¶ Politica: Accessory After the Fact
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Politica: Accessory After the Fact:
“Politica exists and will always exist-- but it must always be an accessory after the fact… an accessory after the fact of whatever the circumstances may be. So if you change the environment, the circumstances change and politics will have to have new problems. Politics can’t really begin until you have a plow at hand, or a pick-axe at hand. They can’t create that; and once you do have tools at hand, then you use them. And that becomes part of the circumstances. I’m not saying there isn’t going to be political action, but it must be an accessory after the fact. So I can see that we can get the political mood, the mood of man, to simply demand that their political parties on both sides merely yield in a direction that neither of them ever thought of before. The one will not be yielding to the other man’s policy at all. He’ll be yielding to the computer. And I find that anybody can yield to the computers. He can’t lose face by yielding to a machine.”
¶ Citations
- transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A, p.10; Bear Island, 12 Aug’70
