Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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