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How Much Does It Cost To Achieve The Right Quality Of Life For All?

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Dear Reader, Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. (Margaret Mead)  Her life came to an end in 1978, but Margaret Mead was a pioneering but sometimes controversial cultural anthropologist who created the basis for much-revised thinking in western society. Conservatives did not much approve of her approach, which was to do with her underlying view on the nature of human thought.  Putting aside her major work on sexual attitudes - which can of course be controversial - there is a theme that she identified that can be taken to identify and explain all our attitudes. Her most important view, not previously much recognised, was that it was the social expectations and norms that had developed slowly for centuries that laid the groundwork for each individual’s psychological makeup. Hence, in line with rationalist thinking that has developed in the last few hundred years, our general tendency is to think that if we are to change things, we should be most focused on outward-