Rereading Jack Havig's account of Berkeley, 1970, I wonder whether to comment but check and find that I have already done so better than I could have done now. See: Gadarene Swine. This novel was first published in 1973, only three years after "Berkeley." We are rereading it in 2025. The issues have not changed. We have moved closer to the blowup and breakdown that Havig experiences in the further future. Or, if we imagine ourselves as in the Technic Civilization timeline, then we are still in the Chaos. I will reread something more cheerful, maybe attend meditation group, and then return to this Maurai History.
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Kaor, Paul!
And the comment I wrote for "Gadarene Swine" continues to be applicable now. Anderson would have had as much scorn for the PC woke "radicals" of today as for the Berkeley leftists of 1970. Both are much the same!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The main point is how do we save the world, not which other groups do we scorn?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Instead of repeating principles/policy proposals you would probably disagree with I'll quote this bit from the end of Chapter XXI of OPERATION CHAOS: "You will not, repeat not, get improvement from wild-blue yonder theorists who'd take us take us in one leap outside the whole realm of our painfully acquired experience; or from dogmatists mouthing the catchwords of reform movements that accomplished something two generations or two centuries ago; or from college sophomores convinced they have the answer to every social problem over which men like Hammurabi, Moses, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Jefferson, Burke, Lincoln, a thousand others broke their heads and their hearts."
This will get copied into my second Andersonian notebook.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
How does that answer the question?
Paul.
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