The people of your culture are captives of a story….All of you know it by heart
by the time you’re six or seven. You hear it incessantly. Every medium of
propaganda, every medium of education pours it out incessantly….Once you know
this story, you’ll hear it everywhere, and you’ll be astonished that the people
around you don’t hear it as well but merely take it in….Mother Culture, whose
voice has been in your ear since the day of your birth, has given you an
explanation of how things came to be this way….Two different stories have been
enacted here during the lifetime of man. One has been enacted from the very
beginning of human life millions of years ago and is still being enacted here
today, as successfully as ever by peoples that you (in your superior wisdom)
deem to be primitive. The other story began to be enacted here some ten thousand
years ago by the founders of your culture and is apparently about to end in
catastrophe.
