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nate just the basic commodities which a just so- ciety owes them: their food, clothing, shelter and warmth, least of all, affection. And lest you believe me simplistic, I ' m aware of the ar- guments on regenerative wealth and Gulf Oil ' s concern with the environment in Portuguese Africa. Portuguese Africa? By what right does one man possess another? And a study by Har- vard University has reported no significant holdings in Gulf Oil, which of course has al- ready determined that no significant justice would be served by playing an active role in the de-colonization of Portuguese Africa. It is unfortunate that we all cannot help but be guilty for our nation ' s acts. We buy our food- stuffs directly from a company making napalm or bombs, our clothing from a company polluting most of Delaware, our shelter from corporations which cheat consumer and em- ployee alike, our warmth from companies oppressing North or South American Indians or African natives, and our affection with good dope from Columbia or from a whore on the street. Most frightening is that the majority of these exposures provoke neither shame nor a sense of guilt, although they are a violation of some of the most fundamental moral taboos of civilization. The legitimacy of these actions is not questioned. Some say, Because our society functions in spite of, then it is justified. But lest we forget, the times they are a changin. We can now believe in long hair, our self-ri- tualizing blue jean society and the new poli- tics. We can hate business and government and American pie because we have nothing else in our blindness to hate. I can tell you where its at and where it isn ' t and you can tell me the same thing and I ' ll be damned if we don ' t recite totally different diatribes. We ' ve become experts at talking but our logic is stren- uous and our beliefs almost dissolved. We incline towards doctrine and very seldom think individually. But then, we ' ve got bruises and scars to show for our wounds and isn ' t that good? Didn ' t both Dostoevski and Sartre believe that true life was a life of insult and suf- fering? Didn ' t both Nietzsche and Van Gogh die as evidence of that insult and suffering? Didn ' t Martin Luther King say, We shall over- come? Well then --we probably will, granted of course, we aren ' t overcome first. We must each answer for the acts of the regime or leaders we tolerate, allow to rise, and give active or passive support to. We are each responsible for everything - - for our delusions and the delusions to which we succumb. We have the responsibility to delve into the root of things and the only important question is whether we do it before or after the fact. This is the logical requirement of human freedom and dignity. I know that whatever kind of world my own children have to grow up in, neither should they have to write such denunciations of their society nor feel the same guilt and shame I have felt in my lifetime. I believe we all deserve much better. But if we are ever to accede to a better life, we must accept full responsiblity for our present lives.
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from the members of that state. We have con- sicously chosen to forget that the state of which we speak is bonafide only when it evolves willingly from its peoples ' wills. These ar- guments are trite, but they hold true. A people presided over by a state separate from them have no rights. It is rather easy then, to understand why both Nixon and Agnew alluded to devisive policies of the Democratic Party. They reproached Mc- Govern for co-authoring a set of rules which gave substantial representation to disenfran- chised minorities. And they stiffened their charges by crudely polemicizing on America (sic) as being no place for quotas that this land is still that great salad bowl where men mix their beliefs and attitudes and so string the whole. Yet, if one were to gaze out upon the convention, he or she would be hard pressed to find a minimal number of voting blacks, young people, Spanish Americans, Indians or other distinct minorities. And if the white Nixons in this country are of the majority, well, then, one would be well advised to consider James Madison ' s articulations on majority tyranny in the 10th Federalist paper. The wars are still with us, although we wage them by highly technological means (anti-per- sonal bombs, napalm, computers etc.) rather than the fists of visable men. I expect should we ever really end the war in Vietnam, we won ' t really end it, but just extricate ourselves a little differently than we might have years ago, before Cambodia, before Laos, and before ' the North ' occupied land 10 miles from Saigon. We ' ve got bigger and shinier Cadillacs equipped with self-accelerating mechanism, self-sticking American flags and name plates, Panasonic tape decks putting out an accolade of Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash hero songs, bigger chrome bumpers and love it or leave it signs. I ' m still an innocent and can ' t understand why one must lie and cheat and steal to make all the money he can. I still cannot understand why the rich and powerful refuse to pay the taxes that directly or indirectly would allow the less fortu-
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