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The Myth of the Separate Self
Our whole civilization is built on this myth of the separate self. And what's happening with covid one way to look at this is that this myth is disintegrating, partly because everything we've built on it isn't working very well any more. We were supposed to be in paradise by now, technology and science. I mean, this promise of technological utopia goes back like, the eighteenth century,. And so the myth is breaking down, and i think it's one reason why so much of society has snapped back into orthodoxy"