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In The Long Run, It Is Far More Dangerous To Adhere To Illusion Than To Face What The Actual Fact Is.
-David Bohm
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In The Long Run, It Is Far
David Bohm
In The Long Run, It Is Far More Dangerous To Adhere To Illusion Than To Face What The Actual Fact Is.
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The System [of Thought] Doesn't Stay With The Difficult Problem That Produces Unpleasant Feelings. It's Conditioned Somehow To Move As Fast As It Can Toward More Pleasant Feelings, Without Actually Facing The Thing That's Making The Unpleasant Feeling.
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This Kind Of Overall Way Of Thinking Is Not Only A Fertile Source Of New Theoretical Ideas: It Is Needed For The Human Mind To Function In A Generally Harmonious Way, Which Could In Turn Help To Make Possible An Orderly And Stable Society.
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And Thought Struggles Against The Results, Trying To Avoid Those Unpleasant Results While Keeping On With That Way Of Thinking. That Is What I Call 'sustained Incoherence.
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Thought Reflexes Get Conditioned Very Strongly, And They Are Very Hard To Change. And The Also Interfere. A Reflex May Connect To The Endorphins And Produce An Impulse To Hold That Whole Pattern Forther. In Other Words, It Produces A Defensive Reflex. Not Merely Is It Stuck Because It's Chemically So Well Built Up, But Also There Is A Defensive Reflex Which Defends Against Evidence Which Might Weaken It. Thus It All Happens, One Reflex After Another After Another. It's Just A Vast System Of Reflexes. And They Form A 'structure' As They Get More Rigid.
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So One Begins To Wonder What Is Going To Happen To The Human Race. Technology Keeps On Advancing With Greater And Greater Power, Either For Good Or For Destruction.
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