The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-06-06
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
.. WORLD IN A MESS.
., REAL HARVEST TIME
. FOR, SOOTHSAYERS AND
CHARLATANS
. ANARCHIST UTOPIA


II . ANARCHIST UTOPIA
The Worlds in a mess
Civilization seems to be in the throe
of death
Unless it is pangs of some gigantic
coming to birth
Up from the roots come pressure'
new
Starting at yesterdays ceilings arr
quivers, tremblings-
Things which Tories thought wer'
settled for ages
Become uncertain as smoke columns
rising in the rain
i, Having no place to rest their minds
on conclusions
Men shift their inquiries more freel!
in new directions
Even men of science find alterna
tives, instead of certainty
1t is harvest time for takers, sooth
sayers, charlatans-
X X X
Pride ruled for many year
Individuals, one-man minds, authori
ties
Arrogated each to himself un
limited sufficiency-
Acknowledging relationships only a!
something to be exploited
Laughing at ''co-operation," excep
when tagged as production"
Ignoring facts of mutual depend
ence, asserting isolation
Deriding society" and all it's deriva
tives-
Heaping ridicule on social" pro
gress as some mirage
Demanding credulity for some lii
about Human Nature
Which was declared to be baset
upon separate and antagonistic cells
Not daring, openly, to affirm the an
archist credo-
But daming by word and deed thu
basic facts of human relations
Today, standing in amazement-
At chaos, resulting logically from
such fountainheads- es......
X X X
Oh, there has been logical singlenes'
of mind
Property" has been branded, a!
something essentially "private"-
Education has found it's key in th'
individual" child
Whose Especial interests" and separ
ate aptitudes-
Furnished motive of educational pat
tern and curricula-
Specialists" have won the glory
demanding "confdence"-
Cities sought "Home Rule" as ref
uge from politicians
Estate Rights" were demanded al
safeguard for something or other
Usually revealed as some form O.
glorified piracy
Under name of corporations, phe
nagling with other-people's money
Then came "Nationalism," in efforts
at self-defense-
Against international piracy, com
mercial and military
Until the "Super Nation" emerged
largest unit of Individualism-
Milking every successful form O.
human association
From family life and racial units, t,
s-production and war.-b by ma
chimes
Until normal human minds reel ant
rebel at the horrible sequence
Unable to tell at which point in thi
vicious circle
The fatal fallacy came in
X X X
The Fallacy was at the beginning
In accepting as basic unit and idea
mistaken assumption
That human "person" is really a,
"individual'-
That Human Nature" is something
based upon zone NAM
That "social" is something invented
and dangerous
That association" is a plaything
for lodges and churches
That society" is meeting of gos
sips and hat exhibit
Cooperation" is a foolish, if no
subversive explosive
X X X
Come now, let us reason little
After two thousand years, across tn
seven seas
Experimenting with this contradic
ton to professed religious creeds-
Are we not almost ready, facing tn
logic of our practical faiths
This Nazi horror of the Super Man
Let us come back to Mother Earth
Give up this Anarchist Utopia