We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

132. Amen. Human beings are not worker ants.

In a healthy culture (i.e. not including mainstream American culture) people are able to pursue happiness without a value judgement or economic necessity to work for money.

The Puritan Work Ethic is as perverted as Puritan sexual ethics. It starts with the premise that human beings are evil creatures. I believe that human beings are just smart animals who have many of the same good and bad impulses as other animals. Of course we are highly susceptible to parental and cultural nurturing in more sophisticated ways than other animals, but I tend to agree with Chomsky that we have innate tendencies toward creativity and altruism.

Capitalism is a major problem because it requires worker ants and provides lots of goods and services destructive to the planet and the human spirit.

What we desperately need is an infusion of neolithic values that foster more cultural interconnectedness and respect for nature.