Because The History Of Evolution Is That

I Believe My Life Has A Value, And I Don't Want To Waste It Thinking About Clothing. I Don't Want To Think About What I Will Wear In The Morning. Truly, Can You Imagine Anything More Boring Than Fashion?

The Romantic View Of The Natural World As A Blissful Eden Is Only Held By People Who Have No Actual Experience Of Nature. People Who Live In Nature Are Not Romantic About It At All. They May Hold Spiritual Beliefs About The World Around Them, They May Have A Sense Of The Unity Of Nature Or The Aliveness Of All Things, But They Still Kill The Animals And Uproot The Plants In Order To Eat, To Live. If They Don't, They Will Die.

Finally, I Would Remind You To Notice Where The Claim Of Consensus Is Invoked. Consensus Is Invoked Only In Situations Where The Science Is Not Solid Enough. Nobody Says The Consensus Of Scientists Agrees That E=mc2. Nobody Says The Consensus Is That The Sun Is 93 Million Miles Away. It Would Never Occur To Anyone To Speak That Way.

Kids Didn't Have Huge Backpacks When I Was Their Age. We Didn't Have Backpacks At All. Now It Seemed All The Kids Had Them. You Saw Little Second-graders Bent Over Like Sherpas, Dragging Themselves Through The School Doors Under The Weight Of Their Packs. Some Of The Kids Had Their Packs On Rollers, Hauling Them Like Luggage At The Airport. I Didn't Understand Any Of This. The World Was Becoming Digital; Everything Was Smaller And Lighter. But Kids At School Lugged More Weight Than Ever.

Do You Want To Understand How To Swim, Or Do You Want To Jump In And Start Swimming? Only People Who Are Afraid Of The Water Want To Understand It. Other People Jump In And Get Wet.