The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-12-04

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VTART II
REAcHiNTlwARD UToPIAs
There are1hose who have attempt
ed to solve re. problems of human
relationships byretreatins into fan
tasy. They have done this without TAX
ing into account either hulhan ma
ture or the forces that mould his
character.
Karl Marx contended that men af-
ter being freed from feudalism and
economic oppression would be cap
able of going forward with a new
concept of life. Subsequent events
have dissipated this prognosis. ITO
pianists Henry George and Edward
Bellamy understood little of mems
complexity of nature. Their theories
were the expression of popular yearn-
ing to escape the chaos and injustices
of the times. They sounded well on
paper but their mechanics were
too simple to fit the devious nitric
acies of an organism not endowed
naturally with a capacity for rea-
soning and incapable of freeing itself
from the emotional conflicts that
bind it.
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hit
Ter were convinced their role was
that of savior of their national peo-
pie, when the truth of the matter
is their unbridled ambition was a
mental unbalance; the expression of
an inner drive to strike at forces
within their environment that had
generated feelings of resentment
and inferiority The hordes that they
were able to enlist in their cause
were ignorant of the nature of both
cause and effect, and demonstrated
their failure to function satisfactOr-
lily in a social order
1t has been said that war is a means
of hiding from the people the seri-
Gus character of the worlds sickness;
a sickness that is difficult to cure,
for in our thinking, instead of TO-
cusing our effort on reasoning and |
enlightenment, we strive energeti-
cally to rationalize our conditioned
opinions and prejudices.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM
The problem is not a simple one
,ut it's solution must be sought in
he emotional breakdown of the hui
nan personality and not in political
naneuvering. Here in the United
states we have a high standard of
wing, high degree of literacy, and
long average life-span and yet we
ave the same Unsuitable unrest, the
anne struggle of man against man.
We see vicious little WARS" and
mall ''battles" in the home, in the .
hurch, in the schools and in every
ocial institution we can name.
The power of an idea provides a =
ehicle for the outlet of our repres-
ed emotions witch hunting, the :
Tazi debacle, the Communist move !
lent. Other factors such as hunger
nd sense of inequality give i'm .
etus to the idea and accelerate its
illusion. Once it gets started the
apidity with which it spreads is
henomenal and the more emotional
2 based it is the faster it takes hold. !.
The spread of an idea becomes !
angerous only when it is not weigh
i against the background of human I
xperience 1t has been very simple e
,r the acceptance of the authori- /,
lrian concept of government be- b
ause it is engrained by long CEN t.
lries of operation, perhaps begin p
ing with primitive man when the c
lther became the head of the clan,
ickling all the way down to the T
odern home. In fact it is deeply
,oted in the home which uses auth -
'itative discipline, repressive con- l
OILS, unnatural taboos, which can 1
can the development of guilt COM I
exes and the insecurity Of the ego. D
ack of recognition of this concept II
is prevented its investigation as .
'actical tool for achieving human u
ell-being. Lack of recognition of
5 implications has rendered it de-
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