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1. FEELINGS - THE NATURE OF BEING HUMAN



     SOCIAL SCIENCE - AND SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 1 



     After the first week each group will report about last weeks

activities.  Each week (Tuesday) there will be a presentation on

the next set of activities and chapter reading. The students need

to read and discuss the chapter(s) in their groups then assign

someone to write up a summary of the discussion and its connec

tion to the activity.  This is the first week.



     The purpose of social science is to think systematically

about human behavior. Physical sciences have accumulated "knowl

edge" of the "laws of nature."  Because of magnified thinking, 

science and technology has changed human life in basic ways over

the last few centuries. Science makes a distinction between

opinion and facts. Facts are parts of knowledge that can be

believed beyond a reasonable doubt. Facts exist independently of

the attitude of the person, their culture and interests.  The

practical applications of knowing more and having greater skills

is not a matter for debate. If the student as a person and as

member of a society is better informed and better organized than

other persons or groups they will be more sucessful. The smart

and coordinated will gain more points than the stupid and poorly

organized. Compare Haiti and Switzerland or Florida and Massachu

setts or Volusia County and Seminole County, to see the effects

of different levels of wealth, education, skill, political

institutions, and general sophistication.  We must make these

distinctions or everything becomes a meaningless blur. Of course,

some people will not like the comparisons.



     In evolution and "creationism" the idea of scientific facts

is tested against strongly held religious beliefs.  The facts of

geology, astronomy, evolutionary biology and even genics "prove"

that the universe is about fifteen billion years old and life is

several billion.  History is carried in our genes. We all agree

the earth spins around the sun, energy and matter are neither

created nor destroyed, to every action there is and equal and

opposite reaction, E=mc2 and we believe in other "laws of na

ture." These are "theories" that explain phenomena until there is

a "better" theory.  The clockwork image of the Newtonian theory

has been replaced by a "probability"  quanta theory because of

new observations in physics. The courts rule that "creationism"

is not a scientific theory but a religious belief. Our laws have

an administrative belief in the institutions of science,

journals, books, associations, qualifications, leading to

objective truth. This belief in reason, practical facts, and

applied theory is the basis of modern culture. They do not have a

modern civilization in Haiti because of the believe in magic,

voodoo, raw power and feeling over reason.  The poorest popula

tion in the new world are uneducated. There are  objective

realities and material consequences from behavior and beliefs.

All cultures and beliefs are not equal. If one idea or habit is

not better that another then nothing is of value - there are no

standards for judgment. Without standards the culture cannot

function well and produce wealth, power and success for the

individuals within that culture. We all hang together or we all

hang separately.



     The first issue for discussion is the nature of "knowledge"

and the role of science in the understanding of human relations.



     Question two is about the nature of human interactions. Can

there be a scientific study of man and society? If so what "laws"

have been discovered?  Is there a natural law in human affairs?

The golden rule reflects the need for people to treat each other

in ways they want to be treated. We do not want to be robbed,

beaten, unjustly imprisoned, cheated, or lied to. Therefore we

need to obey the law and keep the peace. Ethics requires we do

more than we have to and less than we can get away with. When we

do the right thing we may pay a price. We can gain by feeling

better or lose by feeling foolish. Since there are usually

several alternatives we can pick the ones that are most likely to

be ethical and practical.



CONNECTION TO EXERCISE:



     The beginning of understanding starts with ourselves and our

"group."  We learn to listen to each other and find out what is

important to us as people. What do we know about ourselves? "Who

am I?"  We learn by interaction with others and seeing how we are

the same and different. The beginning of awareness of the "world"

is by opening windows into ourselves and others. It has been

called conscienceness raising. A primary goal of social science

education is to become more aware of the connections between what

we are and the larger social and global context.  



     Discuss these ideas in your group. Write up a short

statement of what you believe. (Agreement and disagreement) Then

the groups pick someone to make a report to the class.  Find the

connection to the empathetic recall exercise.  What is the

mission for your life ? 





2.   WEEK TWO - PERSONALITY



     SOCIAL Science depends on a theory of psychology. Psychology

and the social sciences are not two separate subjects but just

ways of looking at the same issues. TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS or

SOCIAL RELATIONS is the study of people within systems. People

are not fully "human" except for social systems and groups and

societies are only collections of people.  The "ME" is the

interpersonal self and the "I" is the personality held out to the

world. 



