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These Meta Programs are based on the filters that we use to make up our model of the world. Creating Our Model of the World Every person has a certain number of filters by which they let in certain parts of the real world. In Noam Chomsky's
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“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
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“We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)”
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“It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.”
― The Gods Themselves
― The Gods Themselves
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