Society is sick; and the politicians as usual have the cure. Only we don't
want it. The cure is worse than the disease. In fact, the cure is the
disease . . . We are sick to death of the attempts of the political
medicine men to make us better. Human beings are quite all right as they
are; the only thing wrong with society is - politics, the insane itch to do
something about it.
The politicians are forever telling us we must get things done. Well,
judging by the mess we are in, it's time we started getting things undone.
It's time we started to unravel some of this vile knitting, these policies
which keep men at useless work and senseless war. At the least, while there
yet remains one corner of the world free enough from this dreary fanaticism
to allow us to think, and before we commit ourselves to any course of
action, let us have some cool, clear thought - about these "things" we are
to get done or undone.
Before we act we must think. In fact, instead of acting we must think. For
that is at least one certain value in thought - that in itself it "does
nothing." Because it does nothing it cannot possibly do anything wrong. And
this, when you consider the history of human society as it really is, the
long record of mistakes made by its mentors, by its reformers, do-gooders,
uplifters, its militarists and men of action, is a definite advance. The
only advance. . . If we don't do anything to society we can't do it any
harm. Of course, we can't do it any good either. But this is as it should
be. If we stopped doing good for people they might get in and do some good
for themselves.
What this world needs is more armchair revolutionaries.
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