TIGHT THINKING FROM DAVE | 2008-05-20
Aldous Huxley used to say, "Differences among 'human beings' are so great that it is astonishing they breathe the same air."
Huxley was considered a "lefty", so go figure how a man who could utter such a statement gets the "lefty" label.
Huxley was an opponent of Wordism and committed to real science. He considered the term "mankind" to be a profound distortion of the truth.
We are all "primates", yes, and can share language, yes, let us leave it at that.
The differences among us are enormous. They can't even be measured in terms of light years for there are qualitative differences among "men" that create an unbridgeable separation among them.
That, in fact, is the way the world works. Never lose sight of it.