     Psychology is based on the working of the brain. The under

standing of nerves and biochemistry of mind-brain functions can

give a solid foundation to understanding how people function. The

right and left brain (for right-handed people) is a physical

characteristic where the linear language center is located in the

left part of the brain and the visual holistic centers are in the

right brain. The YIN and YANG of personalities are the balances

between the ordered step-by-step left brain compared to the

pattern seeking and generalizing right brain. The Myers-Briggs

method is based on a psychology developed by Jung.  The four

dimensions of the test which are; introvert/extrovert, intu

ition/sensing, feeling/thinking, and perceiving/judging fit into

the two dimensions of the yin/yang right/left brain types. People

tend to be practical (extrovert, sensing, thinking and judging)

or spiritual, (introvert, intuitive, feeling, and preceiving)

male or female, structured or weblike. One type is extroverted,

sensing, thinking, judging (practical - concrete sequen

tial/experience) the other is introverted, intuitive, feeling,

abstract and reflective.  Social groups reinforce certain

characteristics and suppress others. Learning and behavioral

"styles" depend on biology (temperament) and social conditioning.

The "ME" depends on the nerves and chemicals in the brain, the

"I" is the result of family and social life. The two may match or

conflict.



     The individual seeks pleasure and avoids pain. Social

systems "function" as pathway of individual behavior - accepted

or repressed. These pathways can be open, partly open, closed or

completely closed. Evolution, cooperation and competition, set

the biological framework for the species. Human appear to have

evolved from packs. The "pack" or tribe has both cooperation and

competition in gaining protection from predators and other packs.

They cooperate in the long process of raising children.  (Compare

the movies "Arrowhead" of Ayn Ryan MGM? and "Our Daily Bread" or

"The Salt of the Earth" from Warner Brothers)The big brain of

people requires and large head. Babies have to be born small

enough to get out. Human infants are especially helpless for a

long time and need the protection and support of the group. Men

are only 20% bigger than women. This suggests that stable pairs

rather than dominate male mating patterns were common. In animals

where one male dominates the herd the males get very large

because only the toughest male gets to breed. The function of

social groups is to survive and reproduce. The development of

language, technology, social habits help one society grow and

expand, while other societies decline and disappear.  Vast

majorities of "tribal" societies have not survived and have been

overrun by more successful groups. 



     The expansion of the "White, Western" civilization in the

last few centuries was based on advanced military technology

(growth of modern science) and governmental and private systems

of finance, insurance, taxation, and other forms of social

organization. Honda and General Motors compete. One form of

social organization is superior to the other. There are winners

and losers of market-share.  So it is with cultures and empires.

The western capitalist system also is a form of "character" or

personality. The attributes of adventure, change, enterprise, is

summed up in "Achievement Motivation." Expanded roles of

individuals is seen through builders and conquerors of new

worlds. Money, wealth, possessions are seen as the symbols of

success. The stress on individualism lets us forget that

capitalism was and is a social event. Democracy (western style),

capitalize (western style), Protestant religion, and science and

technology are part of a "seamless web" of social interactions. 

Our superior civilization is now under attack by other cultures

with other advantages. History does not stop but keeps the

pressure on. Success leds to "arrogance" and the sin of pride

(hubris) is man's downfall. 



     TIME WILL TELL! The Egyptian culture lasted several thousand

years but is gone. Ancient civilizations have left us some

traditions and customs. The Classic Greek civilization along with

the Roman mixed with the Christian culture to lay the foundations

of Western Civilization. China has five thousand years of

civilization, 20% of the globe's population and a tradition of

balance, which maybe renewed in the next century. Japan has a

thousand-year old history of independence and the same Imperial

family.  Russia has had a hard time for a long time. America is

an upstart. Vast natural resources gave it a temporary advantage.

Its culture is multi-cultural and fractured. Its political

institutions have survived for 200 years, through one great civil

war, and the great depression. Europe has fought as various

powers have tried to control the others - Spain and the Hasburgs,

France, England and Germany. The European Community is the

dominate economic force in the world. The USA is the last

superpower. NATO has more than 50% of the world wealth and if a

new north Atlantic alliance survives will be successful in the

21st century. We live in a changing world culture where education

and technology dominate the future. The successes of individuals

and groups depend on a winning team. The race goes to the swift

the only change is the speed of change itself. 



