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A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Even Ideologies Ideology Institution Nor Processes Rather Relations Scientific Structure Symbiotic System Unconscious World

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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Cannot Catastrophe Domain Embodied Emergence Experienced Failure Feel Felt Imagination Often Sensation Stimulated

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For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Cultural Culture Enough Evolution First First Time Global Human Human Evolution Individual Individual Life Life Long Mind Now Player Swift Time Transformation

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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Acceleration Billions Change Emergence Evolution Further Human Human Evolution Language Millions Over Place Rate Time Took Years

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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Amidst Because Chaos Dangerous Hysterical Idealism Idealistic Love Order Own Rage Roots Simply Unbalanced

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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Complete Ideologies Living Map Processes World

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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Create Destiny Fate Inflicted Will You Your

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In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Black Cops Domain Economy Market Serve Shadow Structure

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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Artificial Consequences Culture Institution Intelligence Located Longer Make Mistake National Now Simply Within

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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

~ William Irwin Thompson

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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Actions Alienated Conscious Divorced Expressed Feeling Generation Imagination Karma Process Reflected Thinking Unconscious

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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Chaos Conscious Control Disruption Effect Nature Purpose Science Unconscious

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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Abstract Chaos Control Holds More Science Systems

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The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Being Culture Cultures Description History Ideally Increasingly Live Our Past Performance Should Simply Taking Teacher Which Work

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Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Conscious Emerge Independent Purpose Unconscious

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

~ William Irwin Thompson

Centuries Change Civilization Emergence Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Knowing Millennia Rate Science Shifted Thousands Thousands Of Years Universe Way Years

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