Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs duri… - Edward O. Wilson

Much of culture, including especially the content of the creative arts, has arisen from the inevitable clash of individual selection and group selection.

In America, for example, it is possible in most places to openly debate different views on religious spirituality — including the nature and even the existence of God, providing it is in the context of theology and philosophy. But it is forbidden to question closely, if at all, the creation myth — the faith — of another person or group, no matter how absurd. To disparage anything in someone else’s sacred creation myth is “religious bigotry.” It is taken as the equivalent of a personal threat.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.