Without Free, Self-respecting, And Autonomous Citizens There

A Genuinely Fundamental And Hopeful Improvement In "systems" Cannot Happen Without A Significant Shift In Human Consciousness.

The Experience I'm Talking About Has Given Me One Certainty: The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And In Human Responsibility. Without A Global Revolution In Human Consciousness, Nothing Will Change For The Better, And The Catastrophe Toward Which This World Is Headed Will Be Unavoidable.

Isn't It The Moment Of Most Profound Doubt That Gives Birth To New Certainties? Perhaps Hopelessness Is The Very Soil That Nourishes Human Hope; Perhaps One Could Never Find Sense In Life Without First Experiencing Its Absurdity.

The Law Is Only One Of Several Imperfect And More Or Less External Ways Of Defending What Is Better In Life Against What Is Worse. By Itself, The Law Can Never Create Anything Better. Establishing Respect For The Law Does Not Automatically Ensure A Better Life For That, After All, Is A Job For People And Not For Laws And Institutions.

The Question Is Wholly Other, Deeper And Equally Relevant To All: Whether We Shall, By Whatever Means, Succeed In Reconstituting The Natural World As The True Terrain Of Politics, Rehabilitating The Personal Experience Of Human Beings As The Initial Measure Of Things, Placing Morality Above Politics And Responsibility Above Our Desires, In Making Human Community Meaningful, In Returning Content To Human Speech, In Reconstituting, As The Focus Of All Social Action, The Autonomous, Integral, And Dignified Human "i."