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(Stages of personal civilization)  

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We’ve had some [[wonderful]] [[discussions]] this evening.  I did want to give you a sense of the [[development]], not only of the way each [[individual]] recapitulates [[evolution]] as an [[embryo]], but also recapitulates the [[evolution]] of [[culture]] as they grow up through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood childhood] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescence], all the way from the constantly warring [[primitive]] [[tribal]] level--[[think]] of your little two- and three-year-olds squabbling out in the sandbox with, fortunately, the inability to do one another in--all the way up through your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian Machiavellian] plotting of high school gangs; to, hopefully, each [[person]] continuing to [[grow]] beyond their [[parents]]’ [[generation]]’s [[understanding]].  Each [[individual]]’s [[maturity]] adds to the [[society]]’s [[maturity]] as well--ever more [[free]]; ever more allowing of each [[individual]]’s [[freedom]] because it is accompanied with [[responsibility]]--deeply caring for each other, wanting to be able to [[respond]] to another.

We’ve had some [[wonderful]] [[discussions]] this evening.  I did want to give you a sense of the [[development]], not only of the way each [[individual]] recapitulates [[evolution]] as an [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo embryo], but also recapitulates the [[evolution]] of [[culture]] as they grow up through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood childhood] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescence], all the way from the constantly warring [[primitive]] [[tribal]] level--[[think]] of your little two- and three-year-olds squabbling out in the sandbox with, fortunately, the inability to do one another in--all the way up through your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellian Machiavellian] plotting of high school gangs; to, hopefully, each [[person]] continuing to [[grow]] beyond their [[parents]]’ [[generation]]’s [[understanding]].  Each [[individual]]’s [[maturity]] adds to the [[society]]’s [[maturity]] as well--ever more [[free]]; ever more allowing of each [[individual]]’s [[freedom]] because it is accompanied with [[responsibility]]--deeply caring for each other, wanting to be able to [[respond]] to another.

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