Her appearance was made possible as part of the annual Hein-Fry Lecture Series. The problem for many individuals today, she said, is that in their slothfulness individuals decide they will not stand apart from the exigencies of their time. Examples are found in biological obsessions, she said. We are preoccupied with overcoming ailments with will and skill. We search for cures for the human condition.
Old age becomes anomalous.
We think about the selective destruction of what is abnormal. In human engineering projects we wonder about choosing our descendants, selecting the lives to come. We should discover ways to tame the market basis for our society. Pride and sloth shake hands with each other and we tell ourselves that the more control we have the better. This is a form of idolatry.