The Salvation Of The World Lies In

A Person Who Has Been Seduced By The Consumer Value System, Whose Identity Is Dissolved In An Amalgam Of The Accouterments Trappings Of Mass Civilization, And Who Has No Roots In The Order Of Being, No Sense Of Responsibility For Anything Higher Than His Own Personal Survival, Is A Demoralized Person. The System Depends On This Demoralization, Deepens It, Is In Fact A Projection Of It Into Society.

There Appear To Be No Integrating Forces, No Unified Meaning, No True Inner Understanding Of Phenomena In Our Experience Of The World. Experts Can Explain Anything In The Objective World To Us, Yet We Understand Our Own Lives Less And Less. In Short, We Live In The Postmodern World, Where Everything Is Possible And Almost Nothing Is Certain.

There Is Only One Thing I Will Not Concede: That It Might Be Meaningless To Strive In A Good Cause.

None Of Us Know All The Potentialities That Slumber In The Spirit Of The Population, Or All The Ways In Which That Population Can Surprise Us When There Is The Right Interplay Of Events.

Our Country, If That Is What We Want, Can Now Permanently Radiate Love, Understanding, The Power Of The Spirit And Of Ideas. It Is Precisely This Glow That We Can Offer As Our Specific Contribution To International Politics.