“It is moral to be amoral.” In her 1999 piece, Diana Schaub argues for a return to the values of the founding generation of America. She suggests that one of the reasons Generation X’s character decayed was due to the rise of tolerance and moral relativism. She feared that being “blindly tolerant of everything” would lead to the acceptance of heinous acts such as “slavery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, [and] genocide” because being “judgmental” and “discriminating” were viewed as sins. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
