Dear David,

"No one has the right to exhort writers to write
on certain subjects or take up particular moral
stanzas. But if they love their art, we can expect
them to be on the side of life rather than death, on
the side of being, rather than non-being, to prefer the
beauty of this planet to its desecration, and to use
fiction to reveal truths.

We need above all to fall in love with this planet, which,
as far as we know, is the only one carefully balanced to
sustain human life without assistance from somewhere else.

In the most destructive age in history, the word "creative"
is more mindlessly bandied about than ever before; a fact we
need to ponder as writers. The truth is that human beings
came into a world prepared for them. If we blow it up, we
cannot hope to put it together again.

We cannot "create" something out of nothing even the
greatest artist did not invent colour, nor the greatest
musician sound, nor the greatest writer speech. All we can do
is discover, imitate, rearrange-or-destroy. Our worst
illusion is that we might return to the state of primitive man.
But he did not have polluted soil, poisoned streams,
irradiated game and vegetable foods."
(Dorothy Green).

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Dear Mr Opinion, Foxy, and whoever cares to join in (it’s open house for all !),

.

Mr Opinion asked :

« You don't by any chance have a video of them doing 'Kumbaya' for Foxy? »
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Not the same artists I’m afraid, but of that irreplaceable, heavenly voice of Joan Baez performing live in Barcelona on November 18, 1977 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=tVul_pwHWRk&feature=emb_logo

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ALTRAV,

I do not wish you anything bad.

On the contrary. I pray for you.

Take care.

Dear Foxy,

«hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of years have
passed already while mankind persists in chopping
up and carving human bodies in continuous carnage...»

And Dear Saltpetre,

«Surely there's a better way than war to bring the whole human population 'into the light' - or must it take another one, two, three million years of 'evolution'?»

Repeating my response on page 4:

This world is not meant to evolve and become a peaceful place, this is not it's purpose - rather, this world can be likened to a school.

We use this world to study and grow, then we graduate and leave and new, younger and uneducated students come in our place to learn more or less the same lessons. The school keeps standing, it does not evolve (or if you like to be more precise, it goes through cycles according to the school years/terms) - the students evolve and that is what counts!

Had schools evolved into universities, then who would be teaching the younger generation of souls entering this world?

Banjo Paterson,

Thanks. Foxy will be over the moon.

And please feel free to upload more Joan Baez.

Hi David,

Wow, I've always found Social Alternatives worth checking out. My wife was a good friend of Vicki Crowley's, she introduced us to the concept of 'culturalism'.

Hi Foxy,

Yes, Kevin Gilbert was certainly one of a kind. We stayed with him up around Taree in about 1974 for a couple of nights, he was very kind to us. If anybody can get hold of his book, "Because A White Man'll Never Do It" (it came out in 1974 I think), it's well worth reading. Nothing much before or since like it. We need many more Kevin Gilberts now.

Joe