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THE REITH LECTURES 1967

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A Runaway World? by Edmund Leach Provost of King's College, Cambridge and University Reader in Social Anthropology
3: Ourselves and Others
Our feeling that we stand opposed to nature and also to the products of our own technology is part of a more fundamental actagonismthe split which separates ' us ' from the ' others.' Whether the ' others ' be the mysterious they' of government. or bloody foreigners.' or ' these awful youngsters,' or the despised old, they are symptoms of a fragmented way of living which generates loneliness. anxiety, and violence.
Rptd: Tues.at7.30 p.m. (Third) This talk will be printed In ' The Listener ' dated November 30

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