"Man's stupidity, Master, is showing everyday, that it has penetrated our lives deeper than we can guess."
"I'm glad you are so observant. What particular feat was it that caught your eye?"
"It was at a university, for some symposium or other. At the desk, they were handing out pencils to each of the participants in order to let them make a few black marks on a computation form. I realised that these brand-new, costly pieces of primequality wood, would probably never be used again. Then, in 1990, I thought that this use and production of pencils, the cutting down of costly trees to make them, is still going on, all over the world, while I still can use a simple aluminium device that grips the lead core admirably, that is without wood destruction, and that simple thing is still operational from 1960 onwards."
"So it is. I told you that one can find one stupidity on almost every square meter about us. What about the huge mountains of news-paper, only of value for one single day? Enfin, ... you are correct. Stupidity is limitless. You'd do better by sticking to the Way."