Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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Our present society is plagued with secrecy, manipulation, decep- tion, but that is reality not illusion. For society to continue to grow scientifically, economically and socially some intervention is necessary to curb the insensate desire of humankind. The Soviet Union and the United States are two superpowers vying for absolute power. The former through mind control-slavery, the later through freedom, expression and tolerance. Indeed, the United States endorses covert and overt action in countries like Nicaragua, but that is for inter- nal security and a proper continua- tion of democracy. Democracy in 1984 is alive and healthy. The only reason why it is the most powerful force to be reckoned with is because it is run by the mechanics over Big Brother, not a covert Soviet politboro. The United States is a free nation, but freedom must have limitations; for if not anarchy would prevail and men would be propelled into a state of chaos similar to a Hobbsean state of nature. The State needs to be a mighty, coercive force to maintain basic tenets of freedom, but least not forget the people dictate control of the state. We as human beings know our limits, but the state must supervise our advance. George Orwell's predictions some thirty- five years ago where lucid, but il- lusory. We need not fear a Big Brother, but rather welcome such an institution as control. MARC M. ROSE '85

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Senior Week Carter and Mike Soloman Peter Loomis and Sarah VanOosterhaut Cabcl, Nancy Hoffman, Doug Chalmers Aretta Kanakaredes and Sandra Hachmann Horn 21