Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it
should be.
They are not concerned that you should become a
self-knower. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the
mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. So they want you to
have an ego that fits with society. They teach you morality. Morality means
giving you an ego which will fit with the society. If you are immoral, you will
always be a misfit somewhere or other. That's why we put criminals in the
prisons - not that they have done something wrong, not that by putting them in
the prisons we are going to improve them, no. They simply don't fit. They are
troublemakers. They have certain types of egos of which the society doesn't
approve. If the society approves, everything is good. One man kills somebody - he is a murderer and the same man in wartime kills thousands - he
becomes a great hero. The society is not bothered by a murder, but the murder
should be commited for the society - then it is okay. The society doesn't
bother about morality. Morality means only that you should fit with the
society. If the society is at war, then the morality changes.
If the society is at peace, then there is a different
morality. Morality is a social politics. It is diplomacy. And
each child has to be brought up in such a way that he fits into the society,
that's all. Because society is interested in efficient members. Society is not
interested that you should attain to self-knowledge.
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