The Generation Gap-WHY? - Herbert W. Armstrong

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very affectionate and conside rate. But,
when a quarrel comes - when she
"steps on his toes," - when she DISpleases
him, then HE is self, and SHE
is oil/side of self. H e feels resentment,
anger, welling up with in himself
aga inst her. Now she becomes like an
enemy . " Love" turns to a fo rm of
hatred. T HAT 'S WHY SO MAN Y MAR­
RIAGES BREAK U P. The wife undergoes,
of course, the same psychological
feeli ngs.
Few know what REAL LOVE is ! To
carnal mind s, LOV E is selfish.
N ow, with th is rather brief explanation
of human nature, let's look at the
RACiA L crisis - and also the CAM P US
riots.
It is possible for a black person and
a white person to belong to the same
team, the same club, the same church.
It is possible for tbe one to feel the
other is pa rt of his empi rical sclf. As
long as that feeling exists, they may get
along well together.
But, if there is no sense of alliance
to join one of the other color as part
of SELF, then the very FACT of the
color difference sets the other off as
APA RT FROM self.' Then, unless realized
and resisted, it may become automatic
for the carnal mind to feel toward the
one of different color a prej udice - if
not hostility. At least there is a
NATURAL tendency toward pre judice.
The PULL of human nature (like a
magnet) is there.
Why Prejudice
Isn't it, however, a little silly? I am
white. But a N egro is J UST AS H UMAN
AS I. Why, therefore should I feel
preju dice? No valid reason. It is just
the PU LL of human nature in that
direc tion.
To some extent, it is like instinct
affects the AN IM AL brain . But the dumb
anima l does not have that HIGH ER mind
- tha t OBJ ECTIVE mind power - to
know - to realize - to recogn ize that
the impulse is right or wro ng - or to
reason to a decision, and then to enforce
the power of WI LL to carry out
the decision .
The dwnb bru te simply, without
reason, yields to the impu lse of instinct.
Some hum ans let thei r high er objective
"fbe PLAIN TRUTH
minds virtually go to sleep on them,
and allow their subjective minds to
yield to the IM P UL SE - to the PU LL
of human nature.
The highest th ing in MAN is this
higher MI N D power to realize - to
U N DERSTAN D - to recognize wron g
from right - to RESTRAIN SELF from
obeying the wrong pull. But it is per ­
haps easier to be ment ally lazy than to
be lazy physically I
So what have we, now ?
W e have HUMAN NATURE - the
powder keg - the tinderbox. A certain
"fuse" may, if not gua rded against,
ignite it into inflamed emotional hatred
and VIOL EN T ACT iON.
H uman nature is the UNDERLYING
cause of the stri fe, the revolt, the violence.
But what has TRIGGERED it ? W hat
was the fuse that ignited the spa rk,
and sent it violently into destructive
action?
Pl anned Violence
In some instances it may have been
a circumstance - or combination of
circumstances happening simultaneously,
rather than a PLAN N ED, DELIBERATEL Y
P ROVOKE D UPR ISING . One version I
read of the Watts riot (Los Aog eles)
indicated that.
Yet, even there, deli berately planned
pro paganda, inflamm atory influences,
had stirred up emotions - READY to
burst into mob violence when set off by
a certain spark.
But in most cases I can tell you
definitely that these riots and student
uprisings have been deliberately
P LAN N ED, intent ionally PROVOKED, well
O RGAN IZED.
I know , too, that it has become somewhat
normal to cry "Communist" as
a d irty epithet - a non-specific accusation
against any person or gro up one
doesn't like.
But when I say "Communist" in th is
case I mean, specifically, just that. T he
Communist movement operates in ways
most people do not recogn ize. It is
well organized and efficient. It injects
trained Communists into many movement
s and societies - themselves not
Communist - and subtly influences
them into moves and actions that
secretly are Communist-planned and
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directed. Yet the officers, and most
members of such organizations are not,
themselves, Comm unist and do not
realize they are being used.
Today Communists appear on college
and un iversity campuses, under the
gu ise of "the N ew Leftist Movement."
The student revolt movement, exploding
on so many campuses into violence,
is actually a carefully planned, and
exper tly organ ized effort to OVERT H ROW
T H E GOVERN ME NTS O F NAT ION S !
Communists have moved in this same
way to inflame Negroes with emotio nal
resentment against whites. Th e propaganda
has been well planned. They
keep remind ing N egroes of every possible
"injustice" - fan the flames of
discontent - cause N egroes to feel
resentment, bitterness, hatred.
Racism Encouraged
Negroes generally read certain Negro
newspapers and magazines. N aturally
these are slanted to serve the Negro
interest. This very fact alone implies
race consciousness - and race conciousness,
due to the pu ll of human nature,
tend s naturally to create and increase
racial prejudice. I do not say, or believe,
that all these N egro newspapers
and magazines are Communist directed.
But Communists do make every effort
to influence these molders of Negro
op inion.
T he general run of newspapers and
magazines, read by whites and nonwhites
alike, are 110t excluJit'ely
" W H ITE" papers and magazines in the
manner that Negro publications are
slanted in favor of the one race. Negro
newspapers and magazines tend to be
anti-white by their very nature, in a
manner that general circulation newspapers
and magazines are not anti­
Negro. And the Negro p ublications,
whether intentionally or not, tend to
create race feeling, if they do not deliberately
inflame anti-white feeling into
definite hatred .
T here also are many radio stations
over the Un ited States whose programming
is definitely N egro. So far as I
know, these do not d irectly promote
anti-whi te feeling. But the very fact
that progr amming IS Negro-slanted
automatically tends to create race con-