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     To  some,    liberation   is   freedom   from   human
restrictions.   To  others,   it is to be  achieved by the
possession of adequate things,  information understanding,
techniques,   resources,   etc.    Others seek  to achieve
liberation through  inattention to the  reality  of  human
finitude;   via collusion they for a time cause the nature
of reality to be other than it is---and so  they  initiate
the  process  by  which  they cease to  live.    Those who
attempt to deal with finitude through denial cease to live
and merely metabolize.

     Liberal arts colleges have presumed to assist in  the
liberation  of the youth they ostensibly serve.   Yet,  as
participants in  the human condition those  who  make  the
determinative political decisions in liberal arts colleges
make  the error of encouraging liberation through the  use
of  techniques  which  seek to  transcend  human  finitude
through the manipulation of objects, relationships,  self-
images,   ensymbolments,   and transcendent insights.   In
recognition of human finitude techniques are  developed to
which they  can not acknowledge honestly.   The professors
have  been  trained  in  universities  dedicated  to   the
transcendence of human finitude through  the  accumulation
of  knowledge   and techniques of manipulation.   Thus the
professors  are not free to deal honestly  with  finitude,
and  so participate in  self-defeating techniques to  deny
its reality in the lives of real students.

     Liberal  arts  colleges  whose  professors  can   not
honestly   deal  with  their  own  finitude  are  impotent
institutions.   They can not liberate their students.   If
they are to be helpful to their creaturely students,  they
must  first  honestly  acknowledge  their  own  creaturely
nature, and accept the liberation which comes to those who
accept  the nature of reality and honestly describe it  in
humanistic,   scientific,  and prophetic dialogue.    Once
finitude is  accepted,   there  may  be  a  dedication  to
openness and the beginning of mutual awareness by self and
other  of  each other and of reality,  leading to a mutual
understanding  of  self  and other within the  context  of
finitude.   This way begins a liberation from debilitating
collusions which enslave finite creatures.

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