I woke up this morning to Alan Greenspan on the Today programme saying: "Societies have to make choices as to whether they want more material well-being or more tranquillity. Regrettably, I think they cannot have both." Strange words to hear from an economic guru but all the more potent as a result. I think we've tried, since the fairy was born, to do the material well-being thing. We are not particularly good at it. It is literally making me ill. But I do want the tranquillity bit of it. Even the word sounds good. So I guess it might be a choice. I hadn't realised that.
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