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Now, Culturebox may well be correct that hungry young males (or hungry old defense attorneys, or jurors of all ages and appetites) are incapable of resisting the temptation of "tout comprendre, tout pardonner ." But if so, then it is hardly a triumph for her preferred "willed culture" over the animal model; rather, it is a subtler, richer application of the evolutionary psychologists' fundamentally wise observation: that social institutions fail unless they treat humans as the instinct-driven creatures they are, and avoid pretending that they are the self-defining logical and aesthetic intellects that Culturebox would like them to be.
The urge to explain an entire election in terms of a single lesson or message is usually worth resisting.
Wonder if the Times had trouble resisting the observation that it's an investment Clinton's never made, a bedrock he's never stood on.
Since such conditions are not limited by geography, old speech has been remarkably hardy in resisting as well as absorbing the new.
Kant analyzed the concept of beauty as implying purposiveness without any particular purpose, and Cornell's boxes have that kind of beauty, since they convey a sense of meaningfulness while resisting the assignment of any specific meaning.