Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.

In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.