Imagine a world of drug induced bliss

A drug induced bliss would be empty. We don’t want to be placid, tender, compassionate idiots. If given the option few would choose and those who did; if they still had the possibility of choice in their chosen utopia would want to escape.

We want to experience life but a life that is both fuller and happier.

If we are to be in the universe we must have the possibility of misery. That is the way it is. There is no victory, no sense of achievement without the possibility of defeat – and there can be no happiness without its opposite. And, perhaps unjustly, some will be happier and more successful in finding true happiness and living the good life than others

Remember Nature’s power

Our civilisation is not for ever. The black earth will creep in over the streets. Brambles and nettles will hide the rusting wrecks and rivers will flood our fine streets and at last the last star goes dark.