"While religion could rightly be a private concern of each person, it could not serve as the basis of public activity. Pure self interest becomes the sole basis for establishment of the state" - John Locke
Adam Smith like Locke, beleived that basis of all human activity is material self interest. Since this is natural, we should not condemn selfishness by erecting social barriers to its pursuit.
Beleiving that men and women are basically egoists in pursuit of economic gain, Smith's theories subordinate all human desires to the quest for material abundance to satisfy physical needs. There are no ethical choices to be made, only utilitarian judgements exercised by each individual pursuing self-interest.
"A science is any discipline in which fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of last generation" - Anthrapologist Max Gluckman.
Living systems are open systems. Both matter and energy are exchanged with the outside. Living systems can never obtain an equilibrium state, while they're alive, because an equilibrium state means death.
French Proverb : "Happy People dont make History"
Technological specialization so limits the scope of operation of each function in society that it is virtually impossible to readapt a particular function to perform a different task. We have come to the point where each of us knows more and more about less and less until as a society we all know almost everything about nothing.
