"Master, is there a starting point in one's life, at which stupidity begins?"
"It is right from the cradle that stupidity is induced. The
logical Mind of the child keeps fighting against it, but in the
end, the superiority of numbers prevail. The child then learns to
know how it would be done, yet that the opposite is the NORMAL. A
ten year old may ask: 'Why has daddy to pay tax Mum'? and is
answered: 'because everybody who earns money has to'. The kid
then says: 'But daddy is in the employment of the government
himself', thinking it stupid to pay somebody first and then get
paid back. He realises that nobody sees anything stupid in it, so
he accepts it. Perhaps, later, he might wonder how many departments and
personnel could be saved by reducing the 'to and fro'
business of money, but by then, he has other things to do."
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