Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.