WEBVTT NOTE Getting It All Together 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Getting It All Together 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Many times in discussing ideas, we tend to go off on flights of fancy and we don't get our feet back on the ground. 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:21.000 So today I'd like to do that, get right down to bedrock. Let's be practical. 4 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:36.000 Let's figure out how to put the pieces together so that this world of ours can be organized in such a way that we can work and work successfully toward a better life for humankind. 5 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.280 Now, the first point that we're going to have to understand is this. 6 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:50.320 Man by his nature doesn't have enough time, enough wisdom, or enough energy as an individual 7 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.760 in order to accomplish everything that he would like to see done. 8 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:55.540 It's not possible. 9 00:00:55.540 --> 00:01:01.080 Each one of us has a limited amount of time, a limited amount of energy, a limited amount 10 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:04.040 of ability, and it stops there. 11 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.920 Not a one of us is able to create all the problems that exist in the world, and not 12 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:15.240 a one of us is able to cure all those problems. The best we can do is to be a part of either 13 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:18.860 a problem or a solution. 14 00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:27.780 In order to get things done, men have learned long ago that it is essential that they organize. 15 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:32.300 Human organization is one of the basic tools that we have. 16 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:39.300 Beginning in primitive times, when we learned to organize around a hunting or foraging chieftain 17 00:01:39.300 --> 00:01:44.980 and to follow his suggestions and even his commands in trying to find an adequate food 18 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:53.260 supply right up to the present time, our ability to get things done depends upon our willingness 19 00:01:53.260 --> 00:01:59.500 to provide labor specialization, that is to say, there is a division of labor in which 20 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:06.580 one man will do one thing and concentrate on it until he becomes superbly qualified 21 00:02:06.580 --> 00:02:12.380 to do that one thing, whereas another man will concentrate in another area so that he 22 00:02:12.380 --> 00:02:16.220 becomes superbly qualified to do something else. 23 00:02:16.220 --> 00:02:23.300 By means of doing this, our limited energy, ability, and time is multiplied many times 24 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:29.540 over so that you and I have the benefit, by working together, of the skills and the time 25 00:02:29.540 --> 00:02:32.440 and the energy of other peoples. 26 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:38.520 Human organization is an essential whatever it is you want to do. 27 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:44.200 Now we have to begin with an ultimate given, a self-evident truth. 28 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:52.360 And the self-evident truth that we want to deal with is, man is. And man is what he is 29 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:58.960 by his nature. That is probably not going to change, or if it does change, the change 30 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:06.140 will be made very, very gradually over countless ages of time. 31 00:03:06.140 --> 00:03:13.560 Man as a species is fairly well locked into a particular pattern. According to Rostand, 32 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:24.920 Man, as a physiological specimen, has had no real change in the last 250,000 years. 33 00:03:24.920 --> 00:03:26.440 We are simply what we are. 34 00:03:26.440 --> 00:03:29.400 We are a species. 35 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:36.400 So man is, and one of the characteristics of man is, that as individual units of our 36 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:42.820 species, not a one of us is capable of providing everything that we want, or getting everything 37 00:03:42.820 --> 00:03:54.860 So we have a subordinate given, and that is that the nature of man, as nature has established 38 00:03:54.860 --> 00:03:59.700 it, requires human organization. 39 00:03:59.700 --> 00:04:08.780 Now the characteristic of every human organization, of whatever kind of description, is that human 40 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:12.220 choices are limited. 41 00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:15.700 That's the reason for any kind of organization. 42 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:25.020 Whenever any kind of human activity is coalesced into an organized method of some sort, the 43 00:04:25.020 --> 00:04:31.540 purpose of it is to limit the choices of the members of that particular organization. 44 00:04:31.540 --> 00:04:33.700 That's what it's for. 45 00:04:33.700 --> 00:04:40.500 So there is a feeling among a number of people who are very devoted to the idea of individual 46 00:04:40.500 --> 00:04:48.300 and Social Freedom, that organization per se is anti-human, because the minute any kind 47 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:54.820 of organization occurs, then the individual who is in that organization may not have the 48 00:04:54.820 --> 00:05:01.060 total range of choices that he would have had prior to his getting into that organization, 49 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:05.460 never mind what the organization is, and they would be correct in that. 50 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:12.220 All human organization delimits in advance the number of choices that a member of the 51 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:14.020 organization has. 52 00:05:14.020 --> 00:05:20.580 If you take a job, it means that during certain working hours, you are going to have to limit 53 00:05:20.580 --> 00:05:23.220 your choices to the things that the job demands. 