Our problem is a world-devouring vision that six billion people are pursuing. We can't legislate it away or vote it away or organize it away or even shoot it away. We can only teach it away. If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by old minds with new programs.
Vision is a flowing river.
Programs are sticks set in the riverbed to impede the flow of the river. But I don't want to impede its flow, I want to change its direction. Ease and difficulty are not the relevant measures. If people aren't ready for it, then no power on earth can make a new idea catch on. In our culture at the present moment, the flow of the river is toward catastrophe, and programs are sticks set in the riverbed to impede its flow.