     So what works? Functional analysis leds to objective

criteria for success. Evil is dysfunctional. Good is successful.

Hitler and communism failed, they were not valid systems. This is

not true for socialism as a whole or capitalism as a whole.  The

Japanese and European forms of collective capitalism maybe

functionally superior to individual free enterprise promoted in

the USA.  Because we are Americans, we may like certain styles as

a matter of taste. The "gun ho" collective style may offend us.

If we have to compete with the aggressive unified style of Honda

then G.M. must become more like them, as they have at Saturn. The

Germans have a functional apprenticeship system. They spend

$25,000 a year for up to seven years ($175,000) training youth in

academic and practical skill for industry. They really know their

stuff in machine tools, printing, looms, scientific instruments,

chemicals, etc. Both countries think long-term and have ownership

and finance patterns that promote long-term planning. France has

elite management schools including the "Les X" administrators in

government. The "plan" has promoted steady growth despite

political instability. Italy has many small specialized firms

that have world-wide markets, (clothing and shoes, gold chain,

construction, business services and equipment ). Within a global

economy we must specialize and push every advantage we can.







CONNECTIONS TO EXERCISE:



     What is your personality type?  Are you "here-and-now" or

:out-in-space?"  How much do you plan your activities and time?

Do you go step by step or just jump in and see what happens? Is

your group the same or different?  How do you begin to understand

others ?  



SOCIOLOGY: (Mexico) Use the functionalist approach and discuss

what are the advantages and disadvantages of different personal

ity types? What careers (page 78) are better for what types?  The

Global economy makes new demands for success. Higher level skills

(thinking, pattern seeking, innovation, cooperation, math and

science, etc. ) will be needed for high incomes in the future.

Low level jobs go "elsewhere". What is your plan? 



SOCIAL SCIENCE: Discuss human evolution. Is personality a product

of survival - some personalities do better - breed more and are

more common in the next generation? Is aggression more useful

than cooperation? What other social process is the result of

biology? (p 36 in the Textbook -Perry and Perry -7th edition)





3.   WEEK 3 - CREATIVITY



SOCIAL SCIENCE - Chapter 3 Groups

SOCIOLOGY - Chapter 3 Japan - Information Theory



     Humans become human by training. People learn their role and

"how to behave" from the social system - families, schools,

churches and other institutions.  This is tradition, folkways,

customs, morals, totem and taboo. Gemeinshafts are small village

and clan systems where people are individuals within a semi-

closed society. Gesellschafts are complex modern societies which

become impersonal. People become roles and function, rules are

semi-rational and technical, and there is more competition,

exchange and conflict. 



     Information processing - setting goals and objectives (sub-

goals) - knowing where to find information; ordering the vast

amounts of data (good, poor, and terrible) into a useful system,

looking for alternatives, and making choices based on facts and

reasoned risks is the critical survival skills of today and

tomorrow. We start with creativity because first we have to look

out side the ruts we are all in.  Social systems and traditions

are both guides and ruts. If you are lost its sometimes a good

idea to follow in the ruts of others and hope they know where

they are going - but sometimes its a good idea to look up and set

your own goals based on your own vision. 



     First we need to pay attention. Open our eyes! What is going

on here? What do we do when we don't know what to do?  

RE: How do we know what we are talking about?



To try to make the structure of knowledge more that a matter

of opinion is more or less impossible.  BUT there is the

ancient wisdom

But my opinion is better than most. Why? 

Because it makes sense. 

Because it reflect objective reality.

A good theory explains a lot. Makes what appeared separate -

operate on the same principles. 

My theory explains education. business, social problems,

politics, psychology, economics, philosophy, human

relationships, and how to behave - it may give us the

answers on who to manage the planet so we don't destroy our

grandchildren - 

I think that matters. 

It also is old - nothing new - it's as old as civilization.

Most cultures that survive believe the same thing - it's in

the bible - the Koran - Plato - Aristotle - St. Augustine -

The Sufi way - Zen - Biha'i - the Society of Friends - the

Seneca - the Hopi - The Aborigines - The freemasons - The

church and the Declaration of independence - some simple

clear principles - don't you see -



What are they ?

