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“...we demean ourselves and our potentialities When we take an unrelievedly pessimistic view of our fate. Yet equally we demean ourselves when we nourish ourselves on illusions. The social and cultural order that we have built and are continuing to build about us—our present—is one predominantly determined by the categories of a false philosophy and its practical application; and the consequence of our acquiescence on such a mass scale to what amounts to a lie about ourselves and the true nature of the physical world cannot but be an increasing divorce between this order and that of the human and natural norm. In fact, this divorce has now become so great that it is virtually impossible for the one to understand the other. We have all but lost the capacity to measure how far we have in fact fallen below the level of the human and natural norm.” — Philip Sherrard