The Future For Us Is The Foreseeable

I May Be Able To Spot Arrowheads On The Desert But A Refrigerator Is A Jungle In Which I Am Easily Lost. My Wife, However, Will Unerringly Point Out That The Cheese Or The Leftover Roast Is Hiding Right In Front Of My Eyes. Hundreds Of Such Experiences Convince Me That Men And Women Often Inhabit Quite Different Visual Worlds. These Are Differences Which Cannot Be Attributed To Variations In Visual Acuity. Man And Women Simply Have Learned To Use Their Eyes In Very Different Ways.

I Have Found The Study Of Organisms To Be A Truly Exciting Experience, Always Interesting And Sometimes Humbling.

Because We Have Put Ourselves In Our Own Zoo, We Find It Difficult To Break Out.

We Should Never Denigrate Any Other Culture But Rather Help People To Understand The Relationship Between Their Own Culture And The Dominant Culture. When You Understand Another Culture Or Language, It Does Not Mean That You Have To Lose Your Own Culture.

We Live Fragmented, Compartmentalized Lives In Which Contradictions Are Carefully Sealed Off From Each Other. We Have Been Taught To Think Linearly Rather Than Comprehensively, And We Do This Not Through Conscious Design Or Because We Are Not Intelligent Or Capable, But Because Of The Way In Which Deep Cultural Undercurrents Structure Life In Subtle But Highly Consistent Ways That Are Not Consciously Formulated.