<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Positive thinking will not repeal any of this.... > Positive thinking will not repeal any of this. Manifesting will not repeal it. A vision board will not repeal it. {{Forgiveness does not make a predator safe, compassion does not make a dominance contest evaporate, and repeating that everyone is doing their best does not mean everyone's best is survivable.}} {{A person can love you and compete with you. Need you and punish you. Desire you and terrorize you. Raise children and destroy them. Speak tenderly and calculate ruthlessly.}} {{Humans contain contradictions because animals contain strategies, and the strategy that looks like devotion under one set of conditions becomes possession, exclusion or violence under another, with no change in the animal, only a change in the weather.}} {{Love is one of the things the ape does. So is murder, and the ape does not consult you about which one is scheduled.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Positive thinking will not repeal any of this. Manifesting will not repeal it. A vision board will not repeal it. Forgiveness does not make a predator safe, compassion does not make a dominance contest evaporate, and repeating that everyone is doing their best does not mean everyone's best is survivable. A person can love you and compete with you. Need you and punish you. Desire you and terrorize you. Raise children and destroy them. Speak tenderly and calculate ruthlessly. Humans contain contradictions because animals contain strategies, and the strategy that looks like devotion under one set of conditions becomes possession, exclusion or violence under another, with no change in the animal, only a change in the weather. Love is one of the things the ape does. So is murder, and the ape does not consult you about which one is scheduled.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-positive-thinking-repeal-ape-consult-scheduled ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->