This may seem an overly familiar posting judging from the way it begins, but it is not merely a "Let's all get behind the environmentalist cause!" rant.

See how the birds fly. How economical is grace! Why should people fly, when it costs so much to fly without such grace? How did effort become a virtue? Nature never made any bipolar creatures, and punishment and reward, misery and relief, pain and pleasure, etc., have no place in evolution. Evolution is pure passion. Arrogance, audacity, fickleness; these are such unsustainable attitudes! Along with the greed that cultivates them: please eat more, fly more, burn more, etc.; and of course, work more, as if more work did not ravage more.

Can we discover why people have to eat an amount their bodies actually resent? Why they have to smoke, or drink or take pills? Is it so hard to love the world, to love living, to find it profound, to be fulfilled in the sane and universal way? It is not the world that bores a person so that he becomes restless and must fritter away the waking hours with familiar vices, even though the conscious, where the thinker resides and decides what the world is made up of, would refute this. It is the person’s upbringing makes it seem boring, which is to say, family, neighbors, teachers, preachers and the various media which bring us the celebrities from politics and entertainment. His upbringing has adapted him to ignore the profound and submerge himself in the sea of human endeavor, the sea of things that require the push of advertising agencies, things that cloud ones view of the cosmic depth of what evolution had accomplished before man became the next extinction level event.

If we truly mean to save the world, to restore the dignity of Earth and the star that still bothers to keep it warm, we must obviously reinvent the civilized man and woman. We must produce a generation of people who do not miss the real beauty of living, so that they don’t have to burn up the world as an opiate.

There is not one man or woman on Earth who can truthfully say, "I believe education and upbringing should lead to people thinking the kind of thoughts that constantly run through my head each day.”. (I stress the word truthfully!) Human thought, once it has become a private indulgence (which is usually shortly after puberty), is actually an affliction. Presumably we have all heard a little of the dissection of it: Messiah Complex, Superiority Complex, Superego, etc. Thought circulates around one thing, self, and actually presumes the existence of a God who agrees with this fixation, saying, "Yes, you and only you are also My only concern!".

There are extremely few men and women who could even say, truthfully, that they believe education and upbringing should lead to the more careful and disciplined reasoning processes they have achieved, the conclusions they have reached. So, to be honest, we all have to admit that it has not been working. We were educated, brought up, and it was not at all done rightly. The teachers won, and the students lost.

People have made a lot of money on us, despite this failure to cultivate our humanity. When people make a lot of money on something the ones who gain this money get together as a ruling or governing body and say, "Oh, look! It’s working perfectly!”. How does it happen that such reckless reasoning governs education and upbringing? Of course it is our own fault for being such sheep, and our own fault for assuming that the only other thing there is to be is a wolf.

How does one save a child from this petrified and fossilized kind of education and upbringing? To begin with, by not subjecting him to the words and devices we produce from our thoughts! Thought gives us things to say and do. To not say and do them is the seed of seriousness. The younger the child is the more horrid the offense of thinking about what to say and do to him.