5.RESPONDING—FACILITATING EXPLORING
Yes, our cultural conditioning trained us to avoid relating. And it was wrong! Wrong because the so-called “competitive ethic” no longer works—and never was an ethic! Wrong because there is no such a thing as independence—never was, as any recently laid-off workers will testify! Wrong because things change! We were sold a lie in the 20th century. It said, “Be independent and competitive people and the system will reward you.” We have found out otherwise. By not relating, we have not been related to. The system has rewarded us in kind by not relating to us.
NON-RELATING 
NON-RELATIONAL
In fact, the course of civilization ...
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