This has something to do with the fact that their country came out of the divorce with no deeper sense of being, with no obvious purpose or role to play.
We learned to imagine ourselves on the fast track to an exciting goal that demanded commitment and focus: each one of us, say the mystics, was put here with an individual purpose, a role to play in an unfolding drama.
A specific culture invented them for its purposes, to play certain scales and accommodate certain systems of harmony.
In 1989, Khomeini deemed it acceptable to buy and sell instruments, provided they were used "for licit purposes": to play religious music.
His dogs are at the center of his rural enterprise; they're companions as well as co-workers, each with a role to play, a purpose.
"As we wake up and we find that institutions and organizations and ideas that we once thought were fairly stable, or even safe, maybe aren't, and maybe are instable or unsafe, I think that a game like Vampire has an even greater purpose now, a greater role to play," he said.
They had decent New York city geography (at least as good as Birdman's) and showed that, yes, David Schwimmer does have a purpose in entertainment, and that purpose is to play a neurotic giraffe.
However, as matter complexifies in molecules like amino acids (which form spontaneously in many situations), this innate mind and purpose starts to play an increasingly significant role in evolution.
