liberation is not revolution. It is not going out of one's way to disturb the social order by casting doubt upon the conventional ideas by which peop… - Alan Watts

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liberation is not revolution. It is not going out of one's way to disturb the social order by casting doubt upon the conventional ideas by which people hold together. [...]
To disabuse oneself of accepted mythologies without becoming the victim of other people's anxiety requires considerable tact.

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.

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Alternative Names: Alan Wilson Watts Alan W. Watts
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All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country.

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