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while at the same time experimenting with mind- expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment.”22
For a higher intellectual plane than spoof spy
Mike Myers, consult the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow who stated that: “In expressing love
we [Americans] belong among the underdeveloped nations.”23 Although Saul’s assessment may be true,
it’s also possible that we may be suffering from the inevitable confusion that accompanies great increases in freedom.
VI. The fundamentalism that God or the universe has created one person for you to mate with.
If you find that one-and-only person you will be happy-ever-after, or at least happy enough for the rest of your life. The part of this fundamentalism that is true is that there is probably someone out there with whom you could live happily-ever-after, or at least better than if you lived alone. I believe many people do find that someone and their lives become immeasurably happier until they die.
The part of the story that may very well be myth is that there’s only one one-and-only. If we believe strongly in evolution then we believe strongly in evolution’s efforts to make us mate. That is, to make us reproduce, or at least do the things that can lead to reproduction. To do things like falling and love and mating for a long