54 00:05:23.220 --> 00:05:28.240 Now, of course, if you don't take the job, well, then you don't have to limit your choices. 55 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:33.700 If you were to enter into a marriage relationship or into any other kind of a contract, then 56 00:05:33.700 --> 00:05:39.660 and your choices are limited according to the terms of the contract or the marriage relationship. 57 00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:47.320 Whatever you do in concert with other men, you begin to divide the labor and consequently 58 00:05:47.320 --> 00:05:51.940 you tend to concentrate in one area and not in another. 59 00:05:51.940 --> 00:05:58.080 And that means that you just automatically stop choosing to do certain things and you 60 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:01.220 do choose to do other things instead. 61 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:04.740 That is the nature of all organization. 62 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:11.980 Now the real problem that we face here is not the problem of organization per se. 63 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:14.940 Organization is necessary because of the nature of man. 64 00:06:14.940 --> 00:06:19.620 However ruggedly individualistic you may believe yourself to be, the fact is that you will 65 00:06:19.620 --> 00:06:25.020 do better when there are others who agree with you and will work with you toward a common 66 00:06:25.020 --> 00:06:26.460 goal. 67 00:06:26.460 --> 00:06:30.980 The real problem here is the method of organization. 68 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:34.260 How do you get organized? 69 00:06:34.260 --> 00:06:41.140 In all human experience, there are two general ways of creating an organization. 70 00:06:41.140 --> 00:06:47.660 You can do it systematically, or you can do it structurally. 71 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:54.620 When we are engaged in creating a systematic organization, we are engaged in creating a 72 00:06:54.620 --> 00:07:01.620 Location and a method wherein human energy can be coalesced toward the accomplishment 73 00:07:01.620 --> 00:07:05.420 of an agreed-upon goal by voluntary means. 74 00:07:05.420 --> 00:07:08.900 Now, what that implies is this. 75 00:07:08.900 --> 00:07:17.420 It implies that every individual in this organization, although his choices are limited by virtue 76 00:07:17.420 --> 00:07:24.420 of Money, Money and State, The Theory of Money and State, The Theory of Money and State, 77 00:07:47.420 --> 00:08:07.420 In order to become a concert violinist, you would have to practice almost endless hours learning how to master that very, very sensitive instrument, the violin. 78 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:24.420 If you make up your mind to do this, and you do it in such a way that it requires you're getting up at four in the morning and you stay up until ten at night just working and working on your violin, this is not oppression. This is self-discipline. 79 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:35.420 True, your choices are limited. While you're engaged in learning mastery of this instrument, you can't go fishing, you can't have dates. There are just a lot of things that you can't do. 80 00:08:35.420 --> 00:08:43.600 So you deprive yourself in certain areas so that you can master yourself in another area, 81 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:47.640 but the significant thing is that you do it. 82 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:55.680 You make up your mind and you exercise your decision-making function, and when this happens, 83 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:59.960 there is nothing of a despotic nature involved. 84 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:06.480 We think of despotism and oppression not where an individual controls himself, but where 85 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:14.920 someone other than himself controls him. And so you can organize systematically, which 86 00:09:14.920 --> 00:09:21.820 means that you can create organizations that depend on their support entirely for the voluntary 87 00:09:21.820 --> 00:09:27.380 choices of the members and those who have any relationship, whatever, with that type 88 00:09:57.380 --> 00:10:06.560 There is a quid pro quo relationship. We call it ecology. In actual fact, it would be properly 89 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:15.420 known as bio-nomics. That is, it is the science of biological economics. That's the way we 90 00:10:15.420 --> 00:10:23.260 live in this world. One species exists because there is another species upon which it depends. 91 00:10:23.260 --> 00:10:30.180 But the second species exists because there is a third species, upon which it depends. 92 00:10:30.180 --> 00:10:34.540 This species exists because there is a fourth species, upon which it depends. 93 00:10:34.540 --> 00:10:39.260 And lo and behold, the fourth species depends upon the first species. 94 00:10:39.260 --> 00:10:47.460 And you have a complete link-up in which there is a quid pro quo relationship, that is, exchange 95 00:10:47.460 --> 00:10:49.600 occurs in nature. 96 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.220 Let me give you an example of what I mean. 97 00:10:52.220 --> 00:10:56.740 In the early days of the settling of this country, as the pioneers moved west, they 98 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:03.380 came into the prairie states and ultimately began to put in farms and to settle them and 99 00:11:03.380 --> 00:11:04.920 raise crops. 