On the Ecology of Morals

We teach our youth their disobedience with our contradictory demands. Our ever-churning social interests guarantee that the social survival on our part ends with the loss of our children’s participation in our later schemes, and then they too, being our spent bullets, benefit in finding independence through disobeying us. Adulthood is the discovery of the unreliable, “Us.”   Now these recently liberated adults still must survive the churn required to get through the day and to the meal at the end of it, sacrificing those who are dependent upon them.  "Individualistic" is a better word for the regenerative cycle of obedience, betrayal, and the healthy, unrelenting reflex for cognitive blinking.

 

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A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism

 

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