Every Move We Make In Fear Of

Desired Substance, Things, Patterns, Or Sequences Of Experience That Are In Some Sense "good" For The Organism - Items Of Diet, Conditions Of Life, Temperature, Entertainment, Sex, And So Forth - Are Never Such That More Of The Something Is Always Better Than Less Of The Something. Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

The Wise Legislator Will Only Rarely Initiate A New Rule Of Behaviour; More Usually He Will Confine Himself To Affirming In Law What Has Already Become The Custom Of The People.

People Are Going To Have To Make Themselves Predictable, Or The Machines Will Get Angry And Kill Them.

The Only Way Out Is Spiritual, Intellectual, And Emotional Revolution In Which, Finally, We Learn To Experience First Hand The Interloping Connections Between Person And Person, Organism And Organism, Action And Consequence.

There Is A Strong Tendency In Explanatory Prose To Invoke Quantities Of Tension, Energy, And Whatnot To Explain The Genesis Of Pattern. I Believe That All Such Explanations Are Inappropriate Or Wrong.