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“One of the things I never ask myself is how are people going to like it. I would say: What is the Universe trying to do? How and why are we here? I am assuming that we do not know. I am not assuming that we have the competence to judge. I do not look at things in terms of being an elite with Universe disclosing to us some of her recirculatory capabilities, particularly in eternally regenerative Universe. When I ask what are we here for I get into the function of man as the local monitor of problem-solving with reference to capabilities of a generalized sort that no other phenomenon has. We are here then for that function and not for our personal satisfaction-- or the satisfaction of local political bodies-- or proving any ideological system to be great. Those are transitory and unnecessary to the development of man. But we are coming out of this shell-- and this is all in the metabolic cord. The trick is not knowing that it is going to break our legs. You never know who is going to be using those legs. I think that all of humanity is in exactly that position today. We are going to have a very different orientation of humanity to Universe. The younger they are the more they feel it.”
- Rbf tape transcript #4 to W. Wolf, Phila., PA., pp.2-3, 15 Jun’74
