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Cody Wheat
May 12th, 2024
Happy Sunday, and welcome behind the backbar, where we end the week with a quote regarding wine and spirits. Some quotes and authors are better known than others, but all shed light on the attitudes this liquid inspires.
“There’s a literal direct sense in which intoxication has lead to civilization. It’s the desire to get intoxicated that caused human beings to start to settle down and live in agricultural communities.”
via University of British Columbia
Edward Slingerland is a philosopher and current Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He’s the author of six academic books, and has authored or co-authored academic articles which have appeared in publications such as Nature, Ethics, Annual Review of Psychology, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
He is also the author of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, And Stumbled Our Way To Civilization, where he explores alcohol's role in the development of human civilization and culture.
