The question is, can you do would B did? "What exactly do you have in mind?" "You took in their insights, but do you have any of your own? Are you a … - Daniel Quinn

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you’re enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today—and promise population control tomorrow.

I closed my eyes and found the interior rooms of my head quite thoroughly deserted.

A few years ago, when I begin speaking to audiences, I have the rather naive idea that it would be sufficient—indeed entirely sufficient—to say each thing exactly once. Only gradually did I understand that saying a thing once is tantamount to not saying it at all.