Sublime

the inhabitants of Earth would have the insight and integrity to question their own conviction of centrality.

Most important, for globalisation to work as a catalyst of polymathic fertilisation, it must be real. One would assume (or at least hope) that in a ‘decolonialised’ and globalised twenty-first century, the Great Western Bias would have diminished. But it has not. Globalisation is not the proportionate fusion of all or many of the world's cultures a

However, it may well be that New York slum-dwellers and Kalahari hunter-gatherers experience mental states which we will never discover by forcing Harvard psychology students to answer long questionnaires

why on earth would we believe that a colonizing impulse would magically lead to universal prosperity this time around?

Having instincts tuned by evolution for a world in constant flux isn’t necessarily helpful in an era of industrial standardization.

humans still stand out by their failure to be clearly limited by a particular nature as other creatures are.

‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’

harnessing his individuality,