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The most difficult problem we have today is that we’ve gone from 90 percent illiterate to 90 percent literate.
"Humanity historically has thought of life as just a trial-- a question of how to survive, not how to live today. Go back to the pharaohs, even their lives were so bad that they thought it was a test–so they built pyramids for afterlife.
"Then there was the rich middle class–the Greeks and Romans. They built mausoleums. Suddenly along came Buddha…and 600 years later, Christ… Mohamed followed… and he said we can take care of everyone with our mosques and temples. There was so much technology by this time they thought, ‘we can get everybody through the natural life and we can take care of the kings and nobles too.’
"We push buttons. We turn the wheel of the car to get it around the corner, but we don’t know how it works. The problem is how to get everybody on Spaceship Earth to understand technology. We are still playing the game of the pharaoh…getting through life without stopping to try and understand it. We don’t need a pharaoh to use a lever.
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- RBF to Karen Winner, Copley News Service, 9 Apr’77
