On Genes, Gods and Tyrants

Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre Smiley''s People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical poetry, it has been one of man''s dreams to explain his own conduct. This is the background to all his activities, from literature to speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for want...