A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 355

355


Imagine the “mind” and its “awareness of reality” as something similar to standing at the edge of a pond, all of the autumn colors ... all of the creatures in our life shimmering in reflection upon it ... and where much of the luster of the reflection depends upon the purity of the water.  Now imagine that this reflection is our only view of this small world.  Would we not do everything we could to preserve the purity of the water?  ... blindly, as best we could, work the landscape, turn the woods into aviaries, tame the deer, kill only the closest snakes, let all distant predators run wild?  And would we not look back at ourselves and laugh at our former attempts at “self-improvement” ... by plunging our hands into the water?


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