He has also observed that «This process of coming to see other human beings as «One of us» rather than as «them» is a matter of detailed description of what unfamiliar people are like and of redescription of what we ourselves are like. (religion-online.org)
Not to be lost in this attempt at continual redescription of ourselves is an abiding sense of irony that our starting - point in language is largely the result of historical factors and our feelings of solidarity have no basis beyond that of our own subjective experience. (religion-online.org)
To set ourselves to reject the older gods, spirits, fairies is actually to renounce all «moral mysteries» and to claim the same power of radical redescription for ourselves: If Nature no longer offers any obstacle to human projects, no threat of violence against those who slaughter the cattle of the sun or cut down sacred groves, then the world is ours to remake as we will. (firstthings.com)