¶ America
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America:
“Because of the evolutionary requirement for the integration of all men around our planet, I would like to point out what I feel is the reason why America seems, for the moment, to be an active field of creative capability. In the five and a half million known years of man’s presence on earth, with man born naked, helpless, without any information, with beautiful equipment, but ignorant, but gradually gaining in experience and gradually finding his way. Well there has been a pyramiding of such experiences and America happens to be in the midst of these waves that have gone around the world. It’s a cross-breeding world man here. And the developing world man here is beginning to export and become part of the world. There is a tendency of the crowd to be excited by the man who makes a score on the football playing field, by the man who makes the touchdown. But I feel that America has been thrown a forward pass by all of humanity. Therefore, it’s spectacular-- making the touchdown, but it’s part of the great team of all humanity. And I want to be sure not to try to develop in any way-- or to curry an unnatural ego.”
Talk 12, p. 5.
¶ Citations
- RBF at S14.5, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71
