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Life Socrates, I believe it was, once mentioned that the unexamined life is not worth living. For centuries now, his roar has echoed unheeded above the din of an apathetic humanity. Even today Socrates may seem outdated, for we tend to believe that since ours is a society technologically and democratically surpassing that of fourth century Greece, we have also maintained a comparable intellectual and moral superiority. But we have not, pertaining to matters of genuine consequence, we exist much as did the ancients and prehistorics, in ignorance. Men of every era have lived similarly, their lives have been restricted to cultivating a garden, they have not the time, nor are they willing to take the time to investigate their shortcomings. Conse- quently, few can imagine any other type of existence, fewer still are capable of realizing their visions. Humanity has established for itself a mediocre order founded upon the principle that existence must be justified by labor, in other words, that we should work for a living. We should not: work ought to be performed solely for its own sake. Work that is motivated by the profit incentive is not done as well as work without such an incentive. The world does not owe us a living, but it will be kind enough to provide us with one. 'You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either .... Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender .... They who work selfishly for results are miserable. Bhagavad Gita Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Matthew 6:28-30 Our lives are ridden to the extent of infestation with trivia. We admit joy in love, bitterness in defeat, and sorrow at loss, each petty occurrence acquires monumental sig- nificance of itself: our emotions are triggered by the inci- dent and not a conclusion or premonition which would be an outgrowth of ensuing thought pertaining to the incident. We become fettered and rendered incapable of seeing past the transient into something that would be at least less mutable. Sentiment becomes paramount, we sentimentally remem- ber childhood, adolescence, maturity, advancing age, our children and grandchildren. Instead of bearing an even- tempered recognition of success and failure as well as mediocrity, emotions are brought out for virtually any oc- casion and frequently replace reason. One of the greatest tragedies of any era is that people have no foresight. We allow ourselves to see only the im- mediate benefits of our self-directed actions, and act only for ourselves. Most of us will rarely act of our own violition for someone else, and if we do, it is usually with the thought that we are entitled to reciprocation. We ought to work more unselfishly for others and not worry so often about ourselves. The concept behind our education is disappointing, how- ever, the students must blame themselves for their own in- tellectual inadequacies, and cannot saddle voters, ad- ministrators, or educators with what is primarily the stu- dents' responsibility. Our formal education ought to be a compilation of knowledge, but our real education should extend beyond that. I have yet to meet a dozen students who have discovered the true end of education: that the knowledge which we are now accumulating should lead to wisdom. If we can grasp that, there is a chance for some- thing to emerge phoenix-like from what we now have. It is with this thought, that life bears the possibility of being worth living, that I have compiled, edited, worked, and reworked the opening fifteen pages. Psychiatrists and psychologists have offered us a glint of insight into the workings of a few deranged minds, for my own part, however, I have attempted to describe what makes all men march, and not lust some to the beat of a different drummer. Chris Meister Editor-in-Chief One life, a little gleam of time between two eternities. Thomas Carlyle I
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