To Think Straight, It Is

The Map Is Not The Territory (coined By Alfred Korzybski), And The Name Is Not The Thing Named.

In The Transmission Of Human Culture, People Always Attempt To Replicate, To Pass On To The Next Generation The Skills And Values Of The Parents, But The Attempt Always Fails Because Cultural Transmission Is Geared To Learning, Not Dna.

Perhaps The Attempt To Achieve Grace By Identification With The Animals Was The Most Sensitive Thing Which Was Tried In The Whole Bloody History Of Religion .

It Is, I Claim, Nonsense To Say That It Does Not Matter Which Individual Man Acted As The Nucleus For The Change. It Is Precisely This That Makes History Unpredictable Into The Future.

People Are Going To Have To Make Themselves Predictable, Or The Machines Will Get Angry And Kill Them.