The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that … - Howard Lyman

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The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

Howard Lyman

The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

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