false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223648290m/60561.jpg 60561 6 This is a series of essays representing philosopher Alan Watts's most recent thinking on the astonishing problems of man's relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner.<br><br>Thus, with his attention locked upon numbers and concepts, man is increasingly unconscious of nature and of his total dependence upon air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria. He has been hallucinated into the notion that the so-called "external" world is a cluster of "objects" separate from himself, that he "encounters" it, that he comes into it instead of out of it. Consequently, our species is fouling its own nest and is in imminent danger of self-obliteration.<br><br>Here, a philosopher whose works have been mainly concerned with mysticism and Oriental philosophy gets down to the "nitty-gritty" problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing. 58920 1958 Does It Matter? total:93|5:27|4:39|3:25|2:2|1:0| 93 370 158 5 5 0 false false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 10:23:10 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 12 07:41:24 -0800 2009
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This book is pretty dated, largely evidenced by the numerous analogies to "bringing pleasure to a beautiful woman," but his thesis is still pertinent--that we ignore materials in favor of symbols of reality..."we'd rather eat the menu than the me...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 18:17:22 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 18:21:27 -0700 2008
His best article here is the first one: Wealth Versus Money. I also liked his short piece of Dr. Suz...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 09:57:09 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 09:58:14 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 12:53:21 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 28 18:03:41 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Nov 27 23:46:58 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 23:46:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 23 08:00:54 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 07:16:03 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 07:16:03 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 08 08:36:28 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 08:36:28 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Oct 27 23:44:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 23:44:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 07:25:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 07:25:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 12:37:24 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 12:37:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 08:50:27 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:50:27 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 13 17:23:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 17:23:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 22:20:21 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 22:20:21 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 10:56:32 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 10:56:32 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 10:43:30 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 10:43:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 01:47:33 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 01:47:33 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 08:07:57 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 08:07:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Aug 22 18:29:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 18:29:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 21:25:50 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 21:25:50 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=60561