We Live In A Society Where The Egocentric Pursuit of Fulfillment Has Been Made Respectable

Competition, ambition, and success are the gods of the particularly prosperous society we live in today.


The whole management and coaching industry are the new religious institutions that preach these gods.

You want juvenile delinquency to become respectable, that’s all.

You do not tackle the roots of the problem, which is to stop this whole process of war, of maintaining an army, of being ambitious, of encouraging competition.

These things, which are rooted in our hearts, are the fences of society within which there is revolt going on all the time on the part of both the young and the old.

The problem is not only that of juvenile delinquency; it involves our whole social structure, and there is no answer to it as long as you and I do not step totally out of society - society representing ambition, cruelty, the desire to succeed, to become somebody, to be on top.

That whole process is essentially the egocentric pursuit of fulfillment, only it has been made respectable.

It is only when the mind understands this whole social structure that we shall find an entirely different approach to the problem, thereby perhaps establishing real peace, not this spurious peace of coaches, management theorists and politicians.