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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

Questions

Questions

January 9, 2017 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

Just finished Chuck Klosterman’s book, But What If We’re Wrong?  I recommend it.  Here are some questions that are put forward in the concluding chapter.

  1. Is the downside of our species unparalleled cerebral evolution the ingrained propensity for self destruction?
  2. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?
  3. Are there not intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that my assumptions about the future might be wrong?

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