How we place ourselves in the world is a daily choice

The New Atlantis » GPS and the End of the Road: "We seem likely only to continue to misunderstand the source of our disappointment — as some inherent shortcoming in the world, rather than a problem in how we place ourselves in it."

There are shortcomings in our world. And they do affect our placement in it. The answer is not how, because that implies that the earth is fixed and all we need to do is adapt. We are homo faber. We make the world. Our choices narrow as our experience reveals that what we have made has liabilities we did not anticipate. (As in sprawl, for example.) The solution lies in active engagement to change the environment we have made.



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