"Changing Planes" by Ursula K. Le Guin . [short-stories]
★ People are always telling you that "we have always done thus," and then you find that their "always" means a generation or two, or a century or two, at most a millennium or two. Cultural ways and habits are blips, compared to the ways and habits of the body, of the race. There really is very little that human beings on our plane have "always" done, except find food and drink, sleep, sing, talk, procreate, nurture the children, and probably band together to some extent. Indeed it can be seen as our human essence, how few behavioral imperatives we follow. How flexible we are in finding new things to do, new ways to go. How ingeniously, inventively, desperately we seek the right way, the true way, the Way we believe we lost long ago among the thickets of novelty and opportunity and choice…
★ "They said, 'All that will change. You will see. You cannot reason correctly. It is merely an effect of your hormones, your genetic programming, which we will correct. Then you will be free of your irrational and useless behavior patterns.'
"But we answered, 'But will we be free of your irrational and useless behavior patterns?'
- “The Seasons of the Ansarac” by Ursula K. Le Guin.
[quotes], 2009, 2009: novela en castellano, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @leído en castellano, 2009: 3rd, author: Ursula K. Le Guin, [quotes] book