100 00:11:04.920 --> 00:11:09.220 When they did, they found that they had an enormous problem. 101 00:11:09.220 --> 00:11:14.320 There was a coyote that they were not familiar with, and it was a noisy brute. 102 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:15.760 It made a lot of noise at night. 103 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:20.380 In fact, two or three of them sound as though there's a pack of 50, because they're very 104 00:11:20.380 --> 00:11:21.460 vocal. 105 00:11:21.460 --> 00:11:28.280 And also, they will kill small farm animals such as calves or colts, and of course chickens, 106 00:11:28.280 --> 00:11:33.200 and they sometimes run in packs and conceivably they could bring down larger animals or even 107 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:39.260 pose a threat to man. In a sense, they're like a small wolf. The farmers didn't like 108 00:11:39.260 --> 00:11:46.060 the coyotes. They saw them as bringing an ecological imbalance to their ideas of how 109 00:11:46.060 --> 00:11:48.060 The Theory of Money and Credit 110 00:12:16.060 --> 00:12:22.060 In order to get the money, the government taxed the farmers, who were to receive the money if they caught a coyote. 111 00:12:22.060 --> 00:12:31.060 Naturally, the government kept a major part of the money to administer the program, so the farmers were actually worse off financially than they'd been before, but they didn't quite see that at the time. 112 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:38.060 Instead, they took their guns and went out and started shooting coyotes, and they brought in the coyote scalps and they got paid for it. 113 00:12:38.060 --> 00:12:44.060 And now they got a real problem. They suddenly found themselves overrun with an infestation of jackrabbits. 114 00:12:44.060 --> 00:12:52.560 The coyotes, it turned out, were the natural prey of the jackrabbit, and kept the jackrabbit from multiplying excessively. 115 00:12:52.560 --> 00:13:00.560 Now with his natural enemy gone, the jackrabbits multiplied to such a degree that the farmers had a real problem, 116 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:03.560 because the jackrabbits just don't kill an occasional chicken. 117 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:08.560 They start at one end of the field and they can eat everything you've got planted, and that's a disaster. 118 00:13:08.560 --> 00:13:15.560 Did the farmers learn their lesson and go to the government and say, take the law off, we've made a mistake? No. 119 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:23.560 They went back to the government and said, we've created a problem here, you've got to put a bounty on jackrabbit scalps, too. 120 00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:31.560 And so the whole process of dislocating the bio-nomic relation continued. 121 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:36.560 We have one thing after another of this sort that human beings have done. 122 00:13:36.560 --> 00:13:50.560 Now, make up your mind to this. It is not possible for any species to survive in this world without creating a burden on some other species. That's not possible. 123 00:13:50.560 --> 00:14:04.560 I hear many people today who think of themselves as naturalists, who are thinking that it would be possible for us to live without imposing at all on any other living thing. And this, of course, is an absurdity. 124 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:13.320 Life lives on life. Whether you are surviving because you are eating food animals, or whether 125 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.760 you are eating food plants, the plants and the animals both have life. There is this 126 00:14:18.760 --> 00:14:26.160 ecological hookup that is the only thing that makes life possible, and some dislocation 127 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:34.240 of a given species occurs every time a species survives. There is no other way out. 128 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:41.200 The problem is to understand it, and to understand that there exists in nature a 129 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:48.560 bionomic, that is to say, a quid pro quo, a something-for-something relationship through 130 00:14:48.560 --> 00:14:54.960 all of nature. Now, that's what we learn from nature, and from it we derive the science of 131 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:06.160 Economics is simply a man-made market where exchanges occur, wherein one group of people 132 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:11.600 are completely dependent upon another group of people, because there is a third group of people 133 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:18.080 upon whom who in themselves can be dependent upon by the second group, and so on around the loop. 134 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:24.880 Just as in nature herself, one species depends on another, so in the marketplace, 135 00:15:25.680 --> 00:15:31.680 businessmen depend on workers, workers depend on customers, customers depend on businessmen, 136 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:39.520 businessmen depend on financiers, financiers depend on businessmen, and so on. We are all linked up 137 00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:47.760 in an economic relationship, and in addition, we are all linked up in a biological economic 138 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:54.560 Relationship, which Nature has provided. This is why we organize, and why when we organize 139 00:15:55.120 --> 00:16:04.000 voluntarily, without seeking to impose violence on anyone, we get into a systematic way of operating. 140 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:10.960 We exchange what we have voluntarily with someone else who has something that we don't have. 141 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:18.320 and the exchange occurs, whether it occurs in nature or in the man-made market doesn't matter. 