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Harassment Is About Power---the Undue Exercise Of Power By A Superior Over A Subordinate.

The Characteristic Human Trait Is Not Awareness But Conformity, And The Characteristic Result Is Religious Warfare. Other Animals Fight For Territory Or Food; But, Uniquely In The Animal Kingdom, Human Beings Fight For Their 'beliefs.' The Reason Is That Beliefs Guide Behavior, Which Has Evolutionary Importance Among Human Beings. But At A Time When Our Behavior May Well Lead Us To Extinction, I See No Reason To Assume We Have Any Awareness At All. We Are Stubborn, Self-destructive Conformists. Any Other View Of Our Species Is Just A Self-congratulatory Delusion.

One Of The Most Difficult Features Of Direct Experience Is That It Is Unfiltered By Any Theories Or Expectations. It's Hard To Observe Without Imposing A Theory To Explain What We're Seeing, But The Trouble With Theories, As Einstein Said, Is That They Explain Not Only What Is Observed, But What Can Be Observed. We Start To Build Expectations Based On Our Theories.

Sometimes Women Scare The Hell Out Of Me.

Malcolm: A Karate Master Does Not Kill People With His Bare Hands. He Does Not Lose His Temper And Kill His Wife. The Person Who Kills Is The Person Who Has No Discipline, No Restraint, And Who Has Purchased His Power In The Form Of A Saturday Night Special. And That Is Why You Think That To Build A Place Like This Is Simple. Hammond: It Was Simple. Malcolm: Then Why Did It Go Wrong?