“Aren’t We the Lucky Ones” is a series of stories that begins when an Evolutionary Psychology professor is removed from his teaching position after one of his troubled students commits suicide.  With the teacher gone, the university cancels the class mid-semester.  However some of the classmates want to stay together, so they continue to meet once-a-month at a student’s apartment.

The students who continue to meet have something in common with their dead classmate: they’re all “determinists” – they all understand that there’s no free will.

With their classmate’s death, they become very aware of the mismatch between their deterministic understandings and their everyday behavior.  And so together the young determinists search for new ways to live meaningful and productive lives.  This is not easy.  The students have to work-out a new ethics – a new way of treating others – a way in which there are no “good people” or “bad people” – a way in which there is no excessive praise or punishment – a way they call their “Ethics of Luck”.

After graduating from college, they decide to live together as a monastic community.  They purchase and move into an old hotel, naming themselves the “Machinists Union”.  For financial stability, they operate a number of bean-and-rice food carts and they establish a science-based high school where they serve as teachers.  But all along the way, they are constantly challenged to follow their Ethics of Luck.  Their successes and failures in meeting these challenges are what their lives – and our stories – are all about.

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“Aren’t We the Lucky Ones” supersedes these earlier books which are no longer available: