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This contradiction is also why plays like Titus Andronicus or Medea make us uncomfortable. Sacrifice of the Apollonian hero by Dionysian rites. We are at once enthralled by the events at a human level and disgusted at ourselves for the truth of that emotion

"In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature." - Camille Paglia

This tweet is Nietzschean theory applied to a Psychoanalytic understanding of public attitudes towards science. I think they get on OK.

Evolutionary psychology: Where systemizing meets empathizing.

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Incorrect. People dislike evolutionary psychology because it explains the reasons for cherished illusions, prejudices and false ideologies, whether nationalistic, religious, feminist, socialist or conservative in Darwinian terms that unmask and discredit the underlying illusions.