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Article: Fallible Gods.(The Popular Condition)(Prometheus Bound, a play by Aeschylus)(The Green Pastures: A Fable, a play by Marc Connely)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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WHEN WE HUMANS aren't squabbling among ourselves over who owns what, or who's good and who's bad, we tend to fret about the "Big Question"--who's in charge?
In the twenty-first century we are still tying ourselves into psychological knots over the possible answers to that question. Oh, we pretend that we want to be in charge. We even pretend that we already are, and then we're outraged by the stubborn unwillingness of natural phenomena to stop doing unpleasant things like volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, and so on.
It's now clear that in giving in to our own selfish desires, we humans have been killing off the essential diversity of ...