I Think The Best Evenings Are When

I Want To Change Awareness.

I Shouldn't Have Named The Chimps. It Wasn't Scientific. I Didn't Know. I Knew Nothing. And Worse Sin Of All Was That I Was Ascribing To Them Emotions Like Happiness, Sadness And So Forth.

We Can't Leave People In Abject Poverty, So We Need To Raise The Standard Of Living For 80% Of The World's People, While Bringing It Down Considerably For The 20% Who Are Destroying Our Natural Resources.

We Find Animals Doing Things That We, In Our Arrogance, Used To Think Was "just Human".

So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The 'global Village' We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance. There Was Absolutely No Harm In Being Part Of A Small Group - Indeed, With Our Hunter-gatherer Band Mentality It Gave Comfort, Provided Us With An Inner Circle Of Friends Who Could Be Utterly Trusted, Who Were Absolutely Reliable. It Helped Give Us Peace Of Mind. The Danger Came Only From Drawing That Sharp Line, Digging That Ditch, Laying That Minefield, Between Our Own Group And Any Other Group That Thought Differently.