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You have stayed on the outside looking in this entire time. It all makes perfect sense. However your linear logic is missing the forest for a single tree. Somehow the heart is missing. If only you could do the same thing but from the inside looking in…

The intellect is not the gateway to the solution. It is the problem. An entirely different perceptual approach is called for.

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There is an internal dimension to allowing and submitting to hierarchy, to accepting coercion, and adapting to exploitation - as individuals and culturally. It is worthy of deeper exploration, although my many attempts have rarely resulted in an article on the subject, although my articles ‘The Moral Question’, ‘The Myth Of Merit’ and ‘Are We Born Evil’ touch upon aspects of it.

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