This View of Life
Magazine

The following synopsis will provide useful background for the commentaries.

Apocalyptic ideas motivate much of the most virulent political violence in the world, stirring what can be called the “fundamentalist mindset.”

Commentary 3

Spirituality often seems like the opposite of action, but some of the most committed forms of activism come from spiritual leaders.

This process of “acting like” is a critically important mechanism in cultural evolution since it leads to social conformity and the homogenization of group behavior.

My hope for this essay is to endow the social enterprise, not only with a sense of necessity, but also with a sense of beauty.

The human capacity for creating an imaginative virtual world has been the culminating adaptation of the long human trajectory of gene-culture coevolution.