Paul on Nostr: Man creates institutions to satisfy his social needs in accordance with his philoso- ...

Man creates institutions
to satisfy his social needs in accordance with his philoso-
phy. Individuals join these institutions and make their
personal interests fuse with those of the institutions, on
whose wealth and power their own prospects depend.
What follows is that very soon these institutions begin to
serve their own interests rather than social needs. As time
goes by the social needs and philosophy change, but the
institutions don't; they remain fighting for their own inter-
ests until they are swept away by revolution, often at the
price of much suffering, bloodshed and devastation. Man
grows by virtue of these upheavals; he becomes, then,
like a snake, bursting his skin periodically.
The emergence of modern science has greatly speeded
up these changes. Most of our social institutions now serve
mainly their own interests while pretending to serve the
purpose for which they were created. This holds equally
for armies, churches or governments and means that we
are living in a hypocritical world, one of false pretenses,
one which is now being rejected wholesale by our youth.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi