“When we do allow self-evident truths to percolate past our defenses and into our consciousness, they are treated like so many hand grenades….We try to stay out of harm’s way, afraid they will go off, shatter our delusions, and leave us exposed to what we have done to the world and to ourselves, exposed as the hollow people we have become. And so we avoid these truths…and continue the dance of destruction.” -Derrick Jensen
