Sorry to be a pedant but the antlers-too-big thing is contentious& probably not true. I forget the details right now but I was persuaded that the idea was false by a chapter in Stephen Jay Gould’s book (which I highly recommend) ‘Ever Since Darwin.’
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Thanks Una. Yes, I am aware that there is a debate around this, and no scientific consensus either way. I originally wrote "the Irish elk *is said to have* died out because...", however, that made my tweet more than 280 characters. I had to simplify just to make the tweet fit!
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Your tweets are the most fascinating and insightful I get to read each day. Thank you
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Juliet! That means a lot to me, thank you right back.
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In Fundamental Daoism, the struggle against that meaninglessness is the core of human existent. It is that struggle which builds the foundation of one's belief and teaches you how to walk on the knife edge of ying and yang: a.k.a life.
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Isn’t that an idea from Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe?
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Interesting thought. This proposition presupposes much, though. Briefly, we have culturally rejected processes & institutions of meaning-making: this is a flaw in our cultural evolution, not our organic evolution. Fortunately, cultural evolution is easier to course correct.
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How the hell could that poor thing have seen lions or jaguars or whatever sneaking up on it with those antlers blocking its peripheral vision?
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Sure, they're fascinating and worthwhile. But my point was about their evolutionary value.
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