Black and white thinking –
a useful evolutionary short-cut for quickly reacting in an emergency,
an extremely dangerous tool that simplifies experience into lies.
Tag: poetry
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Black and White Thinking
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Evolution of Religions
If you are afraid to die, they provide you with an immortal soul,
if you are afraid to live, they provide you with an authority to tell you what to do…
religions evolved to cater to every available kind of fear. -
De-evolution
People who tell you to go back to your roots are merely lonely –
they have already devolved to the pre-sapient stage and want you to join them back there. -
Tunnel Vision
Language is just as much an instrument for seeing as eyes are.
Look at things – and you will see the world.
Look for things – and all you will see is the inside of your head. -
Strangeness
Sometimes, in the middle of the day on a country road,
the essential strangeness of the world
staggers you. -
Point of View
What is it that makes us human?
Is it soul,
technology,
the use of handkerchiefs
or two types of forks?
I think it is language, for it gives us empathy;
the ability to see through other’s eyes
and hence the ability to see something truly new.
Look through the eyes of an artist – it will give you the joy of creating a world.
Look through the eyes of history – it will give you the desire for changing the world.
Look through the eyes of a child – it will give you a reason for changing yourself.
