These are mortals and with mortals we have a certain eternal patience. Nothing is as it was. Curb your strength. Curb your old mortal envy and spite. They have no place here. Do you not realize the power you have now? What is at stake here is the rest of your family. Many philosophers all agreed in the most severe criticism of the modern culture and most of them visualized the possibility of the advent of an age of barbarism. They had a premonition that the people would no longer believe in principles, but would probably believe in a savior. We are under no illusions and do not expect to wake up one morning to see the resurrection of freedom in our country, as it by a stroke of magic. Enough individuals as well as nations have to become interested in civilization and true enlightenment. The former is easy and meets with approval; the latter requires rigorous efforts. Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives. This World is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! If the laborer gets no more than wages which one’s employer pays one, one is cheated, one cheats oneself. If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular which is to go down perpendicularly. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

 The aim of the laborer should be, not to get one’s living, to get a good job, but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a person who does your work for money, but one who does it for love of it. The ways in which most people get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shrinking of the real business of life—chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better. Do we call this the land of the free? If we continue the salves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? It is a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children’s children who may perchance be really free. We tax ourselves unjustly. There is a part of us which is not represented. It is taxation without representation. We quarter troops, we quarter fools and cattle of all sorts upon ourselves. We quarter our gross bodies on our poor souls, till the former eat up all the latter’s substance. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

Those things which now most engage the attention of mortals, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like corresponding functions of the human body. Our life is not altogether a forgetting, but also, alas! to a great extent, a remembering, of that which we should never have been conscious of, certainly not in our waking hours. Why should we not meet, not always as dyspeptics, to tell our bad dreams, but sometimes as eupeptics, to congratulate each other on the eloquence of the ever-glorious morning? This is not an exorbitant demand, surely.  In modern industrial society the individual and the group have ceased to function satisfactorily; they live in a condition of anomie, that is, a lack of meaningful and structuralized social life; the individual follows more and more a restless movement, a planless self-development, an aim of living which has no criterion of value and in which happiness lies always in the future, and never in any present achievement. The ambition of mortals, having the whole World for one’s customer, becomes unlimited, and one is filed with disgust, with the futility of endless pursuit. #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

As a result, a genuine social order has disappeared, the state emerging as the only collective organizing activity of social character. The individual, free from all genuine social bonds, finds oneself abandoned, isolated, and demoralized. Society becomes a disorganized dust of individuals. Many workers in modern industry do not give their best energies because they lack interest in their work, owing to their nonparticipation in control. The only way out of the crisis of modern society, a change in moral values. As we try to understand the role of emotion in our lives, we know that our feelings and moods often act as motivational factors. Our feelings and moods can cause us to want or need certain things; they cause us to do certain things in order to being about what we desire. Whether the need to attack or hurt others is an innate motive or a learned one is still being debated. The arguments for the innate point of view are derived from studies of lower animals, which seem to be born with a drive to attack any animal that enters their territory or threatens their young. Other arguments for it come from the observations that extreme situations can overcome great amounts of cultural conditioning, so that a well-mannered, even pacifistic (the belief that war or any kind of fighting is morally wrong) person might, under the right conditions, be made to fight and even kill. #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

Apparently there are aggression centers in the midbrain that can be electrically stimulated, forcing the person to act aggressively. However, there appear to exist equally powerful inner forces that lead to nonaggressive, highly cooperative behaviors. The average person, we are sure, is convinced that aggression is probably an innate force in human beings, since we see so much of it in the World around us, and so little cooperation and self-sacrifice. Industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interest, which no single interest, and least of all the provision of the material means of existence, is fit to occupy. Like a hypochondriac who is so absorbed in the process of one’s own digestion that one goes to one’s grave before one has begun to live, industrialized communities neglect the very objects for which it is worthwhile to acquire riches in their feverish preoccupation with the means by which riches can be acquired. It is a poison which inflames every wound and turns each trivial scratch into a malignant ulcer. Society will not solve the particular problems of industry which afflict it, until that poison is expelled, and it has learned to see industry itself in the right perspective. It must regard economic interests as one element in life, not as the whole of life. It must persuade its members to renounce the opportunity of gains which accrue without any corresponding service, because the struggle for them keeps the whole community in a fever. #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

We must learn to organize industry that the instrumental character of economic activity is emphasized by its subordination to the social purpose for which it is carried on. Just as our political and economic studies have for the past 300 years tended to take account only the economic functions involved in living, so also in our actual living we have inadvertently allowed pursuit of economic development to lead us in a condition of extensive social disintegration. It is probable that the work of a mortal does represent one’s most important function in the society; but unless there is some sort of integral social background to one’s life, one cannot even assign a value to one’s work. The belief of the individual in one’s social function and solidarity with the group—one’s capacity for collaboration in work—these are disappearing, destroyed in part by the rapid scientific and technical advance. With this belief, one’ sense of security and of well-being also vanished, and one begins to manifest those exaggerated demands of life where money is king. Very little progress has been made in understanding of the problem. Whereas, in the material and scientific spheres we have been careful to develop knowledge and technique, in the human and sociopolitical, we have contented ourselves with haphazard guess and opportunists fumbling. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

