So much happens these days,
the triple evolutions called Cybernetics, Human rights, Weaponry
I guess much happen happened on the month has happened on the century
And I think we have to call upon not politicians these days but observers,
Anthropologists, Sociologists, Psychologists. Doctor Margaret Mead; all three of these.
the coming of age,
in somewhere all the box are follows, new guinea
male or female
Doctor, where do we begin?
We're told that we have so much to offer to underdeveloped countries.
We speak of primitive societies in a very patronising way, don't we?
Well, some of us do, but in general we call them developing or emerging nations today,
which is not as patronising because it is recognising not where they've been but where they're going.
And, certainly people all over the world who've been exposed to, during and since World War II,
to the new possibilities that are offered by the whole scientific revolution, want what we have.
They don't want their children to die, they want themselves to be able to live longer,
they want all the new possibilities of the modern world.
So when we say WE, it's because we identify ourselves with the special products of our own type of civilisation.
Something we have, because there aren't things we haven't got that they have, wouldn't you say?
Well, but it doesn't make very much sense to say we don't have what they have, I mean
we don't have the simplicity of living at the dawn of the world, and we'll never...
it's like going back and trying to regain lost innocence.
Uh, we would like to have some of the things of which they have in earlier form,
uhm, just as they have an earlier form of technology,
we now have a later form of technology which is far better.
Now, we haven't yet later forms of human community that are as much better as our techological forms.
But nevertheless, to live in the society where you regard a hundred and eighty million people as fellow citizens,
and to hurt or kill one of them is uhm, regarded as doing something to your own, is great improvement
to living in a society where there are a hundred and eighty people that you regard as human beings,
and you regard the rest of it, the whole rest of every human being you've ever met as nothing.
Tanta coisa acontece nos dias de hoje,
o trio de evoluções chamadas Cibernética, Direitos Humanos, Armamento
Eu acho que nesse mês aconteceu mais do que aconteceu no século
E eu acho que nós temos de recorrer não aos políticos, hoje em dia, mas aos observadores,
Antropólogos, sociólogos, psicólogos. Dra. Margaret Mead é esses três.