BEST of PONDER on THIS for Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Anne Wilson Schaef in WHEN SOCIETY BECOMES AN ADDICT

“The best-adjusted person in our society is the person who is not dead and not alive, just numb, a zombie. When you are dead you’re not able to do the work of the society. When you are fully alive, you are constantly saying, “No” to many of the processes of society, the racism, the polluted environment, the nuclear threat, the arms race, drinking unsafe water and eating carcinogenic foods. Thus it is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie-like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.”

Anne Wilson Schaef, in “When Society Becomes an Addict”

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