WHAT KEEPS US creating, as societies, a world that we as individuals abhor, a world violating our deepest values and common sense? Why is poverty deepening and climate chaos quickening even though solutions to each are known? These are the most puzzling, most critical questions of our time.

In large measure, the answer lies in the nature of human perception. Through human eyes there is no unfiltered reality. As creatures of the mind, we form ideas that have enormous power to determine what we can see, what we cannot, and therefore what we believe to be possible. Our ideas shape mental maps that ...

 

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