"I think I might as well remark here at the very beginning of my narrative about these Americans that almost all the contemporary three-brained beings who constitute the basic population of this part of the surface of your planet are occupied exclusively with these 'dollar businesses. '
"On the other hand, the trades and professions indispensable to the process of being-existence are practiced only by those beings from other continents who have gone there temporarily for the purpose, as is said, of 'earning money.'
"In this connection, the conditions of ordinary being-existence among your contemporary favorites, especially on this continent, have become completely, as it were, 'tralalalooalalala' or, as our respected teacher Mullah Nasr Eddin would say, 'like a soap bubble that lasts only as long as the air is still.
"At the present time there, these surrounding conditions are such that if, for some reason or other, all the professional specialists necessary for their ordinary collective existence stopped coming from other continents to 'earn money,' it is safe to say that within a month the whole established order of their ordinary existence would completely break down, for there would be no one among them who could even so much as bake bread.
GI #Gurdjieff, from the early 1900s, on Americans, and their need for #Immigrants. Beezlebub's Tales To His Grandson. Chapter 42 Beezlebub in America.
"...there would be no one among them who could even so much as bake bread."🤣
