
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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Is There a Mental Equivalence Between Aging and the Trap?
Aging is basically genetic confusion down at the molecular level. As they age, cells get mixed up as to what sort of cell they are supposed to be and there's a lot of ancient instructions just lying around still in your cells. The hairy tufts springing from your grandfather's ears are there because parts of him are literally devolving into an ancient creature. Wouldn't we want to go back to forced instances of fission between human groups, exiling those don't like? wouldn't we punish crimes, not with legal proceedings, but by our massive social shamings? Of course we like it. It's our innate, evolved form of government.
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