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Is the Macarena a folk dance?

nik

nbrown@cs.ucla.edu


~ the dnc project

http://www.websciences.org/dnc/

dance, networks, computing


	It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man.  A group
can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a
factory is cheaper and more uniform.  When our food and clothing and
housing all are born in the complication of mass production,  mass
method is bound to get into our thinking.  In our time mass or
collective production has entered our economics,  our politics,  and
even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea
collective for the idea god.  This in my time is the danger.

     	And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have
declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. 
By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and
stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free roving mind is being
pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.  It is a sad suicidal course our
species seems to have taken.

     	And this I believe:  that the free, exploring mind of the
individual humans the most valuable thing in the world.  And this I
would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it
wishes, undirected.  And this I must fight against: any idea, religion,
or government which limits and destroys the individual.  This is what I
am and what I am about.  I can understand why a system built on a
pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is the one thing
which can by inspection destroy such a system.  Surely I can understand
this, and I hate it and will fight against it to preserve the one thing
that separates us from uncreative beasts.


-John Steinbeck from East of Eden