Random Photos and Remarks

NOTES SUMMARIZING A LECTURE BY MARGARET MEADE, TELEVISED ON 3 JULY 1973:

1. Mother and Child, the first relationship – and then …

2. Family and Father,

3. Father and Son, and

4. Brothers and Sisters.

5. Consider how the human has been altered to become a cog in a machine in some gigantic system – turning humans to ants.

6. Do not be dominated by the computer, or other mechanical devices; they are but servants to our Humankindness, which is our true Genius.

7. And let us not linger, mourning, amid the ghosts that linger in the new morning.

8. People can learn.

9. Think of such a Human Nature and realize it in political will.

10. Resentment and Murder is the alternative.

11. Conquer technology with brains, by not being afraid to use it quickly and get the growing pains behind you: Get out into the bloody Bloom of things.

12. The voice of an Elder [such as Margaret Meade]

13. Our Family is the Earth.

14. We cannot save the Earth unless we save the nation. We cannot save the nation unless we save the family – the larger one: It is smaller than nation-size, and larger than little-white-bungalow-size (families extended and families maverick – our social and political network).

15. There must be ways to remember, without despair, our dangerous place.


Mural off Gough Street, San Francisco (on Eddy?):


WHY MUST A WOMAN FEEL MORALLY OBLIGATED TO GIVE BIRTH TO THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?
Images of the tiny person visible in the peanut-sized embryo make one marvel, but the woman who brings that embryo to term will not be taking on a peanut-sized task; after 18 years of parental labors and obligations the cumulative weight of that little peanut will be equal to the weight of 500 elephants. Not a fate that should be imiposed on anyone who does not want to take on such a mountain-sized commitment.


WHO IS THAT RAP, RAP, RAPPING ON MY RADIO?
I know that if I had the patience, some of the messages in Rap Music might be meaningful, but I find the repetitious rhythm and the sing-song rhyming boring as hell. "This is the very false gallop of verses," a Shakespeare character said of doggerel rhyming, "Why do you infect yourself with them?" (Touchstone, Act III, scene ii, As You LIke It)