Man Is Small, And, Therefore, Small Is

By Means Of Trees, Wildlife Could Be Conserved, Pollution Decreased, And The Beauty Of Our Landscapes Enhanced. This Is The Way, Or At Least One Of The Ways, To Spiritual, Moral, And Cultural Regeneration.

Economic Policies Absorb Almost The Entire Attention Of Government, And At The Same Time Become Ever More Impotent. The Simplest Things, Which Only Fifty Years Ago One Could Do Without Difficulty, Cannot Get Done Any More. The Richer A Society, The More Impossible It Become To Do Worthwhile Things Without Immediate Payoff.

The System Of Nature, Of Which Man Is A Part, Tends To Be Self-balancing, Self-adjusting, Self-cleansing. Not So With Technology.

To Organize Work In Such A Manner That It Becomes Meaningless, Boring, Stultifying, Or Nerve-racking For The Worker Would Be Little Short Of Criminal; It Would Indicate A Greater Concern With Goods Than With People, An Evil Lack Of Compassion And A Soul-destroying Degree Of Attachment To The Most Primitive Side Of This Worldly Existence.

From A Buddhist Point Of View, This Is Standing The Truth On Its Head By Considering Goods As More Important Than People And Consumption As More Important Than Creative Activity. It Means Shifting The Emphasis From The Worker To The Product Of Work, That Is, From The Human To The Sub-human, Surrender To The Forces Of Evil.