Joseph on Nostr: I was thinking about this yesterday. Jacques Monod called for an “ethic of ...

I was thinking about this yesterday. Jacques Monod called for an “ethic of knowledge” in the final chapter of his book, Chance and Necessity. His friend, Albert Camus, argued in The Myth of Sisyphus for a striving to be our best selves despite a universe without meaning. They both were non-believers who eloquently sought the advancement of civilization. Religion, and most especially the self-serving religion of the far right today, locks society into obsolete beliefs tied to ignorant myths of the past rather than leveraging our intelligence and knowledge for the betterment of humankind.