for - key insight - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton - adjacency - existential polycrisis - roots of anthropomorphism in the written language - Deep Humanity BEing journeys that explore how language constructs our reality

key insight / summary - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - The Greeks defined the soul - The Genesis story established that we were the chosen species and all others are subservient to us - From that story, domination of nature becomes the social norm, leading all the way to the existential polycrisis / metacrisis we are now facing - This underscores the critical salience of Deep Humanity to the existential polycrisis - exploring the roots of language and how it changes our perceptions of reality - showing us how we construct our narratives at the most fundamental level, then buy into them

• for: the lack project, the reality project, sense of lack, sense of self, poverty mentality, polylcrisis, polycrisis - root
• paraphrase
  • the irony is that
    • if this desire
    • if this craving for money
    • if this lack project and
    • we could also call it reality project
      • because another way to talk about all this is to say that we don't feel real enough and we're looking for that which somehow will make us feel more real more complete more whole
  • because whatever the lack project may be it is looking for out something outside
    • that's going to secure this sense of self-inside
  • the tragedy of the whole process is that it doesn't matter how much money you earn
    • it's never going to be enough
    • because what we're dealing with is just a symptom and not the core problem
• key insight
  • the lack project is at the root of our polycrisis