The difficulty lies in trying to glimpse a future consciousness that far transcends our own, one that is not just cleverer than us but wiser too.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Most of the problems with humans can be boiled down to unchecked Primitive Minds getting their way against the Higher Mind’s better judgment.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
“You were not made to live like animals/But to pursue virtue and know the world,”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
We are just like animals – except, because of our greater self-awareness, even more unhappy.