Noticing differences greatly assists survival… up the point of diminishing returns, especially for a thinking animal like us. Blindly validating perceptions of difference ultimately leads to anxiety of some sort. Nevertheless, discerning differences would seldom become so worrisome for our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Civilization, by taming the wilderness, removes the natural stresses that would otherwise counterbalance […]
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How the Hoodwink Hooks
Chapter 65 begins with, ‘Of old those who excelled in the pursuit of the way did not use it to enlighten the people but to hoodwink them’. Initially, I thought ‘of old’ referred to people, e.g., parents, politicians, preachers, gurus. On the other hand, these people often seem to be ‘hoodwinked’ by their own paradigm, […]
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