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An Attitude To Life Which Seeks Fulfillment In The Single-minded Pursuit Of Wealth - In Short, Materialism - Does Not Fit Into This World, Because It Contains Within Itself No Limiting Principle, While The Environment In Which It Is Placed Is Strictly Limited.

After All, For Mankind As A Whole There Are No Exports. We Did Not Start Developing By Obtaining Foreign Exchange From Mars Or The Moon. Mankind Is A Closed Society.

That Soul-destroying, Meaningless, Mechanical, Moronic Work Is An Insult To Human Nature Which Must Necessarily And Inevitably Produce Either Escapism Or Aggression, And That No Amount Of 'bread And Circuses' Can Compensate For The Damage Done-these Are Facts Which Are Neither Denied Nor Acknowledged But Are Met With An Unbreakable Conspiracy Of Silence-because To Deny Them Would Be Too Obviously Absurd And To Acknowledge Them Would Condemn The Central Preoccupation Of Modern Society As A Crime Against Humanity.

Economic Development Is Something Much Wider And Deeper Than Economics, Let Alone Econometrics. Its Roots Lie Outside The Economic Sphere, In Education, Organisation, Discipline And, Beyond That, In Political Independence And A National Consciousness Of Self-reliance.

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.