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The World as a Living Domain of Potential
I believe that that is the correct way of viewing the world, it’s not the dead matter of the eighteenth century rationalist or empiricist. It’s the living domain of potential that we interact with on a regular basis, from which, at least to some degree, we extract our own potential. [1]
There is this idea that came up in the 1960s that "You are OK as you are." I don't like that idea very much, and I think it's a bad idea. Especially when you are talking to young people who are lost and depressed and nihilistic and suffering, and aimless and ideologically possessed and prematurely cynical. You're not OK the way you are, especially if you're 18, you've got 60 years to put yourself together and you'd better be better at the end of that than at the beginning, or something has gone seriously wrong. So it's not an optimistic thing to tell people they are OK the way they are; it's a pessimistic thing, because what you do is to denigrate what they could be for what they are. And I know that he is a terrible idea technically.[2]
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