Terry Real
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What is in my interest?
A 10-second message or a 20-minute conversation?
I'm busy.
What do I want to do here?
And this is how we have to start thinking.
We're not individuals.
That's the great fallacy.
We're living in a context.
Our relationships are biospheres.
We're not separated from them, we're in them, and it's in my interest to do what the biosphere needs because I'm inside it.
That's the new news.
That's my message to the world.
The great mistake this culture has made, the father of family therapy, Gregory Basin, an anthropologist married to Margaret Mead, genius man, called it humankind's epistemological, philosophical mistake, that we stand outside of nature.
You know, I get these big burly, I deal with tough guys.
I get these burly, why should I have to work so hard to please my wife?
I go, knock, knock, you live with her.
It's like we have lost the wisdom of ecology.
You're in this.
together, you know, indigenous people around the world understand this.
We don't.