Some quotes

some quotes from "Zen and the art motorcycle maintenance"

"but to tear down a factory or revolt against a government [because it is a system] is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only no change is possible

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if the factory is torn down, but the rationality that produced it is left standing then that rationality will simply produce another factory."

"The cause for our current social crisis ... is a genetic defect in the nature of [our] reason itself. and unless this genetic defect is cured, the crisis will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is—emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless, and spiritually empty. That today is, where its at"