The world we are living in is unifying itself
at a prodigious rate.
And this is not the will of institutions.
Andy 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 their
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 assertion,
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 ego.
The central of 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, so 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 the political world, the resources,
even the infrastructure will not be there
to support this kind of an reorienting of
our thinking.
If you state your self-identity on the aggrandizement
of a single atom of humanity, which you call
your Self, then 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.
