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Where a lot of women are not
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Jus Crusin’
By Laura Thompson
A Woman’s place is
anywhere she wants to be!!
According to Woman Motorist,
when the automobile was coming
of age in the late 1800’s, most
women were responding to the
mandate —“a woman’s place is in
the home.” One woman, however,
not only took care of her home and
five children, but worked hand in
hand with her husband, cheering
him on to become one of
automotive history’s premier
masterminds.
Since the 1800’s women have
the great gifts to humanity that Eli
Siegel's mighty thought can provide;
ana no one should have to wait
another day to know this.
Alexander Pope once wrote of Sir
Isaac Newton this passionate iambic
pentameter line: “God said. Let
Newton be! and all was light.”
Pope’s opinion has been agreed
with by generations of scientists.
My opinion and others' opinion of
Eli Siegel is like that of Pope about
Newton: he has brought the light of
science to the darkest territory m the
human self and society through his
luminous logic.
School Day Changes For
SA1SD Middle,High
School Students
Middle and High school students in
the San Antonio Independent School
District
will start then school day a little later
this year than in the past. -
The SAISD Board of Education on
Aug. 2 approved new starting and
ending times for classes at the
District's secondary schools. '
Beginning the first day ofachool this
Monday, classes will run from 8:30
a.m. to 3:30p.m. for middle schools,
and from 8:43 to 3:43 p.m. for high
schools.
The school day for elementary stu-
dents was not changed. SAISD el-
ementary students will go to school
from 8 sum. to 3 p.m , the same as last
year.
Two SAISD campuses will follow a
different schedule because of special
circumstances. Both Fox Tech High
School and Herff Elementary School
will hold classes from 8:13 a.m. to
3:15 p.m.
All after-school and extracurricular
programs, such as the After-School
Challenge Program, will continue
this school year.
Bus routes for middle and high school
students will remain the same, al-
though the pick-up times will change.
Information about the new bus
schedules is available at the schools.
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THE STUDY OF AESTHETIC
REALISM CAN END RACISM!
by Donna Lamb, Aesthetic Realism Consultant
One of the
things 1 love
most in this
world is the
way Aes-
thetic Real-
ism, found-
ed by the
great Ame-
r i c a n
philosopher
Eli Siegel, sees the subject of
racism Mr. Siegel—-who was
utterly, passionately for justice to
people in every way—explained
centrally the cause of racism, mak-
ing it possible at last for it to end!
This, 1 believe, is shown resplen-
dency in the following article by Dr.
Arnold Perey, who is on the faculty
of the Aesthetic Realism Founda-
tion where he teaches in consulta-
tions as well as the Aesthetic Real-
ism and Anthropology course, and is
an instructor in the workshop for
teachers. The Aesthetic Realism of
Eli Siegel As Teaching Method. His
published articles include “A New
Perspective for American Anthro-
pology,” and “The Real Opposition
to Racism.”
Aesthetic Realism: the
Solution to Racism
By Arnold Perey
Today there are more fury and
despair than ever about racism.
People feel it cannot be eradicated
from the way persons see one
another. As an anthropologist, I am
proud to say that Eli Siegel, whom I
see as the most important man of
thought and social scientist, under-
stood the cause of racism. He him-
self was completely without preju-
dice. And, as I know personally, the
education he foundedenables preju-
dice within people to stop!
1 he basis of Aesthetic Realism is
scientifically new. In no other
source - not Hegel, Kant, nor
Freud, nor any other—is there the
understanding of self accurate and
deep enough to stop racism. Aes-
thetic Realism has this understand-
ing "Man’s deepest desire," Eli
Siegel explains, “nis largest desire,
is to like the world on an honest or
accurate basis.” This principle is
true about people of every race,
including the Native American peo-
ple 1 F cd with in central Nevada
and the Melanesian people I lived
w ith in Papua New Guinea.
But we have another desire op
posing oui hope to like the world:
the desire to nave contempt And
contempt—the “disposition in every
person to think he will be for him-
self making less of the outside
world*’—is the fundamental cause
of all cruelty, today and m any time
(see Eli Siegel’s book Self and
World). Evidence is throughout liter-
ature—from the older writing, like
Montaigne's description of war in
the Amazon, “Of Cannibals”
(1580), to the present day.
What Kacismis
Racism is contempt for the world
that takes the form of contempt for
persons different from oneself. Mr.
Siegel explains, in The Right of
Aesthetic Realism to Be Known: ,
“The reluctance to give meaning
to the possible thoughts of others is
one or the great victories of con-
tempt and therefore one of the great
disasters of man...Contempt is pres-
ent wherever some people know
other people who are different from
themselves. Contempt is in the race
question, is in the nationality ques-
tion,...is in the youth and age ques-
tion, is in the parents and children
question. As soon as we see that
other human beings are placed dif-
ferently from ourselves, contempt
does what it can to include them.’
The contempt for “human beings
...placed differently from ourselves”
has impelled people without their
being able to identify it or combat it,
since ancient times. Because of Eli
Siegel we can now understand this.
Anthropologists have seen contempt
;ge
ithr
without
understanding what it
day
—as Ashley
Montagu
writes: “Many
tribes call
themselves by
names which
mean in effect
’we-are-men,’
implying that
all others are
not.”
Too much,
Arnold Perey the family to-
is still tribal. My family saw it-
self, as we looked out of our
windows in Mt. Vernon, NY, as
superior to the neighbors. My unjust
and foolish disparagement of all
people took in those of other races,
whom I assumed I was superior to
without knowing them at all.
