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T R U T H H Q

12. The View from the

Mountaintop

If there’s one thing that could be said about human nature, it’s that we’re fickle! We pride ourselves on rationality, but to be rational is a hard-fought battle. But there are ways to look at things that might offer us a bit of hope – might offer some common ground for co-operation rather than competition…

If you’re someone who wants to figure out the fickleness of human nature, then perhaps there’s no better place to start than with our sense of the sacred. Or actually, to start with what we find profane – a desecration, a violation. There are many strange examples of this. One is the reaction people have to strange clothing – or the lack of clothing altogether. Or perhaps it’s a person’s race or sexual orientation that offends. A person thus offended will get angry in often a completely incoherent way. The pre-frontal cortex is by-passed and they emit strange utterances straight from the reptilian brain! We could say, it’s pure emotion – a

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