“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Containing Multitudes

Thank you Dirk. You know this already--humans are sets of things that aren't them. But this spells it out quite powerfully.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o'_war

Maybe we're all zooids. We (humans) are certainly gas-filled bladders.