142 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:27.880 What is significant is that if it happens in nature, the exchange occurs because of the nature of the 143 00:16:27.880 --> 00:16:35.360 creatures involved. And when exchanges occur in a man-made market, the exchanges occur because 144 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:41.160 Because it is beneficial to both parties to the exchange that the exchange occurs. 145 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:47.800 The characteristic being in a man-made situation that all exchanges be voluntary and that no 146 00:16:47.800 --> 00:16:54.720 one be coerced, and the characteristic in natural exchanges be that the exchanges occur 147 00:16:54.720 --> 00:17:00.440 according to the nature of the creatures involved in the exchange. 148 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:07.000 Now we discovered this. Probably we were not able to theorize on it. We simply began the 149 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:14.080 process of copying what we saw in nature. We copied it in our art forms. We copied it 150 00:17:14.080 --> 00:17:20.680 in human living. We always went to nature for our model. And then we began acting that 151 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:28.720 way. And whenever we did, it worked out. But man is gifted with an enormous amount of impatience 152 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:37.560 and an enormous amount of desire, and this is a very strange thing, to live forever. 153 00:17:37.560 --> 00:17:44.160 And here is the place where we began not to rely on systems, but to rely instead upon 154 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.160 structuring. 155 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:51.920 And when I use the term structure, I want to convey the idea that here we have a type 156 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:58.540 The type of organization that people can put together that relies not on a voluntary exchange 157 00:17:58.540 --> 00:18:05.100 process but on the use of force to some degree. 158 00:18:05.100 --> 00:18:08.620 This would be the characteristic of a structure. 159 00:18:08.620 --> 00:18:14.820 When human beings decide to create structures rather than to rely on systems and the voluntary 160 00:18:14.820 --> 00:18:21.820 Method, it is because either, one, they are impatient of results, and they want their 161 00:18:21.820 --> 00:18:28.900 results right now, and they are not willing to take the longer route of persuading others 162 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:32.460 as to the merits involved in an exchange. 163 00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:38.940 They simply use the direct method of producing force and compelling an exchange. 164 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:45.380 The difference between a structure and a system is the difference between a man who enters 165 00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:51.580 the bank with a gun and gets the money, and that is the quickest way to get it, and the 166 00:18:51.580 --> 00:18:58.700 man who enters the bank having built up a reputation of reliability and asks for a loan 167 00:18:58.700 --> 00:19:00.040 and obtains it that way. 168 00:19:00.040 --> 00:19:05.800 Now it's going to take him longer to build up the reputation and to borrow the money. 169 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:12.160 It also creates the necessity of his paying it back. But you can obtain money either way. 170 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:20.340 You can obtain money by the longer, honest process of obtaining it by voluntary exchange, 171 00:19:20.340 --> 00:19:27.180 or you can use the direct method that impatient people use of taking it by force. That's the 172 00:19:27.180 --> 00:19:34.700 fundamental difference. And so when people become too impatient of the result they want, 173 00:19:34.700 --> 00:19:40.860 And they are not willing to work long enough. It seems like just a waste of time to put 174 00:19:40.860 --> 00:19:47.520 that much effort into it, and so they cut across lots and impose force and violence 175 00:19:47.520 --> 00:19:53.420 to get what they want rather than taking the longer way around. That's the difference. 176 00:19:53.420 --> 00:20:01.300 And of course, either way will work. The system produces results, and the structure produces 177 00:20:01.300 --> 00:20:16.540 One of the reasons, in addition to impatience, that causes men to try to structure a system, 178 00:20:16.540 --> 00:20:24.420 or in essence to corrupt it by the use of force, is their desire for immortality. 179 00:20:24.420 --> 00:20:31.720 The desire for immortality is something that has more or less plagued our species ever 180 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:37.860 since we discovered that we had minds and could visualize and imagine things that we 181 00:20:37.860 --> 00:20:40.220 really know nothing about. 182 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:46.720 From the very beginning, when men began to realize that life was a temporary condition 183 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:54.720 On this earth, they began to imagine perpetual life, and then they longed for some magic 184 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:02.640 elixir or some touchstone, some way of making life perpetual. And men are still struggling 185 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:09.400 with this. Now, the important reason here is that people have been led to believe by 186 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:16.680 by their theologies, by their fear, and even by government itself, that life is always 187 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:24.720 good and death is always evil, and therefore death must always be opposed and we must retain 188 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:33.520 life no matter what the cost. And the sad fact is that that is not true. 189 00:21:33.520 --> 00:21:42.920 What is true is that functional life is good, but a part of the function of life is death. 