![]() It is exponentially more worthwhile to be successful, if you are a lobster, and male.” “The dominant male, with his upright and confident posture, not only gets the prime real estate and easiest access to the best hunting grounds. Its victorious opponent, on the other hand, is more likely to win.” “When a defeated lobster regains its courage and dares to fight again it is more likely to lose again than you would predict, statistically, from a tally of its previous fights. “When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.” RULE 1 / Stand up straight with your shoulders back It’s Creation and Destruction, the source of new things and the destination of the dead (as nature, as opposed to culture, is simultaneously birth and demise).” It’s the new and unpredictable suddenly emerging in the midst of the commonplace familiar. As the antithesis of symbolically masculine order, it’s presented imaginatively as feminine. Chaos is what emerges more catastrophically when you suddenly find yourself without employment, or are betrayed by a lover. Chaos emerges, in trivial form, when you tell a joke at a party with people you think you know and a silent and embarrassing chill falls over the gathering. Chaos, by contrast, is where-or when-something unexpected happens. ![]() It’s the Wise King and the Tyrant, forever bound together, as society is simultaneously structure and oppression. The state of Order is typically portrayed, symbolically-imaginatively-as masculine. It’s the world of social structure, explored territory, and familiarity. “Order is where the people around you act according to well understood social norms, and remain predictable and cooperative. “great myths and religious stories of the past, particularly those derived from an earlier, oral tradition, were moral in their intent, rather than descriptive.” And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. So why not call this a book of “guidelines,” a far more relaxed, user-friendly and less rigid sounding term than “rules”? Because these really are rules. That emphasis on tolerance is so paramount that for many people one of the worst character flaws a person can have is to be “judgmental.” And, since we don’t know right from wrong, or what is good, just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.” “So, the decent thing to do-once it becomes apparent how arbitrary your, and your society’s, “moral values” are-is to show tolerance for people who think differently, and who come from different (diverse) backgrounds. According to this argument (now a creed), history teaches that religions, tribes, nations and ethnic groups tend to disagree about fundamental matters, and always have” “The first idea or teaching is that morality is relative, at best a personal “value judgment.” Relative means that there is no absolute right or wrong in anything instead, morality and the rules associated with it are just a matter of personal opinion or happenstance, “relative to” or “related to” a particular framework, such as one’s ethnicity, one’s upbringing, or the culture or historical moment one is born into. Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes: RULE 12 / Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.RULE 11 / Do not bother children when they are skateboarding.RULE 9 / Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.RULE 8 / Tell the truth-or, at least, don’t lie. ![]()
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