We're taught at an early age that knowledge is the stuff of certainty. The right response is the one teachers like, we esteem intelligible voices in society, and we'll pay those who "know what they believe" unconditionally. Uncertainty, though, is likely weakness, a...

Life itself, though, is a cycle. We get up, we eat, we work, we sleep, we rest, and do the very same thing the day after tomorrow. Generations pass, seasons pass, nations and empires rise and fall, and history over and over and over does the same things, war,...

Strength is arguably the most admired attribute in human society. We admire the strong, bodily, politically, or mentally, and attempt to follow in their footsteps. Hero myths, king myths, and conquest myths all idealize the belief that strength is the force behind...