The Challenge to Join the Minority

My interest does not lie in raising parrots that just rehash their master's voice, but rather in passing the torch to independent and inventive, innovative and creative spirits. Sigma and Freud once asserted, let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. And today you need no longer hesitate to use the word saints - think of Father Maximilian Colby who was starved and finally murdered by an injection of carbolic acid at Auschwitz. You may be prone to blame me for invoking examples that are the exceptions to the rule. But I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless