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If the individual can be helped, if the individual can be
enlightened, if the individual can be persuaded to celebrate
life, to enjoy life, only then will we be able to change the
climate around the earth. But that is not our purpose, that is
not our goal - that is going to be just a consequence.  You ask
me: “What does your movement signify about the condition of
society?”  It simply signifies that the society is rotten, that
the society is ill, that there is no possibility of reforming
the society. Because if this society is reformed it will be
simply a modified form of the same rottenness - maybe a little
bit better decorated, better painted, but it will be the same
disease. In five thousand years’ history, many times society has
been reformed. And nothing basically ever changes; it remains
the same in every form. It is the same illness, the same
ugliness, the same sickness tha