What the Backroom is good for, and what it is not

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Had a colleague who believed in the tabula raza thingee. Never could agree with her, though I am very much a believer in the importance of culture. However, while much of who we are is malleable, there are certain physical dispositions that are encoded in our DNA sequencing that can and do influence how we will develop. Your sister's friend is wrong. If what he really meant is that much/most of how we develop is a culturally influenced combination of factors that is not entirely fixed in advance then he would be correct.

Monty wears me down sometimes, and Pan about the Brexit. Mostly I enjoy the interplay.