#digital morality

Why This Book Was Written Humanity has always searched for meaning. From cave paintings to digital icons, from myths of creation to modern physics, we have asked the same questions: Who are we? What endures? Where is truth to be found? In 1871, Albert Pike attempted to answer these questions with Morals and Dogma, a massive compendium of philosophy, symbolism, and esoteric tradition. But Pike…

  In July 1993, cartoonist Peter Steiner submitted a batch of new drawings to the New Yorker. “I submitted it without thinking it was even the best cartoon in the batch,” he would tell the Washington Post 20 years later.  You’ve seen that cartoon, as it has spawned its own sub-memes for decades. It presented a dog, sitting on a chair, in front of a desktop computer. Next to him, another dog is…