I Am Through With This Body, And

We Have Witnessed The Terrible Increases In The Incidence Of Alcoholism, The Advent Of Drug Dependency, The Protests, Marches, Strikes And Human Alienation.

However, If We Examine The Canadian Scene Closely Enough, We Can See Signs Of This Physical And Spiritual Rot Settling Into A Number Of Our Canadian Urban Centres With A Troubling Spill-over Into Many Of Our More Rural Areas.

To Conquer Nature Is, In Effect, To Remove All Natural Barriers And Human Norms And To Substitute Artificial, Fabricated Equivalents For Natural Processes.

As A Consequence, Progress Has Come To Mean Simply More Power, More Profit, More Productivity, More Paper Prosperity, All Of Which Are Convertible Into Standards Concerned Only With Size Or Magnitude Rather Than Quality Or Excellence.

But Most Canadians Have Recognized To A Greater Or Lesser Extent That Despite Much Of The So-called Progress Of The Affluent Society, Essential Ingredients To A Meaningful Life Seem To Be Either Entirely Lacking, Or At Best, Difficult To Grasp.