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Imagination!, v. 1, issue 9, whole 9, June 1938
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10 discovery & application of electricity, which we have used for better lite--& electric chairs. Chemistry has yielded the means of better bleaches, better medicines--& a manufacturing of pleasing poisonous gases & swell shells that whine thru the air in a minor key & blow up people. We have learnd to construct elaborate shelters which protect us from the elements--& make it possible to rest for months with tuberculosis as a bedfellow. Yes, we have progrest--or do I take too great a liberty with the word "Progress"? "A couple 100 yrs ago", says Donald, came Democracy. Kings and monarchys became passe. That's progress. Today Democracy (if such a thing ever existed) seems to be a little passe itself. Dictatorships seem to be more or less the order of the day. Now, will Donald enlighten this glazed eyed dreamer and explain to him the differences between the Monarchist govt that flourisht "a couple 100 yrs ago" before we "progrest" to Democracy, & the present-day Dictatorships? Perhaps we can inter the genial Webster & have him change his definition of the word "Progress". I agree with D. that the world is not static. Tho, if a pun is pardond, there is much "static" emitted by many worldwellers. The world does jerk along. BUT--it is just as consistent in its backward jump as it is in its forward truck. It's the old waltz step: 2 to the left (pause), one to the right--& as long as the music lasts you stay in the ballroom... I find it difficult to "view with alarm" these imminent crossroads, the Yerdke-Wollheim ultimatum. It seems to me that humanity has been perpetually faced with crossroads. Some take the High road & some take the low-road & they all meet in Bonnie Chaos in the morning. "To dream: Ay, there's the rub!" It's not all dreams that I accept or advocate. & if Donald will take the trouble to reread my last contribution to our politico-philosophical melee he will be surprised to see that dreams are only mentioned in connexion with temporary escapes--"to relieve the monotony of mere living". The gravitation of all worthwhile & humanitarianistic motives should be, in my estimation, toward the absence of all possible compulsory allegiance to a state or any other artificial impeding structure that will in any way tell man what to say, how to salute, wht to like to believe he has--it must be the right to get along with the least possible famous quotation--is the idea & goal, if one must have gals to seek. To trade individual freedom for a sure piece of bread tomoro... No! I'm afraid Donald & his cohorts of visionarys will have to wait a long time before the world becomes so mentally numb & so lacking in all feelings of pride & selfrespect & so pale & pallid that it will consider the trade worthwhile. & in conclusion...Erick Freyer doesnt think there is a God. & his optomism relative to a great number of other people's thinking as he does is based purely upon statistics. A certain # of people will die of cancer next yr; a certain # of tetanus from firecracker burns; & a certain # of people will become Atheists--next yr. However, if not another person believed as Erick does, the purely personal satisfaction that Erick would experience would be sufficient justification for his opinions, in Erick's estimation. That 10c-drug-store-permanent-escape has aroused interested inquirys in the composing room of "Madge"--which is directly above a drugstore! ACKERMAN, amongst others, wishes to know what you ask the prescription clerk for. (It must be awful to be Notorious No.1 in the eyes of Fandamn.) Personally, I prefer that $2.49 (plus tax) escape that you also buy at drugstores. (In a bottle, brother, in case you're "awful slow to 'catch on'.") It's like a trip to Russia: You can always come back......... Erdstelulov's Dept: Wright Editor of WEIRD, writes Esperanto!
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10 discovery & application of electricity, which we have used for better lite--& electric chairs. Chemistry has yielded the means of better bleaches, better medicines--& a manufacturing of pleasing poisonous gases & swell shells that whine thru the air in a minor key & blow up people. We have learnd to construct elaborate shelters which protect us from the elements--& make it possible to rest for months with tuberculosis as a bedfellow. Yes, we have progrest--or do I take too great a liberty with the word "Progress"? "A couple 100 yrs ago", says Donald, came Democracy. Kings and monarchys became passe. That's progress. Today Democracy (if such a thing ever existed) seems to be a little passe itself. Dictatorships seem to be more or less the order of the day. Now, will Donald enlighten this glazed eyed dreamer and explain to him the differences between the Monarchist govt that flourisht "a couple 100 yrs ago" before we "progrest" to Democracy, & the present-day Dictatorships? Perhaps we can inter the genial Webster & have him change his definition of the word "Progress". I agree with D. that the world is not static. Tho, if a pun is pardond, there is much "static" emitted by many worldwellers. The world does jerk along. BUT--it is just as consistent in its backward jump as it is in its forward truck. It's the old waltz step: 2 to the left (pause), one to the right--& as long as the music lasts you stay in the ballroom... I find it difficult to "view with alarm" these imminent crossroads, the Yerdke-Wollheim ultimatum. It seems to me that humanity has been perpetually faced with crossroads. Some take the High road & some take the low-road & they all meet in Bonnie Chaos in the morning. "To dream: Ay, there's the rub!" It's not all dreams that I accept or advocate. & if Donald will take the trouble to reread my last contribution to our politico-philosophical melee he will be surprised to see that dreams are only mentioned in connexion with temporary escapes--"to relieve the monotony of mere living". The gravitation of all worthwhile & humanitarianistic motives should be, in my estimation, toward the absence of all possible compulsory allegiance to a state or any other artificial impeding structure that will in any way tell man what to say, how to salute, wht to like to believe he has--it must be the right to get along with the least possible famous quotation--is the idea & goal, if one must have gals to seek. To trade individual freedom for a sure piece of bread tomoro... No! I'm afraid Donald & his cohorts of visionarys will have to wait a long time before the world becomes so mentally numb & so lacking in all feelings of pride & selfrespect & so pale & pallid that it will consider the trade worthwhile. & in conclusion...Erick Freyer doesnt think there is a God. & his optomism relative to a great number of other people's thinking as he does is based purely upon statistics. A certain # of people will die of cancer next yr; a certain # of tetanus from firecracker burns; & a certain # of people will become Atheists--next yr. However, if not another person believed as Erick does, the purely personal satisfaction that Erick would experience would be sufficient justification for his opinions, in Erick's estimation. That 10c-drug-store-permanent-escape has aroused interested inquirys in the composing room of "Madge"--which is directly above a drugstore! ACKERMAN, amongst others, wishes to know what you ask the prescription clerk for. (It must be awful to be Notorious No.1 in the eyes of Fandamn.) Personally, I prefer that $2.49 (plus tax) escape that you also buy at drugstores. (In a bottle, brother, in case you're "awful slow to 'catch on'.") It's like a trip to Russia: You can always come back......... Erdstelulov's Dept: Wright Editor of WEIRD, writes Esperanto!
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