Why Precisely Do We Want To Change

Any Intelligent Fool Can Invent Further Complications, But It Takes A Genius To Retain, Or Recapture, Simplicity.

At Present, There Can Be Little Doubt That The Whole Of Mankind Is In Mortal Danger, Not Because We Are Short Of Scientific And Technological Know-how, But Because We Tend To Use It Destructively, Without Wisdom. More Education Can Help Us Only If Produces More Wisdom.

Perhaps We Cannot Raise The Winds. But Each Of Us Can Put Up The Sail, So That When The Wind Comes We Can Catch It.

From A Buddhist Point Of View, This Is Standing The Truth On Its Head By Considering Goods As More Important Than People And Consumption As More Important Than Creative Activity. It Means Shifting The Emphasis From The Worker To The Product Of Work, That Is, From The Human To The Sub-human, Surrender To The Forces Of Evil.

An Entirely New System Of Thought Is Needed, A System Based On Attention To People, And Not Primarily Attention To Goods. . . .