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Peace Corps (1966)
Volume 30. Argo, 1996.
3 Cassettes [Transcript: 40 pages]
And if you go to India and serve two years, it would be foolish to think that the fruits of what you are doing can be seen after two years. It cannot be seen after four years. You know when it could be seen? If the people with whom you have lived will tell their grandchild that one day this grandchild should go to the United States, and look it over what this queer country was from which such a plant had arrived, then you would be successful.
July 15, 1966
This series of lectures presents a barrier to peace and a way of overcoming it. A major barrier, he argues, is defined by his "law of technology" namely, that each advancement in technology shortens the time necessary to act in space, and so expands the space (geographic boundaries). This brings the activities of industrial societies in direct contact with all parts of the world. This rapid contact sometimes destroys parts of the other cultures. A different kind of contact, one that was initially long term, unobtrusive, and unrecognized, could work as an antidote. He suggests that service in the Peace Corps is unrecognized because members volunteer their time. Such unrecognized voluntary service can make an impression on the people served, an impression that lies fallow, and then bears fruit several generations later. Three 1-hour lectures.
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