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The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the
specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf
between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority
justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the
way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing
whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is
not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people.
The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an
army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary
specialness.
- Daniel Quinn
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