But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world — wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools. We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.Anonymous
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As a society of individuals we have become incredibly wealthy and technologically advanced. However, instead of using that wealth to improve ourselves, we have fallen into a state of moral poverty. We have become so caught up in our own individualism that we have forgotten about the larger communal good. In an age of increasing globalization, we have been unwilling to compromise our cultural values or work on developing new ways to get along with one another.
Instead, we have been driven more and more to build walls and defend ourselves from others. If we continue on this path, our inevitable conclusion will be a world war which will prove no better than the wars that have plagued us in the past.
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