when man is gone, who will save the gorilla?

"Captivity.



Among the people of your culture, which want to destroy the world?"



"Which want to destroy it? As far as I know, no one specifically wants to destroy the world."

"And yet you do destroy it, each of you. Each of you contributes daily to the destruction of the world."

"Yes, that's so."

"Why don't you stop?"

"Frankly, we don't know how."

"You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live."

"Yes, that's the way it seems."

"So you are captives - and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it? - your captivity and the captivity of the world.

A few years ago - you must have been a child at the time, so you may not remember - many young people of this country had the same impression. They made an ingenuous and disorganized attempt to free the world from captivity but ultimately failed, because they were unable to find the bars of the cage. If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to escape soon becomes confused and ineffectual. The world is not going to survive much longer as humanity's captive... I think there are many among you who would like to free the world from captivity. This is what prevents them: They are unable find the bars of the cage."