Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one as possible.You pays your money and you takes your choice. Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national, militarized totalitarianisms, having as their root the terror of the atomic bomb and as their consequence the destruction of civilization (or, if the warfare is limited, the perpetuation of militarism) or else one supra-national totalitarianism, called into existence by the social chaos resulting from rapid technological progress in general and the atomic revolution in particular, and developing, under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia.Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. On no account brood over your wrong-doing.
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment.
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