[extropy-chat] ENVIRO: Crichton on Nature and Man

[natashavita at earthlink.net]

From: Greg Burch 

"We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the
solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told
exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a
sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us
by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our
emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine
perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is
the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are
false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own
hopes and fears...."

Inspirational.  Thank you.

Natasha

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