Reading: The Death of Adam
. I’m working my way through her essay about Darwinism. Suffice it to say, I’ve got a lot of issues with it (it is useful to learn incrementally in science, dammit), but I find her point about how the emphasis on selfishness in Darwinism making it easier to ignore the poor and unsuccessful hard to refute. I need to think abut it more.
Watching: Before Sunrise
and Before Sunset
. I’d never seen either of them before, and the nostalgia value from Before Sunrise was *huge*. I was in college in 1995 and my backpacking trip through Europe was in 1997 — I could almost smell the mid-90s while I watched it. (Incidentally, this lead to a conversation with theCultFigurine “what did they smell like?” Unwashed flannel, hiking boots, The Barber’s Closet, the apartment in Madison I lived in for two years with six other people, that place in Paris we’d stop for food on the way back to the hostel at 3am… You were making mistakes, but they were your mistakes! Sometimes I miss being 22. )
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