To Hell With The Future.

In Both Rich And Poor Nations Consumption Is Polarized While Expectation Is Equalized.

The True Miracle Of Modern Medicine Is Diabolical. It Consists In Making Not Only Individuals But Whole Populations Survive On Inhumanly Low Levels Of Personal Health.

The Goals Of Development Are Always And Everywhere Stated In Terms Of Consumer Value Packages Standardized Around The North Atlantic-and Therefore Always And Everywhere Imply More Privileges For A Few... Underdevelopment Is The Result Of A State Of Mind Common To Both Socialist And Capitalist Countries. Present Development Goals Are Neither Desirable Nor Reasonable. Unfortunately Antiimperialism Is No Antidote.

Even If Nonpolluting Power Were Feasible And Abundant, The Use Of Energy On A Massive Scale Acts On Society Like A Drug That Is Physically Harmless But Psychically Enslaving. A Community Can Choose Between Methadone And "cold Turkey"-between Maintaining Its Addiction To Alien Energy And Kicking It In Painful Cramps-but No Society Can Have A Population That Is Hooked On Progressively Larger Numbers Of Energy Slaves And Whose Members Are Also Autonomously Active.

Exporting Church Employees To Latin America Masks A Universal And Unconscious Fear Of A New Church. North And South American Authorities, Differently Motivated But Equally Fearful, Become Accomplices In Maintaining A Clerical And Irrelevant Church. Sacralizing Employees And Property, This Church Becomes Progressively More Blind To The Possibilities Of Sacralizing Person And Community.