190 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:47.620 Death is as much a part of life as new birth. 191 00:21:47.620 --> 00:21:55.100 And when we become disenchanted with life to the place where we intend to support life 192 00:21:55.100 --> 00:22:00.680 at whatever cost in order to avoid that part of life that we call death, then we begin 193 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:09.940 to create dysfunction not only out of impatience, but out of fear of that ultimate point when 194 00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:13.640 we might cease to live. 195 00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:18.440 That is also a reason why we create structures. 196 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:25.120 Because if we could create a structure and arm it with enough force, it would be able 197 00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:42.840 Government is an agency that is created by men with the idea of creating an agency that 198 00:22:42.840 --> 00:22:49.560 will have perpetual existence. No matter what happens to human beings, government is supposed 199 00:22:49.560 --> 00:23:12.560 It is to go on forever. Agencies that governments sanction, often in the legal wording, it will say, this particular agency is organized and is to have perpetual existence. The idea being that no matter what, it's going to live. 200 00:23:12.560 --> 00:23:27.560 This is the thing that causes us to corrupt our environment in order to make it possible for that particular organization to survive even when there is no real justification for it to survive. 201 00:23:27.560 --> 00:23:34.560 You may have noticed that this is exactly the kind of thing that happens in our modern society constantly. 202 00:23:34.560 --> 00:23:39.560 An organization will be created, for example, to deal with a particular problem. 203 00:23:39.560 --> 00:23:58.560 I'm thinking, for instance, of the great idea that was named after President Roosevelt that created the March of Dimes and the idea of dealing with paralysis and muscular dystrophy and so on. 204 00:23:58.560 --> 00:24:08.560 A very splendid idea. In fact, the work done by this organization was so outstanding that they virtually rolled back scientific knowledge in this area 205 00:24:08.560 --> 00:24:13.760 in this area and brought cures where we didn't think it was possible for cures to occur. 206 00:24:13.760 --> 00:24:20.200 And now what happened? The organization fulfilled its function. It should have died. But it 207 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:26.240 didn't. Because it was created for perpetual existence. And so they had to cast around 208 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:32.600 for some other chore to take on because you have to maintain the organization no matter 209 00:24:32.600 --> 00:25:02.600 I see businessmen doing this all the time. A business that has no more justification for existence than anything in the world will run off to Washington to get a subsidy, to keep it running no matter what, even if people don't want the product, even if there is good reason to suppose that the product is deleterious and we ought not to have it, nonetheless you've got to keep it going because it was created for perpetual existence. And we do the same thing in our 210 00:25:02.600 --> 00:25:11.160 are relationships to each other. We don't leave room for vibrant, living, changing life. 211 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:18.320 We try to nail everything down and structure it because we feel safer that way if we could 212 00:25:18.320 --> 00:25:26.240 only predict the future unerringly. And that's, of course, what we try to do. This is a problem. 213 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:33.000 It is a very real problem. And if we are going to maximize human well-being, we are going 214 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:41.120 to have to learn how to live at peace with life and death. Please don't misunderstand 215 00:25:41.120 --> 00:25:47.680 me. I am not suggesting that death is a good. I am suggesting that death at the right time 216 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:55.440 is a good. And I am not suggesting that life is evil. I am suggesting that life that is 217 00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:02.480 is dysfunctional, is evil. And this is what we have tended to do. Because we believe that 218 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:11.600 life, no matter how it is, how it is lived, is always good, then we will corrupt our social 219 00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:18.640 order, corrupt our environment, corrupt our marketplace to keep life going even when the 220 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:27.520 Life is dysfunctional. Now, when life becomes dysfunctional, many times it can become dysfunctional 221 00:26:27.520 --> 00:26:33.280 temporarily. Something can be done. Any one of us could become ill. Any one of us could 222 00:26:33.280 --> 00:26:39.480 have some kind of damage occur. I'm not suggesting euthanasia. I'm suggesting that you do everything 223 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:46.380 you can to make the life functional. But when you finally know that the life cannot be made 224 00:26:46.380 --> 00:26:54.060 Functional. Then the proper thing to do is to accept death as the next step in life, 225 00:26:54.060 --> 00:27:04.140 as a logical good, not a logical evil. And if we can ever learn that lesson, then we may discover 226 00:27:04.140 --> 00:27:10.540 that we do not need to structure anything, that we can rely upon voluntary exchanges, 227 00:27:10.540 --> 00:27:17.980 If we learn patience and learn that life and death are together a part of life, then we 228 00:27:17.980 --> 00:27:25.460 can go on into a new way of dealing with each other that is a way based upon nature on the 229 00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:35.020 quid pro quo of ecology and bionomics and free market laissez-faire economics.