The thoughts advanced in these pages are put forth as straws on the wind, hoping others may see in them the direction in which it is blowing. They make no claim to be exhaustive, to even begin to cover the tremendous questions touched upon. They are offered by the writer because of a keen conviction that in spite of the apparent hopelessness of our present situation on this planet involved as we are in political, economic and social problems on a scale more grave and more vast than any which have hitherto menaced men in the course of written history in spite of the black horizons surrounding us, we can and we should exert individually our utmost effort to divert, or at least limit, whatever catastrophes threaten to engulf us.
It is not conceivable that there should be a means of doing all the things we do, of overcoming distance as we have through our aeroplanes, satellites and rockets, of eliminating time as we have through radio, radar, television, computers, laser beams and other discoveries of modern science, of making leisure at least theoretically possible for every man to enjoy through the efficiency of machine mass production, of even prying open the atom's nucleus to release its dazzling powers for construction or destruction, and yet be no means of making men enlightened, good and happy beings.
Was there ever a more tragic world than ours today? Where do we see peace, or justice, or those most longed- for and sought-after of all boons, peace of mind and a joyous heart? Pleasure we have, a mad whirl of diversion and amusement, anything, anything to keep us busy and prevent us from thinking those thoughts that are really constantly standing at the threshold of every man's consciousness: that we are really bitterly unhappy, that we are hovering on the brink of doom and can find no promise for the future.
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