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This notable thing about his story here is not its atheism but its fatalism. The drama that it presents of helpless humans enslaved by a callous fate-figure is, of course, not new and, like all such myths, it conveys not just meaninglessness but a positive, sinister meaning -- the presence of an active oppressor. The new thing about the current version is merely the cast-list and the backing provided for the story. Fatalism is not offered, not as just one possible philosophical attitude among others with reasons given for and against it, but as a fact backed by the tremendous authority of science. The cosmic bully whom it invokes is now not a pagan deity but a chemical, DNA, a part of our won cells that -- since we, like other organisms, are just lumbering robots ruled by it -- it invoked as the true source of our acts. And the only motivation that it supplies for us is unqualified egoism: “selfishness.” ~ Page 3
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