Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality

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This can be a series of essays representing philosopher Alan Watts’s most up to date thinking at the astonishing problems of man’s relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu as an alternative of the dinner.

Thus, together with his attention locked upon numbers and concepts, man is an increasing number of unconscious of nature and of his total dependence upon air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria. He has been hallucinated into the notion that the so-known as “external” world is a cluster of “objects” separate from himself, that he “encounters” it, that he comes into it as an alternative of out of it. Because of this, our species is fouling its own nest and is in imminent danger of self-obliteration.

Here, a philosopher whose works have been basically enthusiastic about mysticism and Oriental philosophy gets down to the “nitty-gritty” problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing.

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