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Egalite! - Why Not Utopia? - Online Book content
Is freedom anything else than a right to live as we wish?
Epictetus
Egalite, collective image psychology online book content
We ask eternal questions. Where do we come from? Where do we go when we die? What is the nature of our reality? We cling to Biblical certainties in the hope that the longer we believe, the more likely it is that what we believe is true.
BOOK PART ONE :: New Answers for Eternal Questions
No age murdered more than ours. National antagonisms, exaggerated by technology, generate atrocity. Drive-by homicides turn cities into shooting galleries. Pollution is ubiquitous. With so many evils loose in our world, it is painful to contemplate what we have become, but perhaps we need not be as bad as we think.
BOOK PART TWO :: Sources of Collective Inferiority
Different times adopt different religions. With each change of mind we ignore former certainties as well as inconsistencies within the new understandings. We believe in cause and effect, in beginnings and ends, and in Gods without beginning or cause. We say clocks imply calcaneus and universes imply universe makers, but we do not know how universe makers begin. Tomorrow is unknown, but religions describe eternity and we take their words for it.
BOOK PART THREE :: Problems, Problems, More Problems
Something is seriously wrong with a technology that exalts ends over means. We invent poisons to eradicate mildew, relieve clogged drains, and eliminate ring around the collar. We regret the damage, but these products make housework easier. Easier housework outweighs environmental considerations. I am guiltier than most. I change crankcase oil, refinish furniture, and use oil based paints. I clean paint brushes with paint thinner and wash everything down the drain of the back hall slop sink. My individual pollutions are inconsequential, but when many do the same thing, technology turns collective and malignant.
BOOK PART FOUR :: Embracing the Future - Possibilities
Until recently societies changed slowly, but with the advent of electronic media social change accelerates. Women's liberation begins as individual idea and becomes collective practice fifteen years later. The voting age is reduced to eighteen. Hippies and drop outs, graffiti artists and rock stars spring from nowhere. Generation gaps widen. Terrorism flourishes. Crime soars. New visions overwhelm us.
That's all folks.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No Hell Below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
John Lennon
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