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To The Ideal Of High Consumption And The Downgrading Of Spiritual Values Corresponds A Conception Of Injustice That Centers Exclusively On The Problem Of Consumption; And Equality In Consumption Cannot Be Achieved Except By Violence.

Belief Is Reassuring. People Who Live In The World Of Belief Feel Safe. On The Contrary, Faith Is Forever Placing Us On The Razor's Edge.

Thinking Has Become A Superfluous Exercise... Purely Internal, Without Compelling Force, More Or Less A Game.

If Man--if Each One Of Us--abdicates His Responsibilities With Regard To Values; If Each One Of Us Limits Himself To Leading A Trivial Existence In A Technological Civilization, With Greater Adaptation And Increasing Success As His Sole Objectives; If We Do Not Even Consider The Possibility Of Making A Stand Against These Determinants, Then Everything Will Happen As I Have Described It, And The Determinates Will Be Transformed Into Inevitabilities.

It Was With The Industrial Revolution, As Society Plunged Ever More Eagerly Into The Conquest Of Material Riches And Bent All Its Energies To The Accumulation Of Goods, That Material Poverty Became A Major Problem. Obviously, This Meant Abandonment Or Downgrading Of Spiritual Values, Virtue, Etc. To Share Or Not To Share In The Increase Of The Collective Wealth-this Was The Number One Question. It Was The Desire To Acquire Wealth That Prompted The Poor To Start Fighting.