Our Country, If That Is What We

Technological Measures Are Important, But Equally Important Is... A Consciousness Of The Commonality Of All Living Beings And An Emphasis On Shared Responsibility.

A Person Who Has Been Seduced By The Consumer Value System, Whose Identity Is Dissolved In An Amalgam Of The Accouterments Trappings Of Mass Civilization, And Who Has No Roots In The Order Of Being, No Sense Of Responsibility For Anything Higher Than His Own Personal Survival, Is A Demoralized Person. The System Depends On This Demoralization, Deepens It, Is In Fact A Projection Of It Into Society.

People Who Live In The Post-totalitarian System Know Only Too Well That The Question Of Whether One Or Several Political Parties Are In Power, And How These Parties Define And Label Themselves, Is Of Far Less Importance Than The Question Of Whether Or Not It Is Possible To Live Like A Human Being.

If Every Day A Man Takes Orders In Silence From An Incompetent Superior, If Every Day He Solemnly Performs Ritual Acts Which He Privately Finds Ridiculous, If He Unhesitatingly Gives Answers To Questionnaires Which Are Contrary To His Real Opinions And Is Prepared To Deny His Own Self In Public, If He Sees No Difficulty In Feigning Sympathy Or Even Affection Where, In Fact, He Feels Only Indifference Or Aversion, It Still Does Not Mean That He Has Entirely Lost The Use Of One Of The Basic Human Senses, Namely, The Sense Of Humiliation.

If I Have Accomplished Anything Good, Then It's Mainly Because I've Been Driven By The Need To Know Whether I Can Accomplish Things I'm Not Sure I Have The Capacity For.