"What the human world has been for millennia seems to be collapsing today. The new world, which arises as an instrument for the provision of existence, forces everything to serve it. It destroys that which has no place in it." - "There is no political freedom without the purification of the soul." - "The idea of democracy may never be fulfilled, but in moving toward it people become thinking and responsible. The task is not to be lulled by apparent calm, to believe in democracy, not to be influenced by 'hypnotic demagogues' and to work for the education of the next generation." Karl Jaspers
Before the upcoming Christmas holiday, every decent person should read the chapter from the book, The Question of Blaming Others. Realize what we have been living in, are living in, and what we should each do on our own so that we don't have to be ashamed of our lives - and the lives of future generations to whom we are not yet passing on much positive.
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