They Huey P. Newton Reader

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men!, become; lest, uncler the unremitting pressures of finitud;one
fall prey to memory, to nosto" to that hated "hope" from which the
Creeks ran.
1£ existentialism agrees on anything (and it docs), it is that man, as
we thought we knew him, has disappeared. It is man that makes a hole
in reality when his traditional values and identity have been abrogated.
When "moral man" disappears or is wiped out by great events, then
the atavist surviving projects his sense of nothingness onto reality and
claims that it has vanished or become a hopeless jumble of meaninglessness.
This Mass for our century is given its most downright version by the
author of that doomsday book of the everyday, Being and Nothingness:
Freedom in its foundation coincides with the nothingness which
is at the heart of man. Human-reality is free because it is not enough.
It is free because it is perpetually wrenched away from itself and
because it has been separated by a nothingness from what it is and
from what it will be .... Man is free because he is not himselfbut presence
to himself. The being which is what it is can not be free. Freedom
is precisely the nothingness which is made-to-be at the heart
of man and which forces human-reality to make itself instead of to
be .... Freedom is not a being; it's the being of man-i.e., his nothingness
of being.
This is the obligatory and most spectacular of all deductions: man
is wholly and forever free. Camus sees "an absurd world where even
the moles dare to hope.)) The wound in the idea of the conscience and
of the world caused by the death of the idea of God has been suppurating
now for three generations.
An ominous new euphemism-behavior modification-provides a
fascinating example of how the superindustrial state, operating on the
worldview of the last century, attempts to manipulate the mind-brain
(exclusive of the body and the environment) in order to "socialize" modern-day
Americans.
Inspired, perhaps, by the Pentagon Papers, someone in the bureaucracy
of the federal government has smuggled out a Xeroxed nightmare:
a ninety-two-page monograph whose official title is "Development and
Legal Regulation of Coercive Behavior Modification Techniques with