(I have a longer paper - on request)



No free lunch. (It takes work)



Entropy increases. (It take goals, missions)



Pay attention to one thing at a time (clear the mind, focus,

grounded, centered healthy mind and a fit body-)



Synergy is the unique human capacity - (it's social, work

together - man alone is not much but in groups WOW)



You are already perfect - don't be so critical of yourself

or other. (Rodney - Come on people - can't we just get

along?)



Get on with it - only God is certain - To seek certainty or

to believe you are certain is ideology - hubris - We can

only do the best we can by the light we have in us - and by

seeking - being and becoming - if we try. (We are only

human)

Maybe this is too simple - KISS - keep it simple - we are

not as smart as we think we are - we can only keep five

things in our head at one time. It's profound not complex.



First its a convention of language caries the cultural

paradigm with it. If I talk to a Greek or a New Ghanian he

understand within a different context than we do. A Russian

carries more Greek thought about freedom, liberty, etc. than

we do. They don't think you are "free to sleep under

bridges" or are free if you are subject to false beliefs and

ideas. Freedom is difficult to gain. One has to transcend

the local frame of thought (the cultural paradigm). Language

entraps us. 



Second - if we say a is like b, and c. A=b ( plus an

unexplained residual plus error) part of the unexplained

part is in c so a=b (R & E) + c (R & E) and so forth 



A= E (summation sign) (x's + R +E) n times where x 's are

all the elements we use to define or explain A. The errors

build up. Some of the residual is error, bias, statistical

auroras (we like what we like, and like what we know we

should like, and we like what people we like, and visa

versa) etc. If you explain school performance is 80%

explained by the education of the parents, the next factor

is income of parents, there is no unexplained residual for

schools, teacher salaries, books, etc. This does not mean

these factors don't matter. (You really need to use rank

order systems - because there are not all real numbers - IQ

and other normalized test scores (SAT) are not a real

numbers two people with 80 don't add to 160 but the results

are the same)



Therefore, social rather than physical issues contain too

much error to give more that a "preponderance of evidence"

rather than "beyond a moral doubt". Social and psychological

problems are a civil rather than a criminal case. They have

to be understood with "everything" we know. Not quite common

sense but logical conclusions. Better off students live in

better off communities that spend more money on their

schools. Poor kids live in poor communities which spend

less, where teachers don't want to teach, and conditions

tend to be bad. Rich kids aren't better kids (generically or

otherwise) the system has a bias toward the rich and

powerful and against the poor and powerless. The really

interesting case is HEROS - Higher math in East LA, District

# 4 in East Harlem - where someone is fighting the odds -

see it can be done. It take power and character. Surprise?



Why don't we do what we know. Why are systems so stupid?

They going on doing what they know (or should know doesn't

work - small units of time (credits) - broken up subjects -

big schools etc see my smart schools or see Fiske book - or

Goodlad, Glickman's article, The Emperor has no cloths -

look open your eyes ) It's communism! American Education is to

learning what communism is to economics. (Bennett, Bill Devaluing

America) stuck - it need a real restructuring!



This is the middle level of knowledge and we have a high

level of uncertainly. 

Therefore we have politics. 

If we knew the right answers we could hire experts and they

would fix it. The experts have a poor record in fixing

social issues. 

What have experts done with education? 

Why have they done so badly? 

Are they stupid, evil - no the system defeats them. 

(some are - self-interest - pride - hubris - over certain

schools of education teaching what they don't know and can't

do, superintendents shouldn't try to run things - have ideas

but create conditions where things can happen)

So they have to fix the system - right!

If your so smart. why aren't you rich?

My belief is that the people doing stuff should be allowed

to do it. To become a learning community. Second is

competition. The free market works better that communism -

state capitalism - become bureaucratic and incapable of

ration behavior.



When we get to the third level. What is the purpose of

schools. Who's aims do they serve? What about teaching

character - morals etc. We leave the real world. Different

groups are using term differently and we often don't know

what they are talking about. For some Christians, truth is

absolute and right there and they know it. For some liberals

"do your own thing" is a moral position. Grades are a

limitation on human freedom. It becomes the tower of babble.

