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The following is an excerpt from a book of quotations that I want to publish in the very near future. I hope you discover - for yourself - the wisdom in these words. Conditioning: Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. - Paul Carvel If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe. - A church sign in Northern Ireland The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in

Our culture is NOT a particularly healthy one, and if one's culture makes one live unhealthily and confused and ALL the rest of it, then it is a BAD thing to conform to it and become it. Most become it because it is the easy path to take. The difficult path is to look at the disorder, and become Order. The ego is FERVENTLY held in reverence in our society, and when the ego is revered, as it is, then of course there will be discord and violence everywhere. There's absolutely no balance between self and group, secularly, and we are deteriorating because of this. What can be done? Well, we need a profoundly different way of living. A balanced