Quote of the Day (3/23/11)

Our culture is caught in a frenzy of biological materialism. Newspaper columns, sit-coms, comic strips, talk shows—our public banter is replete with corrolaries of the thesis that biology is destiny. When we laugh, if we do, at the claims that the genes for noticing dirty dishes, asking directions, and making commitments are absent on the Y chromosome, or that the gene for channel-surfing with the TV buzz box is present only there, it is because these beliefs are not distant from ones we actually hold.
--Peter Kramer, Listening to Prozac