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has lived in that dream, but nothing has happened and everything has been done...
You will be surprised. We have sacrificed human beings to an empty concept of God! We have sacrificed the most beautiful women -- because God would be very happy to have a beautiful woman. We have made every effort, but the sky remains silent, no answer ever comes, no response. Slowly, slowly the intelligentsia started looking somewhere else -- "Perhaps that is not the right direction..." That's where people like Thomas Moore come in.
It is a sheer waste of time to look towards an abstract God no one has seen. It is better to improve the society, make the society perfect so that the people who are members of the society have the chance to flower to their perfection. That is another illusion, far closer to reality, but it doesn't matter whether the illusion is farther away or closer, an illusion is an illusion.
You cannot create a perfect society for the simple reason... just take a few examples: there are poor people, there are rich people. Naturally, in a perfect society nobody should be poor, nobody should be rich, there should not be any division of classes. It will be a classless society. But it is impossible because it is against the very psychology of man. No two men are equal, and you are thinking of making the whole human society equal; it cannot happen. And it is not only a question of being rich and poor, the question is multidimensional.
One of the characters in an existentialist novel says, "I cannot be satisfied with one woman. I want all the women of the earth."
Now how are you going to satisfy these people? And he is saying something which is hidden in every man and in every woman. How can you manage?
There are people who will not be satisfied unless they have great power over millions of people in their hands. These politicians cannot be satisfied without power. They are addicted to power, but if they have power then millions are reduced to slavery.
One Adolf Hitler -- and millions of people are in danger. But you cannot prevent Adolf Hitlers from being born, and as long as they exist, wars will continue. As long as they
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