We are faced with the fact, then, that in the important domain of human understanding and control we are ignorant of the facts and their nature; our opportunism in administration and social enquiry has left us incapable of anything but impotent inspection of a cumulative disaster. So we are compelled to wait for the social organism to recover or perish, without adequate medical assistance. The major error of the last two centuries is that a total society can be organized upon an economic motive, upon profit. It has demonstrated that humans do not live by bread (money) alone. Because the corporation can offer only bread or cake, it has proved incompetent to meet the demands of the good life. Real societies possess meanings that give some substance of idealism to mortals in their journey between mortal and eternal life. Those meanings cannot be embraced by expanding the economic motive. If the corporation is to survive, it will have to be endowed with a moral role in the World, not merely an economic one. From this point of view, the challenge to management is salutary and hopeful. It is a route, perhaps the only available one, for saving the values of our democratic society, and the contemporary industrial system as well. In some way, the corporation and its labor force must become one corporate group and cease to be a house divided and seemingly at war. #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

The most deadly criticism one could make of modern civilization is that apart from its human-made crises and catastrophes, it is not humanly interesting. This is the primary focus of news, especially local news, which is why so many people are tuning out and their popularity is in decline. In the end, such a civilization can produce only a mass mortal: incapable of choice, incapable of spontaneous, self-directed activities: at best patient, docile, disciplined to monotonous work to an almost pathetic degree, but increasingly irresponsible as one’s choices become fewer and fewer: finally, a creature governed mainly by one’s conditional reflexes—the ideal type desired, if never quite achieved, by the advertising agency and the sales organizations of modern business, or by the propaganda office and the planning bureaus of totalitarian and quasi-totalitarian governments. Now this mechanical chaos is plainly not self-perpetuating for it affronts and humiliates the human spirit; and the tighter and more efficient it becomes as a mechanical system, the more stubborn will be the human reaction against it. However, we must never abandon the material benefits we have gained from technology and mass production and specialization of tasks. Yet, if we create a class of workers denied the satisfactions of significant work, we shall never achieve the ideals of America. #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

We shall not be able to maintain the ideals of the American Dream if we do not apply every tool of government, education, and industry to the improvement of the human abilities of those who are our rulers—the hundreds of millions of ordinary men and women. The part of this task assigned to management is the provision of working conditions which will release the creative instinct of every worker, and which will give play to one’s divine-human ability to think. The picture of an automatized World is clearly insane and yet it only differs somewhat in a degree to the reality of 2019. The result, pretty obviously, will be a series of economic and social changes unprecedented in rapidity and completeness. All existing patterns of human life will be disrupted and new patterns will have to be improvised to conform wit the non-human fact of automatization. If humankind does not fit well, that will be just too bad for humankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputation as have been going on ever since applied science really got into its stride, only this time they will be good deal more drastic than in the past. A really efficient totalitarian state is one which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

To make society love their servitude, it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, the fake news media, newspaper editors, and schoolteachers. However, their methods are still and unscientific. However, without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence. Nonetheless, I assume that the all-powerful executive and its managers will succeed in solving the problem of permanent security. To heal society, we need more programs such as assertiveness training. Assertiveness includes many behaviors that formerly were called aggressive: risk-taking, self-affirmation, declaring your own opinion, taking the lead, initiating action, and promoting your own wishes and desires in a respectful and logical way. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial and other influences which are at its disposal. This unnatural ways of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from person to person and relies solely on the truth of our thoughts and the hearer’s receptiveness for new truth. Unarmed, and following the human spirit’s primitive and natural fighting method, it must attack the other, which faces it, as Goliath faced David, in the mighty armour of the age. #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

Will the people of today have strength to carry out what the spirit demands from them? High achievers tend to need immediate feedback. They need some indication of how they are doing so they can modify their actions in order to reach their achievement goals. The goals are usually self-established. While such people are often successful in terms of money or power, their primary needs are to set and reach their own personal—not corporate goals. They see such goals as personal challenges, tests of that they are capable of doing. High achievers are found in the business and commercial World, of course, but just as often they may be found in positions of creative leadership in the military, art, science, and other fields. In the over-organized societies which in a hundred ways have one in their power, one must somehow become once more an independent personality and so exert influence back upon them. They will use every means to keep one in that condition of impersonality which suits them. They fear personality because the spirit of truth, which they would like to muzzle, find in it a means of expressing themselves. And their power, is unfortunately, as great as their fear. #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

There is a tragic alliance between society as a whole and its economic conditions. With a grim relentlessness those conditions tend to bring up the mortal of today as a being without freedom, without self-collectedness, without independence, in short as a human being so full of deficiencies that one lacks the qualities of humanity. And they are the last things that we can change. Even if it should be granted us the spirit should begin its work, we shall only slowly and incompletely gain power over those forces. There is, in fact, being demanded from the will that which our conditions of life refuse to allow. And how heavy the task that the spirit has to take in hand! It has to create the power of understanding the truth that is really true where at present nothing is current but propagandist truth. It has to depose ignoble patriotism, and enthrone the noble kind of patriotism which aims at ends that are worthy of the whole humankind, in circles where the hopeless issues of past and present political activities keep nationalist passions a glow even among those who in their hearts would fain be free from them. It has to get the fact that civilization is an interest of all mortals and of humanity as a whole recognized again in places where national civilization is today worshipped as an idol, and the notion of a humanity with a common civilization lies broke to fragments. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

