Self-awareness. What is the ‘I’ when we use it? Whatever this idea of self is it has given rise in tandem with ego and vanity to absurd religious concepts that we are the centre of the universe and were made by a divinity. It also transfers itself to a belief that ‘we are right’ when we draw a conclusion which is by necessity uninformed because it is often too difficult to hold all the historical, sociological, agenda driven information needed to make a complete decision. And into this mix we have come up with an idea of ethics which benefits us but not the natural world which birthed us.
Against this mess some want to simplify everything but actually this mess, and whatever its outcomes, is the result of an animal trying to understand the universe. We may wipe ourselves out as well as all the animals on earth but in every case it is because we make profound decisions with profoundly poor knowledge.
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