FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971
'Our Destiny is Our Own'
by Eddie Catoe
Everybody these days is say
ing "we got to get together," but
I think that before we can get
together we have to first figure
out where we are, and how our
present position relates with
relevance to the "fate of our
world." The following words
will attempt to show this in
some integrated fashion.
For a decade we have pre
sented to diverse groups a sense
of common cause. We saw lots
of things wrong and we spoke
out about them. We saw nothing
right and could not even offer a
viable alternative. Our protesting
was a source of energy for social
mobilization. What was missing,
however, were the "skills," or a
plan to make a transformation.
Without these "skills" or with
out the means to deal with
problems we soon found our
selves even lacking the will to
mobilize. Of course we managed
a bit of mobilization, but it was
all very insolent because all we
could do was protest. In short,
we caused a lot of chaos. So
nobody listened, because every
body shouted. A workable alter
native was needed.
Unfortunately "middle Amer
ica" was and is our only support
for success and we can't esta
blish credibility with them by
protest alone. I am not con
demning the demonstrations and
riots of the past decade, they
certainly had their perceptive
impact on society. Protest crea
ted a most needed awareness of
our societal problems. And so
there was a destined time for
that, which leads us to what is
happening now.
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The biggest thing happening
is the movement to the land.
Lots of freaks are searching for
the simple life by getting close
to Nature. Of course, sometimes
it's not such a simple life,
because surviving on the land
can get tough. Many times food,
water, and shelter are scarce. A
person has to find a whole new
adaptive scheme if he is to
survive on the land.
Lots of people, including
critics, say that the land freaks
are "marginal drop-outs." They
simply say that they've copped
out of our society, but there is
more to it than that. The people
on the land have escaped from
society to find a more meaning
ful life for themselves. The
escape is a reaction to the
meaningless city and to the
meaningless protest, and to the
political problems of a decade of
spastic striving. I am convinced
that the land freaks and those
many youth who are sitting
quietly in some forgotten hole
of society are laying the founda
tion for a new system of ethics
that will apply to our technolo
gical society. That is why I do
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not feel that the journey to the
land and the journey to apathy
is a cop-out. Youth are rediscov
ering those very basics that our
industrial society has come to
take for granted.
The land freaks have resorted
to an old order so that they
might redefine contemporary
life and from that establish a
new order. The seeds from this
new order are being planted by
the search for an integrated
whole, a wisdom that is one with
itself and one with what it
shows. It is not a search for
analysis, rather it is a search for
a whole pattern to the scheme of
things. It is a slowed down trip
of gazing and wondering about
the mandalas of human exist
ence. It's a tune-in on Nature
and on the environment, it's a
tune-in which allows for the
human understanding of the
"biological rhythms" and
"rhythmic patterns of Nature."
The sun gets up-you get up.
The sun shines hard all day-you
work hard all day. The day is a
bit slow and all encom
passing—you are a bit slow and
all perceptive. And then the sun
goes to sleep and so do you.
This search for a new order is
reactionary to what industrial
man has done and what techno
logical man can do. We have
concerned ourselves long enough
with dehumanization. We
shouted enough about industrial
man and his little machine called
beauracracy. All that is coming
down anyway, just look about.
Our concern now is the potential
of technological man. At this
point Nature is on the spot, we
are on the spot, with dangerous
odds. We can make it or break it.
The forthcoming new order will
say "we can make it." It will
offer a plan of survival.
Our reaction to technology
has been quite excessive. It is
excessive in the sense that we
fail to see a very real bond that
exists between technology and
Nature. Technology is very
important and not second to
Nature, rather both are equally
important. Most of us are where
we are because of the affluence
that has been provided by
technology's play on Nature.
There is an aspect which counter
balances this excess. It is the
aspect of seeing things whole,
and with a bit of time it will
enable us to see the bond that
does exist between technology
and Nature.
We are running a race with
technology, and there isn't much
time left for man to win. It is so
important that we find a flexible
perception which will allow us
to see the whole. Specifics will
come, however, the general dir-
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ection is necessary before spe
cifics can ever be discussed.
Knowing where we are is nece
ssary before we can ever discuss
"getting together." We need a
sense of destiny or purpose, then
we can "get together." Let us
join together and say, "we have
inherited this sick world; there
fore, it is ours to rebuild." How
can I further stress this point? I'll
say it again, OUR DESTINY IS
OURS.
The old order no longer
applies and it is mandatory that
we discover a new order by
whatever means necessary. Whe
ther we have to go to the land,
whether we have to give our
selves to God through Jesus, or
whether yoga is our bag, we have
to put together a new ethical
system that will enable us to
deal with an unprecedented new
world.
And so, our first response was
a crusade to reform the world,
but we had no plan. And we
wanted people to find a place
where they could feel real good,
but there was no plan for
providing such a place. And so
we took a trip to the land, and
to various alley ways of the city.
And so we stopped our yelling
and shut our mouths and
became quiet. And so we con
template on a new order.
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