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The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. . . . Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed. (…) Most people are helped by the perception mechanism itself: most of the blocking that shapes our lives works independently of human wishes and intentions. Still many are bothered not by perceptions but by events in nature and society, and they react accordingly – they try to 'block off' what disturbs them. For them the world is still too complicated and they want simplify it further.
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. . . . Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed. (…) Most people are helped by the perception mechanism itself: most of the blocking that shapes our lives works independently of human wishes and intentions. Still many are bothered not by perceptions but by events in nature and society, and they react accordingly – they try to 'block off' what disturbs them. For them the world is still too complicated and they want simplify it further.
Conquest of Abundance, Chicago – London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. pp.3-4.
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