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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game
Alan Watts Being in the Way
What Is Mental Health?
A healthy society is one which keeps a proper balance between law and whimsy. But this always escapes our capacity to enforce it, he says. We are apt to feel that people can't be trusted because we say the veneer of civilization is very thin. And when really critical events come up, even the most respectable people turn out to be savages. Little children, I've often heard people say, they're nothing but animals. And if you want to get these animals to have culture and to behave themselves, you've got to whip them. This is of course the philosophy of original sin.
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