[b]Diane Ackerman
I don’t understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.[/b]
Fusses however are not unlike other things: in the mind of the beholder.
Why was it, she asked herself, that animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.
Sounds more like something that some might want to be true than in fact really is.
Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
Maybe, but it’s either warranted or it’s not.
One job of the unconscious is to act as a workshop for rough-shaping ideas; crafting notions as new parts or tools become available; storing observations until something relevant appears in the landscape – generally soaking, simmering, and incubating ideas. Gradually, while combing through its inventory, it finds bits and pieces that create a pattern. When it slips knowledge of that pattern to the conscious mind, it’s a surprise, like a telegram slid under the door.
Possibly, but how exactly will we know this for sure?
The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
Examples please.
Germany’s crime is the greatest crime the world has ever known, because it is not on the scale of History: it is on the scale of Evolution.
True, but what the fuck does that mean?!