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

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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.

Socialist Darwinism is the idea that natural selection promotes societies that cooperate as moral communities.

Filmic tragedies about climate change would be a better genre than melodrama to help promote perspective and purpose for the ethical and political difficulties ahead.