Concerning the destruction and transformation by contemporary beings of these good customs which were handed down from the ancient days of their wise ancestors, our incomparable Mullah Nassr Eddin has also a very apt and wise sentence.
"Ekh! People, people! Why are you people? If only you were not people, you might perhaps be clever.'
"A favorite saying of the American Uncle Sam also does very well to define the same idea.
"It is said that when Uncle Sam from America happens to have drunk a little more gin than usual, he always says during a pause: 'When nothing's right - only then, all is right.'
"But for myself I will only say, in this case 'Wicked Moon.'
-G.I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, 1023
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