Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escape your "hell on earth": 3) no equal education: because educating your kind will lower both student and teacher standards: 4) no justice: because, for some odd reason, you won't cooperate with the system punishment for your dislike of our laws must be judiciously enforced even against your rebellion...
Kaufmann is not opposed to marriage, religion, schools of thought or youthful rebellion. He believes in commitments based on responsible-and revocable-decisions. "The free man," he writes, "does not treat his own conclusions as authoritative; he chooses with open eyes and then keeps his eyes open," admitting, if necessary, "that he may have been wrong even about matters of the greatest importance." Easier said than done; as Kaufmann admits, it is hard to find people who have mastered decidophobia. In the ancient world, he says, Socrates did so; among contemporaries, he cites the Russian novelist Solzhenitsyn...
...rebellion or alienation that leads to pot use as much as the life-style of certain groups-and lifestyle and patterns of social behavior cannot readily be changed by legal fiat...
...bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation incites the powers of rebellion which sheer sympathy does not have the cruelty to demand...
Back to Attica, and then another rebellion. "We were at war. We were in a mental battle with these people, man!" Of the final attack by troopers, Blyden says: "Eerie was the word for it. You see the mist and gas. You say, 'Hey -what's that?' and then they are shooting all over the place. You put your hands on your head and go to the wall if you don't get shot. Guys are retching in front of you and going into convulsions. If they go into convulsions, they get shot for moving...