Shift in human consciousness

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in “systems” cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness, and …it cannot be accomplished through a simple organizational trick. This is something no revolutionary or reformer can bring about; it can be only the natural expression of a more general state of mind, the state of mind in which man can see beyond the tip of his own nose and prove capable of taking on–under the aspect of eternity–responsibility even for the things that don’t immediately concern him, and relinquish something of his private interest in favour of the interest of the community, the general interest. Without such a mentality, even the most carefully considered project aimed at altering systems are for naught.