... increasing remoteness of desires from needs.... increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs... Instead they want the means they have been brainwashed to accept... Never was any society in human history as rich and as powerful as Western Civilization and the United States, and it is not a happy society.


Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)


Increasing remoteness of desires from needs.... increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs... Instead they want the means...

Increasing remoteness of desires from needs.... increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs... Instead they want the means...

Increasing remoteness of desires from needs.... increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs... Instead they want the means...

Increasing remoteness of desires from needs.... increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs... Instead they want the means...