ABSTRACT
Man, who has only been in power for a few thousand years, will never learn to make use of his power."(24) The real need, as he sees it in this essay as well as 'The Menace to Freedom', is a moral realignment. Seeing that fear gives rise to tyranny, he defines the inner power necessary to combat the menace to freedom -
If the two desires (love and freedom) could combine, the menace to freedom from within, the fundamental menace (of fear) might disappear, and the political evils now filling all the foreground of our lives would be deprived of the poison which nourishes them. (28)
This savage pastime admits the element of Free Will. It is possible to retard or accelerate Fate. Play, subtle and vigorous play, goes on all the time, though the player is being swept
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than ~t the things that it buys. They are dimmed because of the metal and the paper through which we receive them. That is the fundamental deceitfulness of riches which kept worrying Christ. That is the treachery of the purse, the wallet and the bankbalance, even fram the capitalist point of view. They were invented as a convenience to the flesh, they have become a chain for the spirit. Surely they can be cut out, like some sorts of pain. Though deprived of them, the human mind might surely still keep its delicacy unimpaire~ and the human body eat, drink and make love. And that is why every bourgeois ought to reverence the Soviet Pavilion. (73)
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