciting work I’ve done. It is, after all, an academic paper. As such, it was done in a rushed manner, though not without care and attention to detail. I do wish […]
After doing some light reading on philosophy, I realized that my lifelong search for the truth in the form of the truest knowledge of people and the world could be considered the philosopher’s mission. In my admittedly anemic reading of the Oxford introduction to On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietszche’s rejection of science pushed my mind […]
I was eagerly awaiting the release of Tom Ford’s A Single Man to home video. This was mostly because I love seeing suits on film and I had heard quite a bit about Tom Ford’s fashion background having an influence on the film. Unfortunately, fashion seems to be all there is to this flick.
