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This is where the idea of race came into play.

John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love

as if human existence were an evolutionary stage that could soon be left behind.

Megan Fritts • A Matter of Words

The Enlightenment Trap

Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart

Wild type – the wild type is adapted for the niche of just nature. Human beings where primary problems are associated with survival in nature. The wild type developed consciousness in the context of culture, to produce a culture that is adapted to a niche.

Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4

But the answer “black” immediately carries a heavy load, and a number of potentially violent actions—that would have been unlikely otherwise—suddenly become psychologically possible. You don’t just lecture or book this type of body or take it down to the station. It would have no respect for you if you did that—after all, it is more than used to

Zadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays

The reduction of science to mathematics means also, in our scientific age, the reduction of human action to behavior. Not only are machines becoming more human and taking over more of our human tasks, but also we humans are becoming ever more calculable, rational, and machine-like. It is now not unlikely that in near future the boundary dividing... See more

Human Being in an Inhuman Age

When human beings first developed the capacity to walk and run it was either to chase after something or to escape something. That energy of chasing and running is deeply ingrained in every cell of our body. But today there is no longer the same need to hunt, fight, or escape from danger, and yet we still walk with that kind of energy. We have

Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy

As great as civilization may be, 500 generations isn’t enough time for evolution to take a shit. So now we’re all here living in this fancy new habitat, using brain software optimized to our old habitat.