Today it is the only institution that can claim authority. Like the Church in the past, it has the power to destroy, or marginalise, independent thinkers. Gray, John (1996). After Social Democracy: Politics, Capitalism and the Common Life. London: Demos. ISBN 978-1898309529. Harris, Will (26 July 2017). "David Warner on Twin Peaks, Tron, Titanic, Time Bandits, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 5 November 2017. The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.”

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Straw dogs takes a very pessimistic philosophical view of humanity, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. By showing we aren’t much different to animals John Gray puts forward the argument for a more humble view of humanity. One that does away with the religious hopes and dreams and also critiques the role science has played in replacing religion as the hope of humanity. Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. BBC Radio 4 – A Point of View, Greece and the Meaning of Folly". Bbc.co.uk. 21 August 2011 . Retrieved 9 August 2013.Cherniss, Joshua; Hardy, Henry. "Isaiah Berlin". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2007ed.) . Retrieved 4 July 2007. §4. Ethical Thought and Value Pluralism.

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Peter Vaughan, Del Henney and Dustin Hoffman in a bar in a scene from Straw Dogs (Image: Getty Images)Gray, John (2021). Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0141988429. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.” makes me happy to imagine people who bought this wanting something else by the guy who wrote men are from mars, women are from venus...