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The Reith Lectures
Adapting to the Environments of the Future
All animals cope with existence by fitting their experience into categories which they expect. In this respect, our human ability to form verbal concepts and share them with others provides us with enormous flexibility. We must act positively so as to inhibit the tendency for individuals and groups of individuals to separate out a specialized non-communicating systems. And we must stimulate the young to elaborate and enlarge their expectations in imaginative ways. Even the most bizarre new experience can be treated as plausible and therefore subject to control. These are simple phrases but they have very deep implications. They imply that every manifestation of national consciousness is an evil. That respect for tradition is anevil. That every vested interest is at all times open to challenge
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