“Here is the problem with the consumption of energy. Once they start depending upon exterior energy and depending upon that energy in order to have energy, this puts them into the economic structure but solidly—since a man will starve to death ordinarily in a few days, puts him into the economic structure so solidly that he must then continue to agree in order to continue to eat. …
“You are looking, then, at the deterioration of self‑determinism, drawn against the curve of the deterioration of the individual’s production of energy. And as he produces less and less energy and consumes more and more energy, his self‑determinism follows on the same curve.
“So that when we have security in the future, we are back to a problem of energy.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Energy Problems delivered on 15 December 1953. This can be found in the 2nd American ACC lectures. Track 13.
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