Brummagem

\BRUHM-uh-juhm\, adjective:

Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.

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It's almost time to dust off the journal and start anew, this time exploring the nature of human nature. As humans are a part of nature, is their nature natural or exceeding the natural, as its portents explicate the species as a whole? Surely what drives our actions is a derivation of natural instincts amalgamated with culture and sapience, but it may very well be that human nature as it pertains to the entire species is too broad a classification to warrant conclusive analysis. Pari passu these concerns, human nature itself shifts and ebbs with the flow of time, but perhaps there is also a persistent core, a set of facets that one can definitively classify as human nature, and I suspect this will be the focus of the course.

Looking forward to what part of the aforementioned is foolish being proved wrong.

--Derek