The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
在这个世界上生存的唯一方法是对它的恐怖麻木不仁。