Vijfendertig jaar geleden: ontevreden? Re: 15-4-04


notes on the way from israel/india/japan: 11/11/'69~7/1/'70~~~~~
jerusalem 12 nov '69 ~ new delhi 6 dec ~ 29/12 hong kong ~ 30/12 osaka
liefdesverdrietverliefd

We are witnessing
the levelling down of all ranks of society
and at the same time the birth of a new sense of 'nobility'
which is binding together a circle of men and women from all former social classes.
Nobility arises from
and exists by sacrifice, courage and a clear sense of duty
to oneself and society by expecting due regard for itself as a matter of course and it shows an equally natural regard for others,
whether they are of 'higher' or
'lower' degree.

We need all along the line
to recover the lost sense of quality and a social order based on quality, the greatest enemy of any kind of masslevelling.
Socially it means the renunciation of all place hunting,
a break with the cult of the star,
an open eye both upwards and downwards,
especially in the choice of one's more intimate friends,
and pleasure in private life as well as courage
to enter public life.

Culturally it means a return from the television and the newspaper
to the book.
From feverish activity to unhurried leisure.
From dispersion to concentration.
From sensationalism to reflexion.
From virtuosity to art.
From confusion towards understanding.
From emptiness towards fulfilment.

Boys and girls travel and live
in order to discover ourselves and the outside world at the same time and we need patience in order to reach a level of justice.
We have to learn how to prepare the minds of the people to share:
which means for the rich to get rid of their superfluous luxury
and for the poor to shake of the shackles of tradition and frustration.
Our mentality has to develop in this direction pretty soon or
accept doom?
There is still hope but it needs a lot of work to transform it
into practical faith.
Our job is to awaken the sleeping beauty
before the end of this century.

The interests of the very few people in the world
who care for the values of freedom must be identified with those of the many who need bread or freedom will be lost.

We must take the responsibility for the life of all men
and develop on an international scale a relative sharing of wealth and a new and more just division of economic resources.

Changes in ownership must be made
to the extent to which they are necesary to create a community of work and to prevent the profit motive from directing production into socially harmful directions.

Income must be equalized to the extent
of giving everybody the material basis for a dignified life and thus
preventing the economic differences from creating
a fundamentally different experience of life
for various social
classes.

Man
must be
restored to his
supreme place in society:
never being a means,
never a thing to be used by others or by himself.

Man's use by man must end and economy must become
the servant for the development of man.
Capital must serve labor,
things must serve life.
Instead of the exploitative and hoarding orientation
and the receptive and marketing orientation,
the productive orientation must be the end
which all social arrangements serve.

No change must be brought about by force.
It must be a simultaneous one in the economic, political
and cultural spheres.

Changes restricted to one sphere only are destructive of every change.

Just as primitive man was helpless before natural forces,
modern man is helpless before the social and economic forces
created by himself.

We can protect ourselves from the consequences of our own madness only
by creating a sane society which conforms with the needs of man:
needs which are rooted in the very conditions of our existence.

A society which gives us the possibility of transcending nature
by creating rather than by destroying.
In which everyone gains a sense of self by experiencing our self
as the subject of our powers
rather than by conformity.
In which a system of orientation and devotion exists without man's needing to distort reality and to worship idols.

It does not mean the state of perfect harmony in which no conflicts or problems confront men.
On the contrary:
it is man's fate that his existence is beset by contradictions
which he has to solve without ever solving them ...

We will have to be adventuresome, courageous, imaginative,
capable of suffering and of joy
but our powers will be after all {Buddha/Yeshu a.o.}
in the service of life and not in the service of death.

Our dangers
are war and robotism:
what is the alternative?



~ to be continued ~ I hope ~
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