I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom though I know the power of it.
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of...
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.