But on very rare occasions, when cooperative gets co-opted into doing really, really maladaptive things, that weirdo Noah... is the only survivor *because* he wasn't the cooperative type.
Yes! This helps clarify something I was thinking about earlier, which was how to describe the role of weirdos. I see societies as organic wholes, each organized around a particular telos and governed by its particular gods (angels, saints). Given that, what is the role of the outsider?
The times are evil, and survival depends on freaks.
And there's the answer. Of course another way of saying "the times" is "the spirit of the age," and when we say it we mean it literally... the governing deities of the age are evil.
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Yes! This helps clarify something I was thinking about earlier, which was how to describe the role of weirdos. I see societies as organic wholes, each organized around a particular telos and governed by its particular gods (angels, saints). Given that, what is the role of the outsider?
And there's the answer. Of course another way of saying "the times" is "the spirit of the age," and when we say it we mean it literally... the governing deities of the age are evil.