A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.