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Dec 31, 2018 2:43 AM

man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Dec 19, 2018 12:33 AM

out-and-out con

. I de c id ed to unde rgo psychoanalys is , and cont inued with it for thre e yea r s. Analysis r emoved inhibitions and anxiety so tha t I could liv e the way I wanted to liv e. Much of my progress in analysis was accomplished in spite of my analyst who did not like my “orientation,” as he called it. He finally abandoned analytic objectivity and put me down as an “out-and-out con.” I…

Dec 18, 2018 2:02 AM

the world into parts

the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road - aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is…

Dec 18, 2018 1:53 AM

social crises

The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need…