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The memories of a Golden Age -- the Garden of Eden -- the Age of the Yellow Ancestor -- were genuine expressions of civilization and its discontents. Harking back to societies where women and men were more free with each other; where there was more singing and dancing; where there were no serfs and priests and kings.
Projected into future time in Christian culture, this dream of the Millennium became the soil of many heresies. It is a dream handed down to our own time -- of ecological balance, classless society, social and economic freedom. It is actually one of the possibilities open to us. To those who stubbornly argue "it's against human nature," we can only patiently reply that you must know your own nature before you can say this. Those who have gone into their own natures deeply have, for several thousand years now, been reporting that we have nothing to fear if we are willing to train ourselves, to open up, explore and grow.
- Earth House Hold, by Gary Snyder, 1968, New Directions Pub.
(I put this on to contrast the insight & potential with the nonsense & lies being told by bush on "live" tv right now.)
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