How Prejudice Ends
In college, I studied many cultures
— India, Africa, Australia, the Ame-
ricas, Asia, ancient Europe, with
some of America's noted scholars. I
learned many important facts, but I
had not yet learned the most crucial
ones. Then I met Aesthetic Realism,
in August 1968. Racism,
which I had condemned, I
still knew had not been
eradicated in me. i was
ashamed of this but felt
nothing could ever be done
N about it. Then, in classes
I taught by Eli Siegel my
■ own contempt was clearly
described to me and kindly
criticized; and because I
learned, with detail, that
the purpose of the human
mind —my mind—is to be
just to the world, my way of
seeing people changed.
And as it aid, I saw the
prejudice in me —as to
race, religion, accent, and
more—fade away, as real
respect took its place!
Art and Equality
Early in my study, I brought to an
Aesthetic Realism class a number of
richly carved arrow shafts I’d gotten
that year in Papua New Guinea. I
wanted to leam about them from
Mr. Siegel. He said, “The questions
to ask about these arrows are the
questions to be asked about art any-
where. What did the workman or
artist have in mind?” For die first
time in my anthropological studies I
was being asked to consider with re-
spect the thoughts of a tribesman as
if they were like my own! “The
deepest motives of a people are in
their art, or what is nearest to art,”
he explained.
Looking at an arrow, he pointed
out: “There is drama: part is smooth
and part is rough. . . Something intri-
cate changes into something
smoother. On the rough part many
things occur with difference and
sameness.” For example, see Arrow
Shaft “A”: Three small, very differ-
ent shapes above each other make
up one triangle pointing downward.
And they are within an outline
which has the same triangular
shape. This is a beautiful study in
sameness and difference, many and
one, rough and smooth, within and
without—opposites that all things
have in common, including people!
This principle stated by Mr.
Siegel, “All beauty is a making one
of opposites, and the making one of
oppmites is what we are going after
iff ourselves, ” is true for all cultures.
It was my honor to discuss that fact
in my doctoral thesis, “Oksapmin So-
ciety and World View,” for
Columbia University, with Aesthetic
Realism as its stated basis and
Margaret Mead as my thesis advisor.
Mr. Siegel was showing that the
artists/workmen of Oksapmin were
representing on these tnin arrow
shafts the philosophic structure of
the world: the permanent opposites.
My respect for the people soared.
Asked Eli Siegel, with kind humor,
“Mr. Perey, do you believe the
world can change on a stick?” I was
learning that every human being has
the world in his or her mind.
The Equality of All People
In 1923 the Modern Quarterly
published Eli Siegel's passionately
reasoned “The Equality of Man.
He wrote, “Men nave not had an
equal chance to be actively power-
ful as they might be. And if they had
been given an equal chance to use
all the powers they had at birth, they
would be equal.” And he states, “It
is my business to go on showing it
to be so.” This is what he was show-
ing, faithful to his purpose, decades
later when he asked me, for ex-
ample, “What does a reader in an-
thropology in the British Museum
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have in common with what he is
reading about?”
Eli Siegel had charm, ease, and
power when he spoke about race.
He made superiority look as ugly as
it is—and he gave justice style.
As a social scientist I say that Eli
Siegel has shown definitively and
with enormous scientific scholarship
the equality of all people. Statistics
that are used to say anything else are
flimsy, unjust fakes.
The Most Urgent Knowledge
The Aesthetic Realism Foundation
teaches what people most urgently
need. “Racism won't be effectively
done away with unless it is replaced
with something that has terrific
power,” writes Ellen Reiss, the
Class Chairman of Aesthetic Real-
ism. She writes in The Right Of:
“What needs to replace it is not
the feeling that the difference of
another person is somehow toler-
able. What is necessary is the seeing
and feeling that the relation of same-
ness and difference between our-
selves and that other person is beau-
tiful....It is possible for millions of
men, women, and children to have
an emotion about race that is like an
art emotion. And it is necessary.”
The Press Boycott
The reason people are in agony
about racial inequality, and so much
more that could have changed
decades ago, is this: persons on the
press have blocked America's
access to Aesthetic Realism—with
the exception of journals like this,
which you are reading now.
Because press persons can't be
superior to the knowledge of Eli
Siegel, and because he stands for a
democracy and respect for people
that many press individuals fear,
they have tried to do away with that
which makes their egos so uncom-
fortable principally by boycotting
it. The press has embodied hate of
what is new and kind long before
this time. In the 19th century, forex-
ample, according to his biographer
S.J. Holmes, Louis Pasteur endured
“rabid newspaper attacks” while he
was trying to save lives. Today,
Pasteur is studied in every college.
The Study that Humanity Needs
There are classes, consultations,
public seminars, and dramatic pre-
sentations at the not-for-profit Aes-
thetic Realism Foundation—141
Greene St., NYC 10012; website:
www.AestheticRealism.org where
you can leam more. Aesthetic Real-
ism consultations—in which a
person speaks with three consult-
ants—are based on the Aesthetic
Realism lessons Mr. Siegel gave for
almost 40 years, and through them
people feel what is felt nowhere
else: truly and deeply compre-
hended. Consultations are given by
telephone across the country and
abroad.
I love Aesthetic Realism for
bringing to my mind a wideness I
would not have had, a respect for
people whose skin tones differ from
mine The end of racism is one of
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