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Outsider in My Own Country (Part 3 of 13)
What it’s like to be different from most of my co-citizens in many ways
3. Widened world view based on my extensive travels
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Michael Crichton in Travels
In the previous section, about prizing cooperation, I mentioned that I subscribe to the belief that all humanity is one, and that the factors that separate us are arbitrary and random. This belief serves as the…