The spirit has to maintain our faith in the civilized State, even though our modern States, spiritually and economically ruined by war, have no time to think about the tasks of civilization, and dare not devote their attention to anything but how to use every possible means, even those which undermine the concept of justice, to collect money with which to prolong their own existence. It has to unite us by giving us a single idea of civilized mortals, and this is a World where one nation has robbed its neighbour of all faith in humanity, idealism, righteousness, reasonableness, and truthfulness, and all alike have come under the domination of powers which are plunging us ever deeper into barbarism. It has to get attention concentrated on civilization while the growing difficulty of making a living absorbs the masses more and more in material cares, and makes all other things seem to them to be mere shadows. It has to give us faith in the possibility of progress while the reaction of the economic on the spiritual becomes more pernicious every day and contributes to an ever growing demoralization. High achievers are not necessarily good or bad people, nor are their actions necessarily moral or immoral. They are simply motivated by one dominate need. Of course, high achievers, like others, may utilize means that other consider good or bad, or they may skirt the borders of propriety and legality. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

And for many high achievers the end—their own personal goal—often justifies the means, and the only immorality is not making it. However, the  spirit has to provide us with reasons for hope at a time when not only secular and religious institutions and associations, but the mortals, too, who are looked upon as leaders, continually fail us, when artists and mortals of learning show themselves as supporters of barbarism and notabilities who pass for thinkers, and behave outwardly as such, are revealed, when crisis come, as being nothing more than writers and members of academics. We cannot allow advanced technology to become a sin against the Holy Ghost. All these hinderances stand in the path of the will to civilization. A dull despair hovers about us. We are now bewildered by our experience of life. We hear enticing voices which say to us that the one thing which can still make life tolerable is to live for the day. We must, we are told, renounce every wish to think or hope about anything beyond our own fate. We must find rest in resignation. The recognition that civilization is founded on some sort of theory of the Universe, can be restored only through a spiritual awakening, and a will for ethical good in the masses of humankind. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

This compels us to make clear to ourselves those difficulties in the way of a rebirth of civilization which ordinary reflection would overlook. However, at the same time it raises us above all considerations of possibility or impossibility. If the ethical spirit provides a sufficient standing ground in the sphere of events for making civilization, if we return to a suitable theory of the Universe and the convictions to which this properly gives birth. Human beings cannot block off any important biological or emotional aspect of experience without developing an equivalent amount of inner anxiety. Where there is an obsession, we can assume some equivalent repression. A behavior pattern continues as long as it proves itself functional, succeeds in meeting certain needs effectively and efficiently. Many people are alarmed by the divorce rates, nearly 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Many sincere and mature social scientists are wondering of our traditional marriage patterns are not moving toward dysfunctionality. The churches take over the religious teaching that originally was the job of the parent. The society is providing economy security and law enforcement takes care of physical security. Society is beginning to accept the job of caring for the illegitimate child and the older adult, so the family’s legitimizing function is not quite so important any more. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

Schools are taking over most of the socialization functions, as are peer groups and some religious groups. What is left for the family to do? Possibly the most important function still remains: to provide a situation in which deep affection and physical desires can be legally and morally expressed. There is really nothing wrong with our present marriage patterns. However, the ways in which we have come to regard human relationships do not fit into the ways in which traditional marriage patterns insist that we view them. Traditionally, two people are supposed to have all their needs met by each other. However, the World is much larger, more crowed today. Both husband and wife travel further from the family hearth than they did even twenty years ago. The social and companionship needs of each are often well met by other people; yet the spouse who is not involved often feels hurt or left out. Even when a couple does not every try occupational, hobby, recreational and companionship needs can be met by a variety of people other than the spouse. No one should expect one person to meet all one’s needs, nor should any one person expect that he or she can or ought to meet all the needs of one’s spouse. #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

A healthy marriage, a happy, actualizing married, is one in which two whole persons come together because they have much to share. They desire each other as person, intimately, and as companions. They also know that each of them, being whole and significant, is capable of meeting many of one’s own needs. It is also a happy realization that neither partner expects the other to be all things to him or her. Limitations and strengths are accepted and the two people try to lead realistic lives. Because of their mutual respect and affection, this can bring them into an even closer union. Their love relationship can grow and they can grow because of it. The other people in their lobes—fellow workers, friends, children, relatives—enter into the relationship, but not into the deepest part of it: that is the private shared World of the two people. “For it is by faith that miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that Angels appear and minister unto people; wherefore, if these things have ceased wo be unto the children of mortals, for it is because of their unbelief, and all is vain,” reports Moroni 7.37. A tremendous amount of human misery is caused by a lack of love. Not only do people not love other people; they do not love themselves. Others, having no love for themselves, play love-games with other people. Humankind needs a few more people with healthy self-love, who also love others, who can live—not die. #RandolphhHarris 17 of 17