¶ Doing what Needs to be Done
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Doing what Needs to be Done:
"I felt then… that it could be that instead of trying to think about: How do I earn a living?.. how do I survive? …that we ought to be looking around saying, ‘what is it that my experience teaches me that needs to be attended to, which, if properly attended to, could bring advantage to all humanity, and which, if not attended to properly, could find humanity at a great disadvantage?’
“If you have had anything in your experience say that to you insistently, you ought to do something about it… and pay no attention to the earning of a living. But people would say: How are you possibly going to earn a living? And I would say that it seems to me also then that the little individual, using his own mind and doing his own thinking can observe that the honey bee cross-pollenizes the flowers and other vegetation inadvertently bumbling with his tail knocking off the pollen… that the flowers don’t pay the bumble bee and the bumble bee doesn’t refuse to pollinize for not being paid! In fact, I couldn’t see any money being exchanged by all the great ecological interactions.”
