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A CONSIDERATION PATRICIA H. KOTYK Recently, I have observed a bewildering event on the part of my American contemporaries. We seem to have lost touch with a primordial experience, expressed more than two thousand years ago by a wise philosopher. He was regarded as a "sophist" — a man whose purpose in life was to instruct others in the 'gift of gab' and in the art of making their point 'clear', at the expense of the truth his name was Socrates. Athenians feared his language which illuminated only reality, and in their terror of the 'real' of which he spoke, condemned him to death. He accepted his sentence and faced demise as a means of encountering ultimate truth in an after-life. The contemporaries to which I refer appear to be doing the same, in a figurative manner, to the truth which shines, now and then, through that grey mass of lies they have constructed solely out of fear. When an unusually brave individual suggests a benevolent gesture, all seem to shudder as though they felt that they might be contaminated by participating in an act of sheer goodness! Upon one occassion, I have objectively witnessed such an event. A particular woman, a member of U.N.W.L. , offered to plan, with the assistance and consent of her branch, a special fund for deserving, underprivileged students in several poverty-stricken areas of the United States. Her comrades immediately rebuked and virtually condemned her into silence for impudently suggesting that they associate with such "shabby, bug-ridden creeps". In conclusion, this group collected a fairly large fund to be given to a few paternally-wealthy foreign students, to assist them in their studies. I understand these very 'students' have hastened to obediently commit this educational fund to the aforementioned cause — the studies involved in auto mechanics. You see, little sports cars are very interesting educational pursuits — especially when these students decided they needed a new intellectual horizon to transverse — that is, in their new cars. My objection lies in the following: the truth proposed by that unfortunate 'sophist' was deliberately blurred by persons who actually did fear her words. They, claiming to 'know better', followed their status- seeking instincts, as opposed to facing one of a multitude of truths — that being, that there is ugliness, poverty and a general bad amid the good, the beautiful and the right. The former are just as real as the latter truths: they are opposites arising from one another and never to be reconciled to each other. They cannot be ignored; yet, they must be sought out, clarified and pursued as knowledge to be gained, so that we may face other ultimate truths. The latter include goodness, beauty and virtue. In solving ignorance of one, knowledge of the other is logically sure to follow. A tw o-color paper cutting — by Vera Wowk Therefore, I propose this morally justifiable dilemma to you as well: an enigma to be untangled by "right Action" and, inevitably, self-knowledge. Yes, that, too, is a product of truth-searching. It is a benefit for each person who enters into such an experience: the end- result is always knowledge of oneself. I believe it was Socrates himself who was inspired by those very sacred words, inscribed on the portals of the temple at Delphi: "know thyself" ... And, I believe it was that very inscription that urged him to devote his entire life to searching for the truth. NOTE Branch 72 of the U.N.W.L.A. is having their galadinner-dance weekend at Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson, New York on September 27th and 28th, 1975. This year the theme is the Bicentennial: Reservations must be made early as this popular event is quickly sold out. The charge of $30. per person covers a weekend at the lovely Soyuzivka and includes a champagne cocktail hour, dinner and dance on Saturday and breakfast and dinner on Sunday. Checks and requests for reservations should be sent to the Chairlady of the dance, Mrs. Mary Lesawyer, 2643 Deer Path, Scotch Plains, New Jersey 07076. 22 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЛИПЕНЬ— СЕРПЕНЬ 1975 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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