A Human Strategy, aphorism 22


How desperately we humans want to be complex ... delight in our inability to see around the last fact when the shadow of that last fact is nothing other than our own vanity.  Anthropomorphism accounts for all of our confidence in the beyond, whether in religion, in metaphysics, or in a realist’s “philosophy.” 
I propose that we begin to worship this anthropomorphism for what it is.  Why not?  We will never get around it, and it accounts for the universal prayer of the species: “Something of me in this too.  Dear God!”  An unrelenting effort to expose the anthropomorphic in every leap away from our condition would create a suffering ... a passion unequaled by all religious attempts thus far: this effort not to leap would be equally impossible but would have authenticity on its side. 




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