I think people want to believe in an easy formula to guide their lives. The world is a giant machine and all we have to do is figure out how it works.

My belief is that post-modernism describes a real social condition and period in history, that the 'modern' period began with Newton's publication of his Natural Principles and ended with Einstein's publication of Special Relativity.

I would argue that work activates people. The early humans got mentally and physically active because of doing what was needed in nature.

Space is just one of many mathematical objects and all mathematical objects exist in virtue of being logically consistent and in mutual relations, of which spatial relations are just a special kind of relation.

Moral behavior is performative, not a science. But of course, like most principles, you can always find a way to push them and distort the point.