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Obscenity

I Did so enjoy G. W. Calder's informative and imaginative article, plonked squarely in the centre of Salient at benefits a man whose ideas are 10 normal and undeviating and 10 obviously Right. What a cunning disguise for yet another attack on Masketade" (sic, or as they say in your columns, sick) who could have seen the logical connection between swear words and what (anonymous) psychologists say about them, and that sick publication "Maskerade" (sic) but a man of imagination like C. W. Calder? I would love to know exactly how "obscenity . . . deadens perception" apart from) Definitely limiting it, of course. But it is not for us lesser products of a "sick university society" to know these revealed truths. Prophets of the rank of G. W. Calder (he must be a prophet because I've never heard of him) may tell us there things for our own good but it is not our place to demand or even expect a rational explanation. It is so and so be it. Let not this prophet be without honour in his own stomping ground!

'New Fascism'

ISympathise with Mr Padamao in his ingenious (if somewhat ingenuous defence of African fascism.

If he feels humiliated by my comparisons of some African states with Nazi Germany, his feelings will be the same as those of, say, a German Jew in exile.

The Jew did not feel personal guilt for German excesses, but insofar as there remained any feeling for his home country, he felt humiliated.

Mr Padamao should note that I attack only regimes and rulers — together with those who "go along" with the regimes.

Any attack by on ethnic or racial groupings is imagined solely by Mr Padameo — my subject was placed in Africa, and it is not my fault if colour differences are noticed in an immediate defensive reaction.

Finally, the theme of my article was fascism. I did not use the word as so many our loose-thinking liberals do today, as a general term of dislike, but in a particular sense; that of a certain rather oppressive political system.

My criteria were: if it talks like a fascist, acts like a fascist, kills like a fascist—it may well be a fascist—regardless of colour.

Demos

Gordon Findiay's letter on the Demonstrations Co-ordinating Committee reveals an ignorance of a large number of political facts, the most important of which is the name of the organisation which he is attaching. An organisation called the Political Action Co-ordinating Croup does exist, and its objectives include the co-ordinating of all forms of political activity, including demonstrations, but also including teach-ins, public meetings, publicity campaigns and most other mediums of political communication and protest. The Group has in fact just organised a teach-in on Security Intelligence, and will be making submissions to the Statutes Revision Committee on the new Bill. Before the group was set up, people like Mr Findlay were in the position where, if they disliked some particular act of the Government, all they could do was improvise a usually rather badly organised demonstration; the existence of the Co-ordinating Group not only makes it possible to prepare demonstrations will in advance and so organise them properly, by using various people's skills and establishing reasonable communications, but also to protest by some other way than a demonstration where this is considered appropriate. That it can make a choice such as this between different forms of protest means, of course, that the group does Not endorse the view "and demonstration it a flood demonstration": It believes that only a few issues are worth demonstrating over, and that when demonstrations are arranged on such issues they should be well-organised.

There is some sort of consensus on campus That protests on a wide range of issues against the Government are justified, as anybody can see for himself if he observes the faces that recur over several demonstrations. It is in the interest of the people who share in this consensus that their protest activities be organised rather than disorganised. If Gordon Findlay thinks the public support the kind of march that results when Exec tries to organise one, he is welcome to his opinion. And if he honestly believe — which I doubt — that the group will march "no matter what the principle, no matter what the cause", let him try to organise a march in favour of the Vietnam war, or apartheid, and see how much group support he gets.

Sartorial

Philosophers once concerned themselves with debating the spatial relationships between angels and pin-heads. In the present context of earthly overcrowding, the egg-heads might as profitably apply themselves to considering the well known "Sartorial Paradox".

As stated by Sartorius it reads: Twenty-two wogs will be found to fit snugly into the pocket of one of God's Own Countrymen.

A word of explanation:

In your Salient 11 it was stated that the average New Zealander's annual income was $US1763, while that of the average Indian (or wog) was a mere $US79.

So?

Where does Catch-22 come into this?

The scientific climate of our time demands a lest of the Sartorial Paradox, simply performed by bringing together wogs and kiwis in the ratio of 22 : 1, inserting the former into the pockets of the latter, until the Paradox be proved or disproved.

Still more profitable to provide the wogs with pockets in which they may stuff themselves to their heart's content.

There can be but one answer to this of course: 1% AID.