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Home Obituary Philosophy Books Photographs Visitors' Book "Life is a Sum Humanity is Doing Wrong" My opening proposition from which the book stems is this:- If civilisation and population are allowed to continue unmodified on their present expansionist courses it will cause ecological catastrophe which will destroy that civilisation and most of that population. Humanity, in common with all life, obeys a survival instinct which causes it to pursue its own best interests. We developed the stone axe and civilisation to serve those interests, and it worked. It worked so much better than the efforts made by any other species that it is upsetting the balance of nature upon which everything depends for survival. Including us. Thus civilisation does not, any longer, serve our best interests. It threatens them. And yet we are bred and conditioned to perceive civilisation as normal, as comprising and enshrining all the values, motives and goals that for us constitute normality. To have to perceive normality as wrong, because it threatens our survival, is what makes it so difficult for us to think how to do anything about it. So all we do is to try to titivate it, hoping to keep it going, more or less as it is because that is the normal thing to do. Normality, then, is the name of The Sum we have done so wrong.
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