Growth is Good

You must each grow up to an ordinary level equal to Life’s present maturity, as reflected in its latest generation.  Instead of speaking for D-Force through automatic resistance to the following generation’s changes in attitudes, standards and behavior, you must See that Life has its own continuing higher morality that is:  Growth is good, stagnation, bad.

Ordinary criticism of life is like examining one piece of a jigsaw puzzle, and deciding it to be without beauty, form or function.  Its form may appear asymmetrical and ungainly, and its colors may seem unsatisfying, even in conflict with themselves.  But once the piece is properly positioned and is seen in the total context of the completed picture, no such criticism is valid.

I suspect that a fuller understanding of the relative nature of Life’s unfolding triads would rearrange one’s present notions of pride and shame.  May I offer this observation:  A lion does not hunt worms.

There is a certain unrecognized aspect to Man’s repetitive daydreams; they either seem to concern things that he has never done, or else involve things indeed done, but in an unsatisfactory fashion.  Now, where to start?

Women have been driven to ordinarily identify themselves primarily through men’s reactions to them. Such a conception of one’s self by an externally forced outline should be abandoned like last year’s fashion.  (Men have a similar problem, but it’s so intertwined with all their other ills that I just don’t feel like getting into it right now.)

J.