The insanity of excessive industrialism is that it creates
problems it cannot solve and then asks society to expend
itself on its behalf.
Prevailing governments must then, through taxation of the
common man or creation of fictitious money, subsidize all
major industrial production units and guarantee their profits
and their existence.
With excessive commercialism man limits and constrains
himself to a few things for which he labors endlessly.
By giving an unending array of commercial products an
inordinate value, he places himself at their altar and subordinates
his whole being to their use and care.
In the face of his avid inventiveness and industriousness, he
inherits more problems than he does happiness.
They hire a devil to make things work out.
When the system stops working,
when the plant is losing money,
when people stop buying junk,
They hire a devil.
And the devil does the trick.
He cuts corners.
He fires people.
He makes people work harder.
He makes everyone cringe at his presence.
For the devil gets results,
no matter whom he hurts
or what he destroys.
But he always saves the system.
Let there be untold numbers of services,
rendered by all who need or wish to render,
for the purposes of survival, need, duty, honor, responsibility;
services out of self-expression and love;
performed with diligence, efficiency, conscientiousness,
integrity, and enthusiasm.
But let not services be performed
for a master by a slave,
for an owner by a serf,
for a profiteer or parasite
by some naïve, ambitious performer.
Far Beyond Words 