¶ Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man
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Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man:
“I developed a fundamental philosophic concept in 1927 which was that it is possible, instead of trying to reform man, to reform the physical patterns–to reform the environment in such a way as to make the physical environment patterning more favorable to the new life being born into it. It seemed possible that the new human generation, born into the streamlined environment, might quickly react by re-employing the newly designed advantages, and in so doing might establish a new level of integrity of human response to environmental stimuli whereby society might come to act in creative spontaneity to continually convert the highest knowledge born of the cumulative experience of man toward the direct enhancement of the life processes, instead of, as at present, leaving the prime social initiative for the weaponry exploiters who derive their mandate only from the negative fears born of ignorance, and the congealing inertia of that ignorant fear.”
¶ Citations
- MEXICO '63, p.18, 10 Oct '63
