Modernity is too hard for H. sapiens, and I predict we won’t be able to maintain it.

The following headline, or some version of it, spread in great part by UPI but also put up on countless blogs:

Charles Darwin Wrong On Theory of Evolution for Coral Atolls, Tree of Life; Researches Confirm ‘He Didn’t Know’

The magick of words - we humans are enticed, enthralled, and held hostage to our intimate connection to language. We are human because of language, and language is what is means to be “human” versus other species.

The power of incantations is not to be ignored. It’s why President Obama has to invoke “God bless America” at the end of speeches. It’s a primitive rite that that lays bare the thinness of modernity’s paint over our basic, tribal primate-hood.