It's Hard To Be Decent

If Orange Trees Grew All Over The Country, You Couldn't Sell Oranges. Do You Understand That? So, All Our Decision Making Is Based Upon Scarcity Or The Availability Of Resources. If We Have A Shortage Of Any Kind Of Resource, We Put All The Labs To Work On Making Substitute Materials. People Always Worry About 'what If We Run Out Of A Certain Material?', But We Have Enough Technology Today To Make Thousands Of Different Substitutes.

We Are All An Integral Part Of The Chain Of Life.

Money Is Only Important In A Society When Certain Resources For Survival Must Be Rationed And The People Accept Money As An Exchange Medium For The Scarce Resources. Money Is A Social Convention, An Agreement If You Will. It Is Neither A Natural Resource Nor Does It Represent One. It Is Not Necessary For Survival Unless We Have Been Conditioned To Accept It As Such.

You Don't See The Plug Connected To The Environment, So It Looks Like We're Free, Wandering Around. Take The Oxygen Away, We All Die Immediately. Take Plant Life Away, We Die. And Without The Sun, All The Plants Die. So We Are Connected.

There Is No Such Thing As Beauty. If Your Culture Says, 'this Is A Beautiful Girl,' That's Within The Framework Of Your Culture. If You're Brought Up In An Island Where People Have Pointed Heads, That Would Be 'beautiful' In Your Terms. All These Mythological Structures Is What Gets Us Into Trouble; The Artificiality Of Our Values That Get Us Into Trouble.