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Marshall McLuhan:^ 'Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of envi¬ ronments elude easy perception

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009

I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude

Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain... See more

a more thorough and sensitive contact with our ’felt sense’ - that is, our kinesthetic, proprioceptive, spatial sense of orientation and move¬ ment - is a vitally important front on which to fight the battle for a more human use of human beings, and a better integration with the world around us.

he pro¬ gressive deadening of this ’felt sense’ in our children, whether through simple ignorance or by deliberate schooling, lends itself to a collective dissociation, which leads in turn to environmental and social decline

Marshall McLuhan:^ 'Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns of envi¬ ronments elude easy perception

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

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Oscar Wilde,

The Soul of Man Under Socialism