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David Loye Quotes

1925–2022

David Elliot Loye (April 26, 1925 – January 25, 2022) was an American author, psychologist, and evolutionary systems scientist.

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Most important is that Darwin recognized that when it comes to human evolution, we shift from purely biological to cultural evolution.

The perspective is that we are a sick nation. We must take a social-psychiatric perspective on the healing of the nation.

You go to church on Sunday, you tithe and go there on the holidays. But in the meantime, the other six days of the week, the orientation is screw your neighbor. Instead of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” it has become, “Do unto others before they can do it unto you.” That’s the regressive dominator morality.

The academics get paid for teaching whatever limited understanding they have to a fresh crop of little people who are yearning for a larger picture. What they get too often is a succession of tame disciples imprisoned within barriers to the larger vision.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Loye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.