“Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.”
How to Manage Mom and Dad (November/December 1994)
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Source: Memories of My Life (1908), Ch. XX Heredity (1909 ed.)

Source: The Last Messiah (1933), To Be a Human Being https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6vvaY-Wo&t=1110s (1989–90)
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 1. Basic Elements, p. 37

Source http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1995/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19951008_baltimore.html Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Sunday, 8 October 1995
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“Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population.”
Spark (2014)
Context: Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
Source: Society as a complex adaptive system (1968), p. 490.
Source: 1950s, General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science, 1956, p. 200