“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.”
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“While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable”
― A Species in Denial
― A Species in Denial
“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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