Stumble L_Altinterests ~ {hitodéamnw stumbleupon com/to/stumble/ao!? clientid=4544d41498010a385c3e4a8e43dte6bi&clent_tyoe=bookmark&version=1.0) crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And s0 to ling of the new paradigm, then we 54, “Our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world whatever degree any one of us, can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the buil participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that afterall is what i's really all about.” 55. “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.” 86. “What ci 6bi other's teeth in, It's not a pleasant situation.” mn people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and ki peach 57. “Culture is a perversion. It ftishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrel nish themselves and dehumanize themselves, ly cults. It invites people to di by behaving. 58, “Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are wel treated by culture.” 59, “Personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.” 660, “Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why itis given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is ‘Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control.” 61. “Ego isa structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, i the colleetivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.” 61. “You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the ‘universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.” 62. “The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and i's only because lege and so have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. Ify goto Bosnia oF Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.” 63. “We are so much the look at the thermostat.” tims of abstraction that the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and 64, “The cost of sa ys in this society, isa certain level of alienation.” 65. “The future of communication i the future of the evolution of the human soul.”