Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Eve was first exhibited during the Victorian age, people had to remind themselves that the mother of mankind had been "naked and was not ashamed" and that there was no need to fear it would introduce "foreign indelicacy among our women...
...dedicated Red. So thoroughly did they train their child that Roger was selling the Communist newspaper L'Humanité on sidewalks at the age of nine. At twelve, he was militating in a Communist youth gang, apparently convinced on his own that Communism was the answer to mankind's problems. During the long hours of his stretch in solitary at reform school Roger began to doubt Red doctrine. Later, the sympathetic director of the school persuaded him that he could do more for humanity by becoming a priest than by passing out Communist pamphlets...
...Thus the hubris of rationalism is matched by the hubris of irrationality, and the messianic arrogance of the Christian crusader is matched by the Yogi's arrogant attitude of detachment towards human suffering. Mankind is facing its most deadly predicament since it climbed down from the trees; but one is reluctantly brought to the conclusion that neither Yoga, Zen, nor any other Asian form of mysticism has any significant advice to offer...
...wait until an external mechanism influences human activity. Since man's environment becomes less and less influenced by 'natural forces' and more and more by social forces determined by man, he himself can take control over his fate." Enter birth control. Von Foerster declares that if mankind wants to avoid the doomsday of infinitely crowded population, it must establish a control mechanism, a "peoplo-stat," to keep the world's population at a desired level. This can be done at present by what he considers comparatively painless methods, such as heavy taxation on families with more...
Dialogue with Jehovah. The plot is strung on the ancient Hebrew legend of the Lamed-Vov or 36 Just Men, who, although indistinguishable from their fellows, take unto themselves the collective grief of mankind: "If just one of them were lacking, the sufferings of mankind would poison even the souls of the newborn, and humanity would suffocate with a single cry." So frozen with man's woes is the Just Man that sometimes when he rises to heaven, "God must warm him for a thousand years between his fingers before his soul can open itself to Paradise." Author Schwarz...