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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abortions. "Of course birth control is the logical way to avoid abortion. However, recent articles on the pill, reporting that it causes blood clotting and breast cancer, have scared many girls away. They're afraid of the pill, but they aren't informed about the other methods. So they use the rhythm method and get into trouble...
Birth control and family planning are obviously the best abortion preventatives. However, more important is education; people must learn how to use contraceptives and what happens when they don't. Abortion is a forbidden topic, a dirty word, because it carries with it moral implications. Sadly enough, these implications do not just include the taking of a potential life...
What makes animals cute is their confused subhumanity. I enjoy my cats most when they seem stupid and ridiculous. When one of them crawls into a bag and can't get out, I use the same laugh that white people probably had when they watched Stepin Fetchit being "spooked" in the old movies. The point is that people have preconceived ideas of what's nice about animals and other people, and are happy when they can find images that conform...
...Catalog is divided into sections, as most catalogs are. In Whole Earth they are Understanding Whole Systems, Shelter and Land Use, Industry and Craft, Communications. Community, Nomadics, and Learning. Whole Earth is a large book and opens up places you never thought of entering. The section on Understanding Whole Systems, for example, gives you a collection of things concerned with getting to know man better as a phenomenon living among and taking part in an infinite number of other phenomena. You really begin to appreciate yourself when you find out some of the ways interesting people are looking...
...however. Whole Earth Catalog is a tool. Wander through it, admire it, be sure to use it. The worlds resting in its pages are wide open for those ready for the adventure, but it will be worth nothing if it is not allowed to function as it is designed. It is a good thing: let it lead you on to better things...