ABSTRACT
People are often prophets of doom and destruction, believing that they live in a critical period of the history of their own nation or even of mankind itself. The future will tell if they are correct, but it usually happens that the predicted death of a people does not materialize. Man's intelligence, driven by science, is the real obstruction to change. Due to his control of science and technical skills, man judges himself master of nature and the earth. Man's very nature as homo faber, inventor, is self-destructive. By destroying the environment with so-called progress and by threatening atomic or chemical war, man does not only obfuscate the future, but dooms also inner life and personality. Man has to learn to differentiate between true and false consciousness and direct needs from real interests. He can do that when he changes his life-style and refuses to accept the positive things.
