The Pros and Cons of Rigid Morality (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve been talking about how people use their abilities and ideas in their environments to live their lives. We think of new ideas in the process. …
Understanding Worldviews (text)
ACT I Scene 1 We’ve talked a lot in this series about stories of the world. We’ve worked our way up from the biochemistry of survival and reproduction, to the…
The Empathy Formula (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The Web of Human Behavior uses 20 points of reference to outline a framework for people making decisions. We can work through it for…
The Web of Human Behavior (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Modern theatre was pioneered in the 1890s. Evolutionary psychology was pioneered in the 1990s. They’re founded on parallel discoveries of the same principles. …
The Magic of Modern Theatre (text)
ACT I Scene 1 How does real life happen? Most people don’t think about that most of the time. When everything people care about happens they way they expected it…
The First 24 Centuries of Theatre (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Let’s go back to religion and follow another development. The art of theatre in Europe began with religion. Religions are built on stories. An…
Agriculture and the Clashes of Civilizations (text)
ACT I Scene 1 10,500 years ago the first people in the world made the transition from hunting and gathering their food to full time year round farming. That was…
Geography and the Spread of Farming (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Our story has reached the evolution of farming. People have coevolved with plants. We plant seeds and help them grow, and we get food from…
The Evolution of Farming (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Our story is up to 8,500 BC. Humans are spread over all the continents, and their mental abilities are essentially equal. Everyone in the world are…
The Critical Race Theory of Evolution (text)
ACT I Scene 1 You down with the Theory of Evolution? You down with Critical Race Theory? Now what about the Critical Race Theory of Evolution? What does human evolution…