Human Pride Isn’t Just Arbitrary Arrogance
The glory and strangeness of recognizing life’s basic condition
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7 min readMay 1, 2024
Here’s a paradox: we know from science that we’re part of nature, but in our developed societies we generally act as though we’re above nature.
Even with the rise of right-wing authoritarianism in Europe and the US, most of us are individualists and we think…