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We're teaching them a deliberately diminished view of human nature that has been useful in helping scientists establish long-overdue connections between human and animal psychology--but that is not the end-all and be-all of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
After my psychotic outburst of HMO-vitriol, I almost hesitate to comment on your remark about Christopher H. Smith, because regarding the deal that was worked out to impose "anti-abortion" restrictions on international Third World family planning aid programs as a condition of paying our long-overdue U.N. debt, I'm on the verge of spinning out into berzerker mode again.
The new Disney film articulates a provocative and long-overdue critique of what is possibly the worst thing about the Internet: Its tendency to turn everything in meatspace--first editions, Beanie Babies, unopened cans of New Coke--into a "collectible."
But of course, it's everything in a spot that turns sunny visuals against soft-drink advertisers, using the images to make the long-overdue point that they are a stupid reason to pick a drink.
The New York Times hails the move as "a long-overdue effort to deal with the realities of an overcrowded market, massive bad loans and woefully low profit margins."