“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.” ― Isaiah Berlin

Adam Smith on Productivity / Adam Smith y la productividad

Out of the unrelenting application of reason, and the acceptance of what we truly are, our dreams will finally come home to stay

This post closes the series on Progress and Inequality initiated with the post on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Adaptación, ingenio y crecimiento poblacional Not all human adaptations to the environment stem from its radical modification by our...

According to Edward O. Wilson, science and religion are irreconcilable.

In Europe, the church was the biggest owner of properties during the middle ages. No single noble or king was richer than the church.

With the growth of religions, they became cosmopolitan organizations with the same forms of functioning, hierarchy, and content anywhere.

Religions grew in complexity and changed their main functions with the changes from hunter-gatherer bands to tribes, chiefdoms and states.

One inconsistency in religions is the belief of an almighty god and at the same time, on an evil being who annoys the god as much as he can

Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that knowledge erodes

In 2018, the richest 1% of the world's population, about eighty million people, owned half the wealth of the planet.

Orwell about nationalism: "There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind..."

"I've always maintained that in this business, you're only as good as the other fellow thinks you are." James Cagney.

Morality and social norms, including punishments, enhance the superb cooperation capacity of our species.

..most people, including many scholars, would like to keep human nature at least partially in the dark. It is the monster in the fever swamp

Failures of Reason: in the 1st decade of the 21st century, 75% of the U.S. population still believed in at least one paranormal phenomenon.

"It is so convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”

The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

Today's phenomenon of music idols and groupies likely has its roots in the Stone Age.