The Cadre, November 28, 1975, page 2

Fundamental Prflmlem Today.

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Perhaps a sign of‘our time

is the great number of ora- cles, more and more of whom are academics, who go around spouting about this problem or that. And all of them are legit; they have valid points. When the Sierra club points to our indiscriminate

killing of rare animals, when

the environmentalists point out pollution problems, when the Marxists point ou* alie— nation, when the conservative vpoints out loss of culture, when M.I.T. points out our dwindling resource base, when Paul Erlich points out over—

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population, we'd better lis— ten'because any one of these problems, as well as a hund— red others could easily wipe out the human race, or at 4 least rob it of its vitality. Yet, perhaps the single linking factor between the doomsdayers, whether they be gurus, environmentalists or whatever, is that they all ‘believe the particular prob- lem they are arguing against {is the single major task presently facing mankind in its great drivetowards a perfect society: And, you know, it would be almost el-

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ementary to solve most of these problems. Got alien— ated workers? Turn the fac— tory over to them to run. Short on resources? Ban their use. Too many children being5 born? Shoot the excess.

Too much pollution? 'Shut off the factories and the cars

and so on down the list!

The point about all these solutions is that, while wor— kable, they directly threaten one of the bases of our so- ciety whether morals(Purit— anism), ethics (money), dem— ocracy (oligarchy— phitocr— acy) etc.

Therefore since the simple solutions are unacceptable, they lack for more complex, more technological answers. Bring in the pollution con— trol units, the mental hosd pitals, the artificial sub- stitutes instead of removing the sources of the problems;

.treat the symptoms—and use

whatever resources you‘can

l.muster to keep the symptoms

down. Hence, not only do you not solve the problem, you

‘ excerbate others by using

resources which could poss— ._ ibly have been used there or weregmore directly( lesser gas mileage — and oil reser- ves- to reduce auto exhaust fumes.) - '

The "problem of Problems"

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n' {of Raspurces

then, is that the solution

- or attempt at finishing

a solution— too freqUently

results in a worsening of

other problems; thateach time

we attempt to makeany pregr%‘ towards an answer to ‘

any problem,we lessen the -

p 001 of, resources;

human, societal, and naturaL

which we must live on.

Unless we make some att— empt to understand and ’to do something about this greatest of all problems, then there is no hope of finding a last- ing solution to anything until we plug our drain on these resources. The best we can do is to keep each problem at bay-while contin- uing to waste our resources in order tb‘keep them there.

The obvious duestion, of course, is what happens to these problems when we fin— ally run out of one or more of these fundamental reso— urces. ’ .

Hence, only oneconclution can be reached 4 that in- order to prevent prshlems from recurring over and Over and over, we must, at long last, stop this drain upon our resources.

Unless this problem is tackled, none of them is worthy of looking at. The others all hinge on it.’

VandaHSm- Again

Dear Editor: -

This letter is directed to the retard—imbeciles who obviously want normal people . to be aware of their pres—

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feel reel good. And why do how drunk you are, care.ab- you think that the only rea- out the person behind you,

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