Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
Copy QuoteA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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