Chris Matthews said Wednesday that, if the Chilean miners trapped underground for nearly 70 days had been members of the Tea Party, their "every man for himself" worldview would have caused them to start killing each other instead of working together.
"Sweet Smell" cynicism has leeched into the worldview of every ordinary American to such an extent that it no longer has the affect of cynicism.
At its best, evangelicals' commitment to applying the "Christian worldview" to every dimension of life has led young people to "reflect on their deepest beliefs" in a manner that "lacks a secular counterpart," Stephens and Giberson write.
Astrobiology is an endeavor conducted on behalf of all humanity, and the fruits of its continued progress promise to have a far-reaching impact on every belief system and worldview.
(According to its Amazon.com description, the book offers "a complete worldview... covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics").
Every culture naturally thinks its worldview is right, and all the others are wrong, at least to the degree that they differ from its own.
What he passed down to those who would write in his wake, then, was not merely a new genre but an implicit worldview that would infiltrate every aspect of social life: fiction.
Each day's news events can thus be interpreted through the up-is-down prism this worldview imposes, ensuring that every national tragedy or mass shooting is soon enmeshed in a web of theories about its real purpose.
A late-night screening of The 400 Blows might only be watched by 100,000 viewers, but every one of them will have their worldview transformed, augmented, heightened, or widened, by watching it.
- The latter is implicit in humanity's intuitive right-brain quest for a holistic worldview that has historically dominated every culture in our long trek out of the jungle, including the development of modern science.
