Culture Hides More Than It

I May Be Able To Spot Arrowheads On The Desert But A Refrigerator Is A Jungle In Which I Am Easily Lost. My Wife, However, Will Unerringly Point Out That The Cheese Or The Leftover Roast Is Hiding Right In Front Of My Eyes. Hundreds Of Such Experiences Convince Me That Men And Women Often Inhabit Quite Different Visual Worlds. These Are Differences Which Cannot Be Attributed To Variations In Visual Acuity. Man And Women Simply Have Learned To Use Their Eyes In Very Different Ways.

Shakespeare Reveals Human Nature Brilliantly: He Shines A Light On Our Instinctive Desire To Dominate Each Other.

We Are Only Peripherally Tied To The Lives Of Others. It Takes A Long Long Time For Us To Become Deeply Involved With Others, And For Some This Never Happens.

It Is Never Possible To Understand Completely Any Other Human Being; And No Individual Will Ever Really Understand Himself - The Complexity Is Too Great And There Is Not The Time To Constantly Take Things Apart And Examine Them.

By Their Very Nature Bureaucracies Have No Conscience, No Memory, And No Mind.