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Myth And Poetry Represent A Reservoir Of Vertical Thinking, Which We Could Also Call Longing And Gratitude To Ancestors. We Need That Gratitude Desperately.

If We Call The Young Ones, Say 10 To 30 Years Old, 'siblings,' We Can See They Tend To Be Naturally Ecological. They Regard Whales And Owls As Siblings Too. That's A Great Advance.

Adolescents Believe That The World Belongs To The Living, Or More Particularly To Living People Their Age, So They Feel Within Their Rights If They Destroy The Canon Or Rewrite The Fairy Stories Or Act Like Red Guards.

Vertical Thought Likes To Imagine The Vast Distances Between The Stars.

Sociological Prose Can Tell You Everything, But It Can't Point Out The Grief.