My idea was that if they wanted to fight (human nature and all that), they should do it in the Antarctic, rest of us gambling on daily outcome: proceeds for world welfare.
Society's changing. Relevant information's hard to come by. Soon it'll be everywhere, unnoticed.
War will not be group conflict: it'll be murder, pure and simple, individually conceived.
Treat redwoods, for instance, as entitles that have at least a chance to win.
Fusion of credit card with passport.
Effect of videophone on travel? That we'll stay home, settling like gods for impressions we'll give of being everywhere at once.
Everywhere where economics and politics obtain (everywhere?), policy is dog eat dog.
The truth is that everything causes everything else.
Heaven's no longer paved with gold (changes in church architecture). Heaven's a motel.
Utopia? Self-knowledge. Some will make it, with or without LSD. The others? Pray for acts of God, crises, power failures, no water to drink.
--from Diary: How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965
The question is not: How much are you going to get out of it? Nor is it: How much are you going to put into it? But rather: How immediately are you going to say Yes to no matter what unpredictability, even when what happens seems to have no relation to what one thought was one's commitment?
--from Lecture on Commitment, 1961
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