Show disuse of mentality would mean idiocy it la Is a funny place this world of capitalism with its Is astonish astonishing ini spread of ignorance ano and helplessness boast ing all the file time of its spread of edit cation and ment there stands the thousands of property owners and millions of wage workers or kera none of them able to make anything none of them knowing what to do until some body tell them none cone of them having the least notion of how it Is that they find people paying them money and things in the shops to buy with it and when they travel they ire are surprised to find that savages garages and Esqui maux and villagers who ahne to make everything for themselves tire more intelligent bud and resourceful the wonder would be if they were anything else we should die of idiocy through disuse of our mental faculties facilities if we did not fill our heads with romantic nonsense out of illustrated newspapers and novels and plays and mine such stuff keeps us alive but it falsifies everything for us so absurdly that it leaves us more or less dangerous lunatics in the real world george bernard shaw |