Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Postmodernism and Miasma

Kenaz Filan
Feb 17, 2017
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Disgust is an instinct which saves us from eating contaminated foods and poisons.  We feel a sense of revulsion upon seeing vomit, rotten meat, excrement -- all things which would sicken and kill us should we consume them.  As Daniel Kelly, author of Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust says:

You have this quick, reflex-like tendency to mov…

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