Both "Café Müller" and "The Rite of Spring" feel crucially modern, as the slipperiness of language and ideology rule the day and younger generations grasp for other, more expansive ways of comprehending ourselves and the world we've inherited.
Moreover, a basic understanding of science -- including Darwin's theory -- is essential to comprehending ourselves and our world.
Using many regions across the brain, the imagination network enables us to remember the past, think about the future, see other perspectives and scenarios, comprehend stories, understand ourselves, and create meaning from our experiences.
Luckily for us, we don't have to comprehend it for ourselves, because the Global Drug Survey GDSS) have gone and done it for us.
When we read a journalist we are effectively doing the same thing -- we go with them on a journey into the unknown to discover and then finally fully comprehend something outside ourselves.
And while we cannot pretend to comprehend, we must, ask ourselves - what should we do?
When we don't poise ourselves to comprehend any situation, belief, or individual behavior, we contribute to how that person, belief, or situation will be misconstrued.
This collective, lasting trauma, ought to push us farther than statistics alone toward some kind of address to America's grinding mass-shooting epidemic, if we can find it in ourselves to comprehend it, as a matter of sheer human empathy.
It is pattern that enables us to comprehend the world outside of ourselves.
It's really difficult to call on Cuba to improve when we are struggling to comprehend decisions we have made ourselves that are no less despicable".
