¶ Population Sequence
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Population Sequence:
"begin to look like boys and boys and girls wear the same clothes. This may be part of a discouraging process in the idea of producing more babies.
"We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e., that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.
“Central to such readjustment will be the concept that man is not alone the physical machine he appears to be. He is not merely the food he consumes, the water he drinks, or the air he breathes. His physical processing is only an automated aspect of a total human experience which transcends the physical. As a knot in a series of spliced ropes of manila, cotton, nylon, etc., may be progressively slipped through all the material changes of thickness and texture along the length yet remain an identifiable pattern configuration, so man is an abstract pattern integrity which is sustained through all the physical changes and processing.”
¶ Citations
- THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb’67
