The Essential Alan Watts by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781568612348
Google: ESxrAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1568612346
Published: 2019-10-14T16:27:06+00:00

The More Things Change

other people who are very much in the wrong place. Through having this succession of comparisons, you know that you’re OK.

Other animals and insects have exactly the same understanding of this arrangement. “Well:’ you say. “insects and things like fishes, they don’t have any culture: what do you mean fishes are entitled to consider themselves in the same way as humansr’ Let me present the aigUlllent from the fishes’

point of view. Fishes think, “Human beings are a mess: look at what they do: they can’t exist without cluttering themselves and carrying around all kinds of things outside their bodies: they have to have houses and automobiles and books and records and television and hi-fi equipment and stuff, endless stuff. and they litter the earth with rubbish:’

Consider a dolphin’s point of view (he isn’t really a fish but a mammal) of the human race. Dolphins spend most of their time playing: they don’t work because the grocery is right there in the ocean, whatever they need. A dolphin will catch up with a ship and get on the wake, putting its tail at an exact angle of 26°, and be carried along. The dolphin will make circles around the ship just for fun. playing all its life in the watet We know that a dolphin’s brain is as big if not bigger than ours, that it is incredibly intelligent. and that it has a language which we can’t dedphet The person who knows most about dolphins. Dt John Lilly. is a friend of mine and he said he came to the conclusion that dolphins were too smart to tell us their language. So he abandoned this project. He said he would no longer keep such a highly dvilized being in the concentration camp of a zoo, and that it should go back to the ocean. The point is, that every being, not only dolphins, but

organism that has any sensitivity in it whatsoever.

itself to be the center of the universe.

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