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...students say they already had experienced heavy draughts of labor even before entering the college's gates. After graduation from junior or senior high school, all of them had taken up physical labor at an agricultural commune, factory or army unit for a period of at least two years...
...much of the drudgery of industrial existence without some of the compensations. It's a brutal life. I lived on a farm, but am really not myself a rural creature. I really love New York City...at any rate I'm not sure that rural life or a big commune is an answer...The earth and agriculture are an index of something we need and are rapidly losing, the human animal is geared to interlock with all kinds of raw natural environments. The coming civilization--that doesn't mean just here, but worldwide--must accommodate people, it's a commonplace...
None except the "elders"-experienced Children who apparently "grow" into authority-goes anywhere alone. Married couples share rooms within the commune, but single members are rigidly separated in male and female dormitories. Letters to and from home are censored by the elders. Many of the Children insist that the rigorous life is necessary to prepare themselves for the Communist takeover that they expect to come before doomsday...
...single order of symbols to work effectively on us all." The new myths must be internalized and individual, and each man must find them for himself. Some, in fact, are following mythological paths today, unconsciously and without design. The hippie who leaves society and goes off to a commune, for example, is being guided by a mythological map of withdrawal and adventure laid down by Christ in the desert, the Buddha at Bodh-Gaya, and Mohammed in his cave of meditation at Mount Hira...
They partly offset the shortage with the use of paramedics, who are called "barefoot doctors" in rural areas and "Red Guard doctors" in the cities. They are peasants, housewives and factory workers who divide their time between their regular jobs and medical duties. Based in commune dispensaries or urban "lane clinics," the paramedics get little formal training; they learn by watching and listening to physicians...