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"them into trouble. They had this wonderful capability and capacity a little child uses until the grownups say 'Darling, it just doesn’t pay to use that little brain of yours; you catch on to this is the way the rules are because I’d like you to survive. I don’t want you to get in a lot of trouble. Every one of my friends when I was young that carried on the way you are got into trouble, so you stop that. At any rate, the young world is getting out from under, and it is looking for its own meanings. It is really a child that has not been discouraged too much and is out seeking very very vigorously.
“The fact is you don’t have to teach being truthful. The child by itself says, ‘That’s what I see. That’s what I smell,’ because that’s the equipment he has and that’s the reaction he’s getting. And that is the truth. I find that lying and prevarication to get on with the system proliferates very very rapidly but has to be taught. It’s taught when the children are quite young, and then once when people begin to get on, everyone’s playing poker and playing politics, in corporations and governments, how to get on, look after your family. The game from then on is not the truth. We get so involved with prevarication that it seems as though truth would be a very”