SO my idea is what works? Schools need a moral value to

work. They can't be all things to all people. So again the

market. Little schools for true believers in military ardor

- black power - Fundamentalist Christian (as long a public

funds don't go to the teaching of there beliefs as part of

the state supported program - like in Higher education money

goes to support the students and Notre Dame and Liberty

University, Bob Jones not the theory) 



R0E: Unskilled labor



Why do we pretend to know what we know? We face the facts of

unskilled and unmotivated labor everyday in our classrooms. Kids

are passed on regardless. The lock step factor system doesn't

work and it just gets worse. 



Now we blame the students by calling them names - if they fail to

learn they are learning disabled, if they misbehave they are

emotionally disturbed, if they don't pay attention and don't do

their work they have Attention Defect disorder. There used to be

less that 2% really handicapped children. Now there are 10% or

more. Dyslexia is a rare problem but because Johnny can't read he

has dyslexia. 



What is the fault of the students and teachers and what are

system problems. Most are system problems (80% or more) but we

blame the parents, the teachers, the students, the politicians,

the far right, etc. Fix the problem not the blame. The cure is

simple and easy. SMALL SCHOOL ungraded and stable.





VOTE FOR HORACE

school board District #3



It is not your job to come up with new ideas. There are

plenty of great ideas but they almost all get all messed up

in the implementation. First, you have to fix the system so

anything can work. There is Goals2000, a good idea gone

strange - outcome based education, writing to read, house

system, middle schools, year round schools, assessment,

testing, special education, Heterogeneous Grouping and

curriculum design (SEE Effective School Practices, ADI,

Eugene OR, winter 93) and on and on. 



Your job on the school board is to help create conditions

where teacher can do their job. Freedom for professionals.

Small schools ( a building is not a school) allows

empowerment - then they can figure it out for themselves.

(askERIC) From the boring factory (x=grey) to the

consultation, involvement, participation of human relations

(y=pink) to the fired up - turned on - excited (Z=red)

groups.



That is what I do in my classes. About 1/3 get really turned

on and take charge. About another 1/3 do fine. The last 1/3

don't get harmed in anyway and may benefit in the long run,

they didn't try and if you don't try there is little I can

do. Now in a small school with a stable population I would

get 100% but the unit credit system makes teaching almost

impossible. I only have a fraction of a person a fraction of

the time. (They do need to do their algebra) This summer

it's better, almost all are involved maybe 75%. My job as a

teacher (guide) is to create an environment where this can

happen. It's fun. Joy is the clue. They are there early and

leave late. They are active and animated. It is a wonder to

see - all those grey faces in rows (up to 40 in the first

day of a class) become a turned on bunch of people all doing

their own thing (within the setup, sort of). I let go of

command and make a joyful noise. The point system means I

don't grade. I have expectation and the work in most cases

is clearly better and lasts longer than the traditional

system. (The man under the tree with a textbook who talks

and gives tests) See also Ted's Horace. (Sizer) I am glad

you are reading Smart Schools - See also Grant Wiggins on

Assessment (KAPPAN Nov 93)



RE: MAN AS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS:



Now that's silly. The fault is pride, hubris. The issue is

not science and technology - but the false idea that we can

do without higher missions. We as a society need missions,

an ideology, a belief system. There is no real dispute

between science and religion. How we see the face of God is

a process, and can be done in a logical and rational, or in

a spiritual or mystic way or both. Just don't think we are

God. God knows but I don't. 



This may be looked at as a "strange" answer but it works for

me.



2 Cor 12:1  Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies

that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and

especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and

sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according

to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace. (NIV)



I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up

to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of

the body I do not know-- God knows. 



And I know that this man-- whether in the body or apart from

the body I do not know, but God knows-- 



And I know that this man-- whether in the body or apart from

the body I do not know, but God knows-- 



I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast

about myself, except about my weaknesses. 



Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool,

because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no

one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or

say. 



To keep me from becoming conceited because of these

surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn

in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 



Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 



But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my

power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast

all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's

power may rest on me.



I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I

ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the

least inferior to the "super-apostles," even though I am

nothing. 



2 Cor 12:20 For I am afraid that when I come I may not find

you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want

me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy,

outbursts of anger, factions,  slander, gossip, arrogance

and disorder. (NIV) 



RE: Capitalism (American Style) and the City on the Hill 



The reason organized labor made much higher wages than other

workers was do to constraints on the free market. From

electricians who limited apprentice, and unions that got

laws passed requiring Union workers and memberships in

closed clubs. (In Chicago the Plasters slowed down the use

of wall boards for a generation). Auto and Steel workers 

collaborated with the price fixing of the big corporations

(U.S. Steel, General Motors, General Electric could manage

prices ) because high profits meant high wages. A really

free market pushes prices down and causes all kinds of

trouble. (Look at the Airline industry when it had real

competition - free entry of new low cost Airlines - no one

made any real money and wages were pushed down ). 



