Word: hopi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's a nonpolluting culture, a non-growth, a non-Faustian Western culture going to be like? The people who have really been doing the research and development on that kind of culture have obviously been in the counterculture. The non-growth culture is closer to the Hopi Indian way of life* than it is to that of the jet-setting industrialist's. Frank Waters' Book of the Hopi is the most directly relevant book to something like The Limits to Growth. It's very clear that if you are going to humanize technology...
...Hopi way of life is deeply religious, with esoteric prayers and ceremonies that are supposed to maintain the harmony of the universe. *Paolo Soleri: an architect working with student apprentices in Arizona on schemes to redesign cities. Jean Piaget: eminent Swiss child psychologist. Gopi Krishna: Indian philosopher who has written about the evolution of man toward a new state of consciousness. The Lama Foundation: a commune devoted to the study of Eastern mysticism. *Ivan Illich: brilliant priest who believes in deschooling society but founded a school of his own in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Jacques Ellul: French historian and lay theologian...
Kachinas are the Hopi Indians' holy spirits, sometimes personified by masked, dancers or represented by wooden dolls. Thus the Hopis protested when Kentucky's Ezra Brooks distillery hit upon the less than divine idea of marketing its bourbon in bottles shaped like kachina dolls. "How would a Catholic feel," asked Tribal Chairman Clarence Hamilton, "about putting whisky in a statue of Mary...
After whizzing through four states, shaking every available hand, bombarding young and old with "no hogwash" speeches, supping with financial backers and hopping with Hopi Indians in front of television cameras, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris announced his candidacy for President in what was an anticlimax. By looking earthy and talking plain, Harris hopes to put together a "populist" coalition of society's "left-outs." He plans to enter the primaries in Florida, West Virginia, New Mexico and California, where he thinks a Populist approach may pay off. Like George McGovern, the only other announced candidate, he must be considered...
...Nothing is wrong in making as much bread as you need," he says, "but there are things wrong in making more bread than you need." To help ease that guilt, he has lately taken to giving away some of the proceeds from his public concerts?to, among others, the Hopi Indians. "I wish I were really part of the environment, part of the land," he says, "instead of a successful Caucasian." He is proud of his accomplishments, though, and will admit that "I like success almost as much as I dislike it." Aware of these mixed feelings, he is concerned...