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“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”

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Book:Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture
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“Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.”

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Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
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“If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.”

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Book:Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future
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“For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.”

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Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
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