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David, your comment to me yesterday, that I was no longer being kind, was extremely
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helpful to me, no, profoundly helpful to me.
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Thoughts like kindness and charity have long been more than troubling for me, but I haven't
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gotten as close as I did yesterday to putting my finger on it.
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We are mammals.
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We are mammals, higher or lower species, depending upon how one might look at it.
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Mammals are environmental adaptive machines, that's how they survive.
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They are so neurologically attuned.
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And they so neurologically attune themselves to the environment, that they are one with
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it, and as near as we can tell, they don't have the ability to detach from that.
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They don't have the neurological capacity, whatever circuits are involved, in understanding
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themselves as separate.
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They don't have the ability to detach from the environment, let alone superior to the
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environment.
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And of course, we humans do.
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And somehow, mercifully, so-called primitive humans, aboriginal species, aboriginal tribes,
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before they get corrupted, don't know how to understand themselves.
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And that's a wonderful thing, as separate from the environment and the life exchange
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with the environment.
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And then comes complex humanities last.
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And we have developed cultures that wind up being our trainers, that train us, we are
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not mammals.
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And it's not that that's the message, but that's what they do.
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They train us that we are not mammals.
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We are not hardwired into the life exchange with the environment.
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That we can, and even that it's right to become life extractors from the environment.
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Not exchangers.
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But extractors.
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And we can look around us and see how that's working out.
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In a way, I'm sharing this with you, David, out of respect.
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You got me further down this track with your comment yesterday, which is very helpful.
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I am not inviting a reply.
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I am not inviting a dialogue.
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And I'm not expecting you will have listened to this
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far, and certainly not listened deeply with a willingness to learn if there's something
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here to be learned.
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Because you haven't done that up until now, from what I can see.
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You hear what I say, you put it into some box you already have.
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It's not safe and nice, safe and secure.
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No threat of it.
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Expanding your understanding.
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As your comment to me expanded my understanding yesterday, you don't seem to do that.
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I think enough of you to tell you this, because I think you could transcend what I'm saying
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if it is substantially correct.
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And I think you would be more joyful for it.
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Anyway, back to what I was sharing, other mammal species and Aboriginal tribes have
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not gained the capacity.
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To transcend their mammalian-ness, which in ourselves we call our humanity.
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We don't create our humanity.
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We destroy within ourselves our humanity, but we don't create it any more than we created
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our eyesight, or our hearing, or our sense of smell.
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They are DNA-given capacities.
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So when thinking at virtue.
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The first thing we do is we turn ourselves, we turn our children into environment exploiters,
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not life exchangers with the environment.
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That is a fundamentally different way of being.
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It is a ... it is the way of being where inhumanity is a virtue.
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The way of being is divergent from that which is inhuman by nature.
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The way of being is divergent.
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The way of being is divergent.
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Non-humanity, anti-humanity is a virtue, but in many of us, less so those at the top of
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the culture who get there exactly by being the most expert at being anti-human, starting
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with that which is inside of them.
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In far too many of us, to their liking, there are vestiges of our DNA-given humanity left,
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and unless they are sufficiently anesthetized with harmless outlets, they might cause the
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humanity to become reawakened.
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And that is the central role of kindness.
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It is a meaningless subset of our humanity, which is goodness, righteousness, solidarity,
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forgiveness, understanding, as in deep understanding of living systems, and what it means for all
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We are about to be the first to experience a state of joy, a state of happiness, a state
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of suffering, a state of happiness.
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We are about to experience a state of hunger, a state of thirst, a state of hunger for the
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puberty.
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The context is that while we are about to experience the state of suffering, it is
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almost impossible to experience it.
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We are bound to experience it in human beings, in human cultures, in human beings.
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is vulnerable, it requires hosts in whom the DNA given humanity is all but dead, comatose,
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as anesthetized as they possibly can make it.
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