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     DEAR CADRE, 
     
    

    
     From the editorials and 
     
     articles I have read writ- 
     
     ten by Stan Dalton, it se- 
     
     ems to me that Stan's voc- 
     
     abulary consists of only 
     
     one word - capitalism, and 
     
     its various forms. 
     
    

    
     Really, it tends to get 
     
     rather boring. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sincerely yours, 
     
     Bored Capitalist 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Bored Capitalist, 
     
     Go straight to helllll 
     
     Inspired SOClallSt 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Discouraged: 
     
    

    
     It's great that we have 
     
     got some gut issues. I has 
     
     ve been asking some of the 
     
     same questions and I find 
     
     that they are not being an- 
     
     swered to my satisfaction. 
     
     However, I think that they 
     
     can be answered if you se- 
     
     ek wisdom in the right way 
     
     and if you are patient, 
     
     yet critical, some of your 
     
     questions can be answered. 
     
     Don't give up. 
     
    

    
     ' Hopeful 
     
    
   
   
    
     'To Very Discouraged, 
     
     I will answer as best I 
     
     can. Yes there are Chris- 
     
     tians on campus but they 
     
     are content to sit back hi 
     
     a church and listen to the 
     
     minister (priest) tell th— 
     
     em about their special re- 
     
     ligion, for the majority 
     
     of them will not find out 
     
     for themselves. Yes, we 
     
     all live in a democracy 
     
    
   
   
    
     mm  
     
     M are; w 
     
    
   
   
    
           
     
    
   
   
    
     but we have never really 
     
     had to defend our Olitl- 
     
     cal beliefs, yes e have 
     
     people who are happy but‘ 
     
     most of them are too busy 
     
     feeling sorry for themselr 
     
     ves to ever stop and con-. 
     
     template just how much 
     
     they have to live for. _ 
     
     You have some very seri- 
     
     ous questions and the ans- 
     
     wers are hard to findfiif 
     
     there are concrete answers 
     
     to your questions. I can't 
     
     answer your questions nor 
     
     can I tell you what is go- 
     
     od. Perhaps the "simple ' 
     
     things" in life are good7' 
     
     i.e. walking down the st- 
     
     reet with a smile and a 
     
     greeting for everyone, he- 
     
     lping others to achieve th- 
     
     eir goals while you stand 
     
     back out of the lime-light 
     
     and look on, or achieving 
     
     your personal ambition wi— 
     
     thout destroying another 
     
     person. But who really wa-‘ 
     
     nts it? Who is content to 
     
     sit back? How many want 
     
     fame, glory and an audien- 
     
     ce ~no matter if it's just 
     
     within a small community 
     
     or throughout the world? 
     
     Not As Discouraged 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Stan, 
     
     Your reference to capita— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’lism is certainly very wi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     se but I am afraid it is a 
     
     bit too academis and I'm 
     
     sure it does not alleviate 
     
     the pain "Discouraged" fe- 
     
     els. 
     
    

    
     Your paper doesn't seem 
     
     to be changing student li— 
     
     fe too much either. I thi— 
     
     nk if you really listened 
     
     to people you could help 
     
     them get off on the right 
     
     track. Most people think 
     
    
   
   
    
     the system/can't be chant 
     
     ged until they have the 
     
     courage to change themselh 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     m," my,” Juan A 
     
    
   
   
    
     .and let him/her take the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ..‘._.\,.,.«.i.e.;l . < . _ . i . . . I - ‘ ..‘.,<‘V*.£.ta.”", 
     
    
   
   
    
     ves. 
     
     In essence you seem to be 
     
     saying and I agree: 
     
    

    
     "To be wise is to know yo- 
     
     urself. To have courage is‘ 
     
     to change yourself. Surren— 
     
     der is to accept yourself. 
     
     That is a distorted quote 
     
     that a student once quoted 
     
     to me under similar circune 
     
     stances as "discouraged". 
     
     Be careful that you don't 
     
     give a political anSwer to 
     
     a very personal and deeply 
     
     emotional question. 
     
    

    
     Dianne M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jewr Vienna 
     
    

    
     But what you fail to see 
     
     is that the emotional pro- 
     
     blem is rooted in the pol— 
     
     itical-economic sphere: 
     
     alleniation is not possib- 
     
     le unless that which gives 
     
     rise to it (capitalism) is 
     
     overcome. Until we see cap- 
     
     italism as the source of 
     
     the contemporary, North Am- 
     
     erican malaise we will con- 
     
     tinue blindly groping for 
     
     solutions that will inevit— 
     
     ably be capitalist soluti- 
     
     ons and, hence, no soluti- 
     
     ons at all. Your dictum, _ 
     
     "To be wise is to know yo— 
     
     urself", is not completely 
     
     true since self-knowledge 
     
     is no guarantee of wisdom, 
     
     rather, a structural syst— 
     
     em of knowledge wherein 
     
     reasons can be given for 
     
     your views. attitudes, ac- 
     
     tions, etc. Your second 
     
     dictum, "To have courage 
     
     is to change yourself" is 
     
     partly true because cour-, 
     
     age is required for self- 
     
     change, but, however, is 
     
     no definition for courage. 
     
     Your third dictum, "Surre- 
     
     nder is to accept yourself" 
     
     is vague to me. It smacks 
     
     of Christian aquiescence 
     
     which is, ultimately, res- 
     
     ignation and defeat. 
     
     Strictly speaking, you're 
     
     right: emotional prdblems 
     
     should not get political 
     
     answers. However, my inte- 
     
     nt was not to be theraputu 
     
     ic in the psychological 
     
     sense, rather I was trying 
     
     to point out the causes of 
     
     "Discouraged's" despair 
     
    
   
   
    
     appropriate steps from the- 
     
     re. . . 
     
     Stan 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dear Editor: 
     
    

    
     I must apologize to Don 
     
     Cregier for the manner in 
     
     which I phrased some ofIW 
     
     criticisms in my letter of 
     
     Oct. 31. I am sure that he 
     
     will understand that in 3 
     
     effort to complete a rath 
     
     -er long article my emotiv 
     
     ns were running rather hf 
     
     gh by the time that I was 
     
     appraising his’article. 
     
    

    
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