&gt; <i>What about technology, scientific progress, our guided evolution as a species and so on?</i><p>A means to an end, that end being to enhance and prolong my relationships with those I love. Sensory pleasures are fine too, but nothing is remotely as important to me as my favorite walking sacks of meat.<p>&gt; <i>People who have turned academia into a filthy whore that is constantly being pimped out to the highest bidder.</i><p>Can you choose a better, less vulgar metaphor? It makes you look really bad, and there&#x27;s nothing wrong with being a sex worker.