Chris’s Reviews > The Sane Society > Status Update

For many people the age of thirty of forty is much more appropriate for learning - in the sense of understanding rather than for memorizing - than school or college age, and in many instances the general interest is also greater at the later age than at the stormy period of youth.

Originally, majority rule was an alternative to minority rule, the rule by the king or feudal lords. It did not mean that the majority was **right** . it meant that it is better for the majority to be wrong than for a minority to impose its will on the majority.

Unless man exploits others, he has to work in order to live.

... our intelligence helps us to produce weapons which our reason is not capable of controlling. Indeed, we have the know-how, but we do not have the know-why, nor the know-what-for.

Even from the nineteenth century to our day, there seems to have occurred an observable increase in stupidity, if by this we mean the opposite to reason, rather than to intelligence. In spite of the fact that everybody reads the daily paper religiously, there is absence of understanding of the meaning of political events which is truly frightening.

Money represents labor and effort in an astract form

Work is becoming more repetitive and thoughtless as the planners, the micromotionists, and the scientific managers further strip the worker of his right to think and move freely. Life is being denied; need for control, creativeness, curiosity, and independent thought are being baulked, and result, the inevitable result , is flight or fight .