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The world we are living in is unifying itself at a prodigious rate and this is not the will
of institutions and be made reference to what a con this drug war is because it's making
so much money for so many people. The chief function of institutions appears to be to
retard progress and to keep variant criminal enterprises bubbling merrily along on the
side. Meanwhile the rest of us, the masses of people struggling to come to terms with
the end of history can see, can feel that what we need is a sense of unity. Not an idea
of unity, not an ideology of unity because if there ever was an ideology of unity it
was communism and the pieces are still falling from the explosion of that system of thought.
We need a feeling, of unity. Feeling is primary. So it doesn't come out of intellectual exhortation,
it comes out of a personal act of courage made by the individual. An act of courage
which involves surrender. Surrender is the opposite side of the coin of Ego. The central
issue of our times is our inability to surrender to what we know is right. We have the ability
to feed the hungry. We have the ability to educate our children, to clean up our environment,
to eliminate sexism, to eliminate racism. The question is can we change our minds fast
enough. Not can we change our minds, but can we change them fast enough. The momentum of
the institutions that were created out of the collapse of Medieval Society has become
so great the momentum toward a lethal conclusion that if we don't act quickly to pull ourselves
out of this power dive. Eventually a political will, the resources, even the infrastructure
will not be there to support this kind of a reorienting of our thinking. If you state
your self identity on the agrent diasmond (?) of a single atom of humanity which you
call your self, than what hope is there for creating a coherent communal future. None
I submit, and I believe that's the position that we are in. We need a radical intervention
in the evolution of our social psychology.