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6 The Mountain of Diamond Inferiority

Exploring Tomorrow · June 4, 1958 · 20 min · 2,632 words

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Now step into the incredible, amazing future as we go exploring tomorrow. And now here is your guide to these adventures of the mind, John Campbell Jr. Hate and love are really quite close to each other.

Usually hate stems from a misunderstanding of something which properly understood would make love. One of the concepts that many people don't see, miss, just get all wrong is the fact that there is superiority and there is inferiority.

But those things are specialized and narrowed into special areas. If you don't recognize them, the system won't work at all. If you do recognize them, well, you know, each must then recognize two things, that he is superior and that he's inferior.

This is a story of a man who hadn't learned, hadn't found out the importance of special superiority and special inferiority. Well, are you ready for a drink? My name is not Philip. My name is Senga.

What? Nothing. You better drink this. Thanks. Last night on Earth for some time to come. Better yet, to this house where I was born, to the green mountains and jungles we've loved and hunted in, to all this we leave behind.

I was looking at her. There she's beautiful. The brightest planet of the world. She's dark and she's ugly. Not from this distance. From here, no. But she's ugly. The ancients didn't think so. When they named her Venus.

They never got there. No. But you did. You've been there. Tomorrow you'll be on your way. We both will. Sen, you've never talked much about the place. I told you it's hot. Very hot. Animals?

A great many. But I saw only a few. You mostly only hear them. Once I wanted to go hunting, your father said no. You couldn't forget I was Indian. You and I have hunted here, so don't talk rot.

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