This is the future event we should keep in mind when learned people tell us that personal virtue is not an answer to social ills. The effect of this saying is to keep people working at changing society without attempting the radical transformation of character. It pleads for a continuation of “life as usual,” which is precisely the source of the problem. Often, those who work in this way like to think of themselves as “radicals.” They fail to go to the root of social order and disorder, though. The only true “radical” is the one who proposes a different character and life for human beings.
