Nicolas Ilari Aguirre

"Formal schooling has no intrinsic value, but becomes necessary when humanity creates a condition in which one must become "educated" to get along. 

     MASANOBU FUKOKA

Warped Economies IV

He who binds to himself a joy

Doth the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternitie's sunrise.

     WILLIAM BLAKE

Our meddling intellect

Misshapes the beauteous forms of things--

We murder to dissect.

     WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Warped Economies III

Warped Economies II

Warped Economies

"In politics we have so firm a faith in the manifestly unknowable future that we are prepared to sacrifice millions of lives to an opium smoker's dream of Utopia or world dominion or perpetual security. But where natural resources are concerned, we sacrifice a pretty accurately predictable future to present greed. We know, for example, that if we abuse soil, it will lose its fertility, that if we massacre the forests, our children will lack timber and see their uplands eroded, their valleys swept by floods. Nevertheless we continue to abuse the soil and massacre the forests. In a word, we immolate the present to the future in those complex human affairs, where foresight is impossible; but in the relatively simple affairs of nature, where we know quite well what is likely to happen, we immolate the future to the present."

     ALDOUS HUXLEY

(Fragment taken from the epilogue to his novel: "Time Must Have a Stop")

"We understand the devilishness of the political manifestations of the lust for power; but have so completely ignored the evils and dangers inherent in the technological manifestations that, in the teeth of the most obvious facts, we continue to teach our children that there is no debit side to applied science, only a continuing and ever expanding credit. The idea of progress is based on the belief that one can be overweening with impunity."

     ALDOUS HUXLEY

(Fragment taken from the epilogue to his novel: "Time Must Have a Stop")