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Thursday, January 31, 1974
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Public's Trust Eroded By Government's Lies
By STEVE LEWIS
Kennan Berkner
THE POLITICS OF LYING by David Wise
(415 names: Random House; 1973): $8.95
When CBS newsman Daniel Scherr discovered that the FBI was investigating him in 1971, supposedly to clear him for a high level federal job, he checked with the personnel manager of the Nixon administration and denied any knowledge of the investigation.
A month later the investigation was reported in the press and Senator Sam Ervin launched an inquiry. The White House conceded that an investigation had been ordered, but only to clear Schor for a coordinate public affairs in envoy.
Schohr, whom H.R. Haldenman and John D. Ehrlichman unaffectionately called Daniel P. Schohr—the P., Ehrlichman once told newsman Dan Ruther, for stork never got the job. Alesson known fact is that such environmental position was ever filmed.
NEELED TO SAY, Scherr had done a series of news stories unfavorable to the White House before the FBI investigation, a finding that will raise House explanation grossly irrelevant.
The Schorr incident is one of many reported in David Wise's exhaustive exhibition, *The American People's Past Last year by Random House*. Wise called the erosion of the American people's confidence in their government the most significant political development of the past century.
Wise says the credibility gap first became embarrassingly apparent when President Eisenhower was caught lying to the American people in 1960 about U-2 reconnaissance flights over Russia. Hours after Eisenhower led the existence of such weapons, they were shot down and recovered pilot Francis Gary Powers and his CIA plane.
More serious, according to Wise, because it cost thousands of lives, was President Johnson's continued policy of deception that led America into the Viegham abyss.
THE PENTAGON PAPERS, Wise says,
shows that Johnson deceived Congress by
withholding information that would have
disarmed the explosive 1964 Gulf of Tonkin
incident, which Johnson wanted to be portrayed as Pearl Harbor.
Wise portals government today as more than just an old problem. As the power and size of the American government have grown, the need for incentives to deceive. Where government controls the channels of information, such as in foreign policy and national security, the only information the people receive is through a well upon the administration in power.
WEEE CALLS THE classification system the institutionalized machinery that allows
reviews
officials to lie and to tell the selective truth. The system was born out of President Truman's executive order in 1951 that exe-
cited military secret to civilian agencies.
TRUMAN'S DECREE, which was never approved by Congress, recognized three civilisation categories—top secret, secret and confidential. The information should be kept from the public indefinitely.
Wise says the classification system isn't used primarily to keep information from the enemy, but to keep information from the American people. The Communists knew about the secret U.S. bombing raids in Southeast Asia. The bombs, after all, were designed to explode into the air surrounding the bombings were for political purposes in the United States.
"The Politics of Lying," despite all its insights, comes to a frustrating conclusion. Wise hasn't any palpable solution to the contradiction between the government's need for secrecy and the public's need to know.
His lack or of a solution perhaps emphasizes that democracy is a never-ending struggle. Each generation must fight the battle anew. Wise's book is particularly relevant as we approach the climax of Watergate. He warns that Americans must make the political cost of deception severe if deception is to be discouraged.
"TERTUM ORGANUM" by P. D.
Ouspenk (306 pages); Random House;
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P. D. Ouspensky writes for the nonexistent member of the politically and philosophically educated and motivated masses that Marx dreamed of, but which failed to arise and lead the world in revolution.
He writes in clear terms of new ways to view the world, but his potential readers are members of a society that doesn't care about it. He one perceived by its supermarket mentality, a society geared to indiscriminate consumption of the environment, not its wildlife.
OUSPENSKY PROVES mathematically and philosophically the existence of the cosmic consciousness *alignment* briefly by a member of the drug culture experiencing an acid high or achieved through the ingestion of psychedelic drugs by the oriental masters reaching for nervure.
However, Ouspensky has written no mystic's handbook, no "how-to" formula for the seekers of cosmic consciousness. His purpose in writing "Tertium Organum" is to help us find for a new order of thought, expanded consciousness, which will provide a new way to observe the world and an alternative approach to what the "positiveists" of science and mathematics have used to form the world for the past several thousand years.
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IN AN ENGE IN WHICH many think that culture has fallen victim to technology, it is important to find a writer like Ouwespeng who is able to understand the scientists' positivistic thought, yet who can also evaluate it philosophically.
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Francis Bacon, in writing "Novum Organum" (new instrument), formulated the laws under which an object may be known in time:
Ouspenkny was: Russian mathematician and philosopher of the first part of the 20th
That which was Not-A, will be Not-A.
Everything was and will be either A or
Not-A.
In "Tertium Organum," however, Osinspeng says that in comus coniice
That which was A, will be A.
Everything is either A or Not-A.
century who studied mysticism not as an absurd religion to scorn, but as a new approach to thinking and to understanding the world which science and mathematics had.
Through a synthesis of the philosophy of Immuanel Kant, the mathematics of Georg Riemann and Hermann Minkowski and the mysticism of M. R. M. Bucke, Ousensky arrives at "Tertium Organum," which means the "third instrument" of thought.
ARNOTILTE WROTE "Organism" (instrument) and formulated the laws under which this work is conducted.
A is both A and Not-A; everything is A and Not-A; A is all.
A is A.
A is Not.A
OUSENSPYK FIRST proves that time is the fourth dimension because it is perpendicular to the third dimension, just as the cube in the third dimension adds a new, parallel plane to the first plane of the second dimension. When the mind achieves cosmic consciousness, it perceives not only the present, but the past. It also perceives not all the possible pasts—at the same time.
The most fascinating theory that Ouspensky proposes is that people see the world only two-dimensionally, as in a movie or on television. The third dimension is a concept only, which the mind adds to the visual two dimensions because of the
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awareness of the third dimension through touch.
Everything would appear flat if people had no sense of touch or lacked concepts. By touching an object, a baby realizes its three dimensionality. However, he cannot see the third dimension, which is a concept that he adds to the two-dimensionality of vision.
SINCE ANIMALS have no concepts, Cuspensps reasons, they only conceive of the world as two dimensional; to the animal it moves in motion as motion as it moves around an object.
Ouspensky rejects the positivists' exclusion of expanded consciousness in scientific study and says that science is limited because it can only show an object as it is perceived and conceived of in the human mind—it cannot show the real essence of the object.
OUSPENSKY HAS an amazing knack for clearly expressing highly complex theories. He assumes only two knowns: the existence of the existence of the world. He then develops a theory of cosmic consciousness in which both part and all of the whole.
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