"I wonder what is meant when we use the word I. I have been very interested in this problem, and have come to the conclusion that what most civilized people mean by that word is a hallucination, a false sense of personal identity that is at complete variance with the facts of nature. As a result of having a false sense of identity, we act in a way that is inappropriate to our natural environment,...
and when that inappropriate way of action is magnified by a very powerful technology, we see a profound discord begin to separate man and nature as is well known, we are now in the process of destroying our environment as a result of an attempt to conquer it and master it. We believe that our environment is something other than ourselves, and in assuming that, we make a great mistake and are now paying the price." ~Alan Watts.
I have oft thought in a similar vein, yet never connecting to the concept of a false identity. Hmm. I'll have to agree, yet to figure out how to return to the 'real' or 'true-to-nature' selves is incredibly difficult in an instant, and may take generations before we could work/revert to a society of true "I's"
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