But it would be to our advantage to try to cut the demand for drugs. Because of drug problems in this country, we are living in a glass house. And as the old saying goes, people who live in glass houses should not throw rocks, such as members of our government and media are doing by throwing rocks of criticism at Mexico. Your protest was nothing more than a reconstruction of the past with new beliefs in your human affairs, to the problems that now confront you, which will gradually be resolved. Protests are instrumental to change.
Protests develop theories to the knowing process which plays in human affairs.
Now, employ this conception as a guide in directing the application of your human intellectual activities to your contemporary social problems, and your experience. Experience is not an object known, but rather an action performed. You see, thinking arises as a means of dealing with disturbing situations, by working out hypotheses, or guides to future actions. The merits of these intellectual acts are determined by a practical criterion, by whether you as an organism can function satisfactorily. Thought, especially scientific thought, is instrumental in problem solving.