This series of essays represents philosopher Alan Watts' thinking
on the confounding problems of our relation to our material
environment. In it, Watts argues that modern people confuse symbol
with reality, as well as ways of describing and measuring the world
with the world itself. Thus we put ourselves into the absurd
situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead
of the dinner. With our attention locked on numbers, concepts, and
technology, we are increasingly unconscious of nature and of our
total dependence on air, water, plants, animals, insects, and
bacteria.We have hallucinated the notion that the so-called
"external" world is a cluster of "objects" separate from ourselves,
that we "encounter" it, that we come into it instead of out of it.
Consequently, our species is fouling its own nest and is in
imminent danger of self-obliteration. In this classic work, a
philosopher best known for his writings and teachings about
mysticism and Eastern philosophy gets down to the nitty-gritty
problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, housing, and
the rest of the world around us.
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