Michael:
cybernetics
produces
confusion
Cybernetics is responsible
for an era of tense
apprehension in the United
States according to social
psychologist Donald N.
Michael.
Society is essentially to
blame for this apprehension,
according to Michael, because
it isn't sure of the functions of
cybernation, or the increased
use of machines and
computers, and doesn't know
whether to welcome or repress
it.
Cybernetic alienation occurs
because of man's need to
experience reality. He then
creats a mythology to establish
it firmlv in mind.
Michael, on campus to
lecture during the World in
Revolution Conference, is
currently a professor of
psychology at the University of
Michigan.
"Alienation becomes a
problem when our skills in
questioning begin to
undermine our mythology,
leaving a void," added Michael.'
America's cities and their
forms of government were
cited by the psychologist as
areas that are incapable of
handling the problems of the
future.
Michael feels that present
forms of city government will
become increasingly
inadequate as cities merge to
form megalopolis.
Describing New York City
as a form of custodial
government he added, it is a
perfect example of a city
barely able to provide
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face-to-face fighting."
Me added, that it is easier to
forget that you are killing
people when you don't
actually watch them die.
Though many people get
frustrated, there are ways to
cope with the system and
change it, he said. But, there is
no pat answer, he added.
"You must go out and do
plodding things that really have
an effect," Goodell said, "this
involves communicating with
people without turning them
off."
He continued that teach-ins
and educational
experiences would probably
have more eftect than activist
demonstrations. The latest
Gallup poll shows that 73 per
cent of the American people
now favor setting a date to get
out of Vietnam. Goodell said.
"YOU HAVE fertile ground
to work with," he said. "What
is necessary now is to focus all
this public support on public
officials. Let them know that
the war is an issue and will
remain an issue."
He added that people must
keep up a sustained pressure in
their effort against the war. It
was the pressure that came just
after the Cambodian incursion
that convinced about 40
senators that they should
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necessary services to its people.
As city services worsen, a
small percentage of people
begin to i'eel alienated. It is
these people who become
politically disruptive, according
to Michael.
"These disruptions are
dangerious, continued Michael,
because thev come at a time
when we don't know how to
govern and man is making
constant demands upon so
ciety." Michael stated that
computer results could be used
to monitor groups of people
but the real value lay in helping
man gain an understanding of
the universe.
"Given the opportunity of
working in his home using a
computer station, man will be
better able to relate with
others because of increased
interaction with his family."
Problems will occur as more
people are replaced by
support a fixed date proposal
for getting out of Vietnam, he
said.
But, he added that the
pressure was only short te rn.
A more sustained pressure
might have brought about more
conversions, he said.
Another problem that
Goodell said he identified in
the country was a breakdown
of communications. He
accused the vice president of
furthering this breakdown.
"Our free society is based
on respect for people's rights
to differences of opinions," he
said. "Not the vice president or
anyone else has the right to
destroy this respect."
Goodell added that the Vice
President now "seems to be
under sedation to a degree."
People are "uptight" about
the possibility of Agnew being
President if something should
happen to Nixon, he said1. The
maverick Republican recently
called for an "insurgency" in
his party. If the president has
not changed his views and
actions significantly by
election time Goodell promised
that Nixon would be opposed
in Republican primaries.
He speculated that a
Democratic candidate who
could unite the party might
make Nixon a one-term President
machines, but Michael feels
that we need long range social
plans now, to cope with the
future.
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