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"In any given culture... I mean let us face it, we are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of our culture, without our culture we just couldn't do anything at all, we should be baboons, apes. But any given culture is ambivalent. It permits one to be fully human, but at the same time it limits our humanity, I mean... it imposes certain kinds of prejudices, certain kinds of likes and dislikes upon us. But I think it's perfectly true to say that any self-actualising human being is one who, to some extent, breaks out of his culture. After all one sees that in fact all the great seers and religious prophets have always broken out of their culture. I mean... needless to say that "love thy neighbour as thyself" is breaking out of a narrow culture that insists that you should love only this person and that everybody else is not your neighbour. And I think we have too see that these people who have broken out of their culture, the seers and the prophets, are essentially right!"
Aldous Huxley
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http://youtu.be/F-0I-hG5PEU