The government was used to protect these combines rather

than break them up. In Tucker "The man and his dream" you

see big business and government conspire to shut out the new

innovative enterprise. There was no mention of the UAW which

I am sure helped. (Owners don't have that many vote - they

do have money)



The City on the Hill speech, Ronald Reagan gave many times 

when we worked for GE's PR department in the early 60's. He

then gave the full text for Goldwater at the 1963

convention. It was the core of his 1980 campaign. (The

speech) The City on the Hill comes from Governor Bradford's

history of the Mayflower Compact and the pilgrims of the Bay

Colony. The history shows that "Puritan" were a better, more

virtuous people. They had left the bad ways of the old world

to found a society the would be pure in the new world. The

colony would be as a "City on the Hill" an example to

mankind of right living. The message is fundamentalist

(Calvinist) Christian and capitalist in principles. Reagan

also kept quoting from an false summary of Lincoln's pro

business principles. His favorite was that trying to help

others (the poor) just made them worse off, another that

someone being rich didn't make other poorer but that

individualism created wealth, Government just took it away

to support bureaucrats. 



The speech says the country was build by these pioneers and

their values. Hard work, rectitude, independence, self

management, private property, private wealth et al are

America. Now the Liberal elite (University people, media

type, and rabble rousers, bureaucrats and their

establishment supporters) where out to destroy our way of

life by undermining the principles which made us great. (The

central theme of the John Birch society is that groups like-

The Council on Foreign Relations, the Eastern establishment

are anti-American) 



The neo-conservative led by Irving Kristol,  William

Buckley, George Will and sometimes by Daniel Patrick

Moynihan (a fellow traveler) showed the flaws in tradition

new-deal policies. These policies often made things worse

for the people they were meant to help. The highway program,

public housing, welfare, are prisons for the poor and

infringes on their independence. The programs only added to

the power of bureaucrats and congressmen and created a lot

of middle class jobs for Democrats. The "social workers"

supported the Democratic machines and the one party lock on

Government. The "new-deal" programs bought vote from

minorities with public funds. The war on poverty was nothing

more that a system of ward healing by democratic operatives

in poor communities. All of this is not too far from true.

William Bennett's new book "The De-Valuing America" is part

political rightness but also a clear and correct statement

of what is going on - In Chicago Public Schools - for

example. Read the book before you pick on it.



Liberals got their moral in a tangle. Democratic conventions

with dozens of special interest groups (women, gays,

socialist, environmentalist, etc) feed the picture of a

bunch of "wild" people who were not the "silent majority" of

heartland America. This is the Cultural War (a poor phase

because it was used by Hitler to attach Catholics among

others Kultura Krig) Are liberals amoral? Do socialist have

no sense of values? Of course not. Are Republicans and the

Religious Right better people? Of course not. It's politics

but there is a real issue - The planet is suffering from a

moral crisis. The old authority structures no longer work.

(Tony Wallace - The Death and rebirth of the Seneca) There

are ghost cults. There are doomsday tribes. There are false

profits. This is what happens when cultures change due to

outside pressure. (Rome, the 18th Century, and today) We new

a new world order - a tall order - and a lot of Vision. 

Sixty type radicals only help the other side. Free livers

and free lovers are meat to the butcher. 



Christian liberals like those that have gain control of the

British Labor party need to have their morals clear and

clean. The left has no hope unless it reassures the

insincere middle that they are puritans - another tall

order. Norman Thomas (do you have to ask who he was? The

Socialist leader for many years - got 3 million votes in

1932), like President W. Wilson was a good moral man, I had

the honor to know - James Balwin - of the American Civil

Liberties Union - there is no finer American - where are

they now ? They also need a program of Jewish Christian

Western competitive capitalism (When I say Christian I mean

liberal Christian values, WCC types) - that is more than

Greed - Worker cooperation, social responsibility, global

ethics, and all the rest. (Al Gore may do, or another

Southern Baptist like Carter)