Where people really so silly? Mary Sarojini asked, as the audience laughed.
Really and truly, Will assured her.

- Island, Aldous Huxley.

What makes it impossible for us to access Pala?

We are in numbers well beyond the necessary to produce the resources we need to live. This forces the new generations to invent necessities, laws and institutions, generally anything that might get them a job or a social meaning (as a means to acquire the resources rather than produce them). This makes it increasingly difficult for the rest to live as nature suggests them to.

We still don’t have a maximum limit for everyone’s personal wealth. Naturally, only a few cash in while the rest is kept continuously in competition for survival: competition is possible only if there are more people than natural resources available to let them live relaxed, that pushes their life’s worth low enough to be bought by those who decided earlier to grab more.

Education can help one out of this slavery, but it can be decisive only if combined with attention.

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