“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
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