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| | Can Humanity Learn How to Swim? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | When a child learns how to swim, it often walks on the bottom until the water is almost above its head. |
 | | Then it tries to swim, flounders, tries again, looses its footing and gets water over its head, tries again and again, and finally finds the right way of moving to stay afloat without having to rely on the reassuring support of the ground beneath. |
 | | We must learn how to swim, with all the trials and temporary setbacks that it implies, until we find a way to stay afloat without having to rely on our old instincts, perceptions and bodies. |
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