"[T]here is a middle ground which I would like to occupy, and I think people are going to have to try to find ways to occupy: namely to try to keep up a serious commitment to intellectual values and intellectual ans scientific problems that really concern you and yet at the sme time make a serious and one hopes useful contribution to the enormous extra-scientific questions. Commitment to work on the problems of racism, oppression, imperialism and so on, is in the United States and absolute necessity. Now exactly how one can maintain that sort of schitzophrenic existence I am not sure; it is very difficult. It's not only a matter of too much demand on one's time, but also a high degree of ongoing personal conflict about where your next outburst of energy should go. And unless people somehow resolve the problem I think the future is rather dim. If they do resolve it I think it might be rather hopeful."
phote taken with my lovely mini dv camera
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