I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival…

I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

Sourced, Grunch of Giants (1983)

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When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do. - View Quote Details on When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate…
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