We Are Living in a Hypocrite Society
“One of the most fundamental things to be always remembered is that we are living in a hypocrite society.
“Once, a great philosopher was asked: ‘What do you think of civilization?’ The philosopher said, ‘It is a good idea, but somebody has to change the idea into a reality. Civilization has not happened yet. It is a dream of the future.’
“But the people who are in power — politically, religiously, socially — are in power because civilization has not happened. A civilized world, a mature man, needs no nations — all those boundaries are false — needs no religions, because all those theologies are simple fictions. The people who have been for thousands of years in power — the priests, the politicians, the super-rich, they have all the powers to prevent human evolution. But the best way to prevent it is to convince man, ‘You are already civilized’, to convince man, ‘You are already a human being. You need not go through a transformation, it is unnecessary.’
“And man’s weakness is that knowing perfectly well there exists no such thing as civilization, there exists no such thing as human sensitivity, still he starts believing in all the lies that the politicians have been speaking, the priests have been preaching, the educationists have been teaching — because it seems simpler to just believe, you don’t have to do anything for it. To…