DENIAL: SELF DECEPTION, FALSE BELIEFS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE HUMAN MIND..
Quote " ..... All major religions play on this and have evolved to
assuage our doubts. They tell us that even after we die we will continue
on in some other form, that there will be an after-life or another
life. Billions of humans accept this on faith, without a single shred of
evidence, because we are in denial of the reality of our mortality,
because our intuition insists and whispers reassuringly that we are
immortal. ........ We blithely dismiss the fact that we have irreparably
altered the environment, that there have been countless extinctions
within our lifetimes and many more to follow, that we have created an
economic model that thrives on inequity, exploitation and human
misery...... "
Quote " ..... All major religions play on this and have evolved to assuage our doubts. They tell us that even after we die we will continue on in some other form, that there will be an after-life or another life. Billions of humans accept this on faith, without a single shred of evidence, because we are in denial of the reality of our mortality, because our intuition insists and whispers reassuringly that we are immortal. ........ We blithely dismiss the fact that we have irreparably altered the environment, that there have been countless extinctions within our lifetimes and many more to follow, that we have created an economic model that thrives on inequity, exploitation and human misery...... "
Denial: Self-deception, False Beliefs, And The Origins Of The Human Mind
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This is a meaty book that merits being read slowly to digest its thought-provoking ideas.
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