To Hell With The Future.

The Re-establishment Of An Ecological Balance Depends On The Ability Of Society To Counteract The Progressive Materialization Of Values. The Ecological Balance Cannot Be Re-established Unless We Recognize Again That Only Persons Have Ends And Only Persons Can Work Towards Them.

Even If Nonpolluting Power Were Feasible And Abundant, The Use Of Energy On A Massive Scale Acts On Society Like A Drug That Is Physically Harmless But Psychically Enslaving. A Community Can Choose Between Methadone And "cold Turkey"-between Maintaining Its Addiction To Alien Energy And Kicking It In Painful Cramps-but No Society Can Have A Population That Is Hooked On Progressively Larger Numbers Of Energy Slaves And Whose Members Are Also Autonomously Active.

The Compulsion To Do Good Is An Innate American Trait. Only North Americans Seem To Believe That They Always Should, May, And Actually Can Choose Somebody With Whom To Share Their Blessings. Ultimately This Attitude Leads To Bombing People Into The Acceptance Of Gifts.

School Has Become The World Religion Of A Modernized Proletariat, And Makes Futile Promises Of Salvation To The Poor Of The Technological Age.

I Believe That A Desirable Future Depends On Our Deliberately Choosing A Life Of Action Over A Life Of Consumption, On Our Engendering A Lifestyle Which Will Enable Us To Be Spontaneous, Independent, Yet Related To Each Other, Rather Than Maintaining A Lifestyle Which Only Allows To Make And Unmake, Produce And Consume - A Style Of Life Which Is Merely A Way Station On The Road To The Depletion And Pollution Of The Environment. The Future Depends More Upon Our Choice Of Institutions Which Support A Life Of Action Than On Our Developing New Ideologies And Technologies.