Ultimately of course we cannot really know fully who we are. But we can know what we are not. We are definitely not the lonely, isolated, predatory egos we have been taught to think of ourselves as being; hurled into an alien universe, mere accidents of cosmic history, whose lives, like the cosmos itself, are pitifully devoid of meaning, purpose and value. We are not the playthings of necessity. Nor in our dealings with Nature are we merely detached observers, manipulative, tinpot gods – in our dealings with one another forever doomed to fight with and destroy one another. Power and pleasure
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