Leadership does not depend on being right.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.