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...Philip Burgess, of the Center for the New West in Denver, looked out from his urban redoubt on the edge of the plains and declared the advent of an "archipelago society." Modest to small cities are sprinkled across great washes of sparsely populated land, the tiny towns nearly dead, ranches getting bigger. The surviving communities are oases that offer services and cultural amenities for the surrounding areas. Mathers foresaw that intuitively when he arrived 40 years ago. Except for a short spell at first, he has lived in Miles City and driven to and from his ranch 25 miles away...
Elvis Presley STAY AWAY, JOE. Among the King's lazy epics, this 1968 flick is notable for the way Presley and co-star Burgess Meredith impersonate Native Americans as manic subhumans...
...part it is a double entendre because the animals in the Burgess Shale are so peculiar and wonderful. It is also because the movie illustrates this fundamental concept of contingency: that is, George Bailey is about to commit suicide because Mr. Potter has stolen some money, which is going to drive Bailey's firm into bankruptcy, and he figures his life has been utterly insignificant. He says, "I wish I had never been born," and then follows that famous ten-minute scene that shows the town of Bedford Falls had George Bailey never been born. It is an alternate reality...
...Much of your book is about how the discoverer of Burgess fit his findings to reflect his beliefs. What makes you think your own beliefs have not colored your views of evolution...
...know with respect to your own view is that you can engage in a lot of vigilance and scrutiny so that you can try to identify your own biases. You hope that a consciousness of social embeddedness makes you more sensitive. So, yes, of course, the interpretations of the Burgess Shale are in part conditioned by what's happening in society. But there is also a basic factual issue. I think that the description of the anatomy of these organisms can be done with objectivity. It is how we interpret these animals, and what we say they mean...