Living Through The 1929 Great Depression Helped

In A Monetary System, Most Of Us Live Near Our Work With A House, Car, And Lifestyle We Can Afford (or, All Too Often, Cannot Afford), Rather Than The One We Prefer. We Are Only As Free As Our Purchasing Power Permits. Even Many Wealthy People Today Select A Residence Mainly To Impress Others With Their Status. Lacking A True Sense Of Self Worth, Many Live To Impress Others.

We Have To Ask Ourselves What Kind Of World We Want To Live In.

The Majority Of The People Of The World Today Are Unsane, Not Insane, Unsane Meaning Having Been Exposed To Methods Of Evaluation That Have Long Rendered Obsolete.

As Man Reaches Out Toward The Twenty-first Century, He Will Learn To Be Suspicious Of All Ideas That Are Not Formulated So That They Can Be Tested By Observation. He Will Realize That The History Of Human Thought Shows That The Ideas Of Which We Are Surest Are The Ones We Most Need To Test. He Will Realize That His Common Sense Only Mirrors His Training And Experience. What Seems Natural And Right To Him Is Usually A Reflection Of The Conditions Under Which He Spent His First Decade Of Life.

We Are Not Taught To Be Thinkers, But Reflectors Of Our Culture. Let's Teach Our Children To Be Thinkers.