We Do Not Behave As If We

There Is Such A Thing As Food And Such A Thing As Poison. But The Damage Done By Those Who Pass Off Poison As Food Is Far Less Than That Done By Those Who Generation After Generation Convince People That Food Is Poison.

Low Pay Generally Means Harder Work Under Worse Conditions.

When The Sciences Are Supreme, Average People Lose Their Feeling Of Causality.

The Issue Is Not Whether People Are 'good Enough' For A Particular Type Of Society; Rather It Is A Matter Of Developing The Kind Of Social Institutions That Are Most Conducive To Expanding The Potentialities We Have For Intelligence, Grace, Sociability And Freedom.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.