On going with the flow

Offers a comment on the reason conventional values are not working today and have been driving the ecosystem toward collapse. The fatality of clinging to unchanging values in a rapidly changing world; From 'American Psychologist,' Vol. 48, No. 8.

By Roger W. Sperry, published on January 01, 1994

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"The reason conventional values are not working today an have been driving our entire ecosystem toward collapse is because the starting assumptions are wrong for modern times. Human values are not absolute; they are not immutably prefixed by natural law or divine ordination. Human values by nature are evolutionary, interrelated, and conditional on the context in which they evolve. To cling to unchanging values in a rapidly changing world can be fatal." Roger W. Sperry, Ph.D., in American Psychologist (Vol. 48, No. 8)

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