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     It   is  difficult  to  distinguish  between  natural
consequences which are inevitable within all  societies---
and  human  consequences  which  are  a  function  of  the
traditions,    conventions,    states   of   consciousness
collusions,   and  other  characteristics of  a particular
society.  The proper purpose of education within a society
is to facilitate  the  development of mutual awareness and
mutual  understandings  of  the  nature  of  reality   ---
including the nature of man,  society, knowledge,  and the
natural cosmos.   Thus educators must deal  with what  are
perceived  as the natural consequences of various possible
decisions and actions.

     The long term viability of a society depends upon  it
being  free  of  debilitating  collusions---regarding  the
nature of reality and the natural consequences which  flow
from  human decisions and actions because of the nature of
reality. How are persons of wisdom to transcend the narrow
perspective of  their  own  society---without becoming the
victims of the narrow perspective of society? Rationalists
and arationalists; capitalists and communists; militarists
and pacifists;  swingers  and moralists:   how are they to
profit from each other's experiences, mutual awareness and
mutual understanding ---  without  becoming the victims of
what  enslaves  the  other.   All  must  come  to  a  more
comprehensive  mutual  awareness and understanding of  the
natural consequences of  being  human and of participating
in decisions and actions about dealing with finitude.

     Wise  decisions and actions will be possible only  in
fail-safe contexts within which all seek to understand and
facilitate the positive contributions which others seek to
offer. Any preoccupation with  the  knowledge  of good and
evil  will  generate  alienation which  will  inhibit  the
dialogue which is essential  to mutual enlightenment. Such
a state of consciousness  will tend to cause the course of
human events  to be dominated by technocrats playing games
with  increasingly  sophisticated  theories,    equipment,
power, and associated dangers.  The way out of the natural
consequences of that state of consciousness is not a fail-
safe  technique  (for none exists)  but   fail-safe  human
states of consciousness and value systems.

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