You Can't Be Conscious Unless You Have

If Orange Trees Grew All Over The Country, You Couldn't Sell Oranges. Do You Understand That? So, All Our Decision Making Is Based Upon Scarcity Or The Availability Of Resources. If We Have A Shortage Of Any Kind Of Resource, We Put All The Labs To Work On Making Substitute Materials. People Always Worry About 'what If We Run Out Of A Certain Material?', But We Have Enough Technology Today To Make Thousands Of Different Substitutes.

So, "normal" Is Really What Society Dictates As Normal And If We're Born In That World, We Would See That As Normal. But If You Think About It For A Second, Is It Really?

Working With Drug Addicts, Alcoholics, And So-called Juvenile Delinquents In New York City Convinced Me That Instead Of Working With Individuals, More Effective Methods Would Deal With The Societal Conditions That Create Dysfunctional Behaviors In The First Place.

If Technology Does Not Liberate All People For The Pursuit Of Higher Aspirations In Human Achievement, Then All Its Technical Potential Will Be Meaningless.

Money Is Only Important In A Society When Certain Resources For Survival Must Be Rationed And The People Accept Money As An Exchange Medium For The Scarce Resources. Money Is A Social Convention, An Agreement If You Will. It Is Neither A Natural Resource Nor Does It Represent One. It Is Not Necessary For Survival Unless We Have Been Conditioned To Accept It As Such.