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care of all the work, enabling people to dedicate themselves to the one thing for which they were created - to think, create and blossom. That is what happens on our planet. Your children must no longer be raised according to the three primitive precepts of work, family, and country. On the contrary, they should be brought up following the principles of fulfillment, freedom, and universal fraternity. “Work” is not sacred when it is motivated only by the need to earn just enough to live a laborious life of hardship. It is even terribly degrading to sell oneself, and one’s life, in order to eat, by doing jobs that simple machines could do. The “family” has never been anything but a way for ancient as well as modern supporters of slavery to force people to work harder for an illusory family ideal. Finally, “patriotism” is still only a supplementary means of creating competition between people and urging them to perform their sacrosanct work with greater ardor each day. What is more, those three concepts - work, family, and country - have always been supported by primitive religions. But now, you are no longer primitive people. Shake off all those dusty old principles and make the most of your life on Earth, which science can transform : . into paradise. Do not be taken in by those who speak to you of potential enemies and allow armament factories to compel underpaid workers to produce destructive weapons that bring profits to big industrialists. Do not be taken in by those who speak to you in horror of the falling birthrate, because young people understand that they need not have so many children, and that it is better to have fewer so they can be happier, as they won't be too numerous on Earth. Do not be taken in by those who constantly brandish remarks under your nose, saying things like “neighboring peoples are multiplying and could become a threat.” They are the same people who support the stockpiling of nuclear weapons under the pretext of “deterrence”. 157 THE SECOND ENCOUNTER - PARADISE ON EARTH