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OUR CIVILIZATION: The crisis which faces us today is not an intellectual crisis but a spiritual one. Unless egoism in all its forms, tribal, racial, national, bends to the dominion of love and goodness, our future is not safe. Unfortunately in our educational institutions we feed the animal, train the mind but do not attend to the spirit in man. We listen to the radio, see the cinema or television, read the newspaper, repeat slogans, absorb the impressions we are given. We become a set of mirrors reflecting whatever is presented to us. We are empty within and drift on a tide of trivialities, automatic actions, conditioned responses that do not reach any significant level of intensity. We do not find any purpose or meaning in life. We become like one of these machines we handle, and are satisfied with sex, drink or the national flag. As our inward resources are depleted, we depend on external diversions. We are fragmented beings, afraid of ourselves. -Radhakrishnan 12 July 1956
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