Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there is the matter of truth. They assert that the CRIMSON's position was "an offense to a community of truth-seekers." This apparently constitutes a singlehanded claim to "truth" and the banishment of the CRIMSON editorial board to obscurity. But it seems to me that, while not necessarily agreeing with the CRIMSON stand, there is unquestionably a moral and scholarly basis for agreement. The U. S. Army has presumably been fighting more than ghosts for seven years, and the goals and motivation of the forces that have withstood that onslaught, the National Liberation Front, are at least worthy...
WHAT ROSZAK is saying, in short, is that "objective consciousness is alienated life promoted to its most homorific status as the scientific method." This explains the willingness of social scientists to pursue "truth" for anybody's money and purposes. But its implications about our culture are more telling. We all treat one another and everything else as unresponsive objects from the start. Openness is precluded; locked into our own heads, we are unable and afraid to make real contact with anyone or anything. Psychic alienation, or repression by objective consciousness, is the central fact of our lives...
...come up with romantic culture heroes as good as our imaginary Dick Farina very often. Why does someone feel obliged to come along and destroy them with one or another dispensable version of the truth...
...things considered, an immediate, unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops that would leave South Viet Nam to its fate is an inadequate, emotional solution to a complex and tragic problem. What, then, are the alternatives? The harsh truth is that there are few available to President Nixon. It is still conceivable?but barely?that Hanoi would agree to a ceasefire, followed by a mutual withdrawal of military forces. Any political settlement that would come after this truce, however, would surely require N.L.F. participation in the government of South Viet Nam; that compromise decision would have to be forced upon the Saigon...
...exactly what is good and what is evil, and never in doubt. For it was not to him that El Greco, Thomas Mann and Dostoyevsky spoke, but to him who undergoes an endless process of self-development, whose unrest is not general but directed towards a search for the truth about himself and his mission in life." Between such an audience and his actors, Grotowski attempts to induce what Artaud called "a cosmic trance" and what Grotowski calls "secular holiness...