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November 25, 1982

Use Your Head

Are your lecture notes virtually useless?
Do you forget what you have read and
studied as soon as you put down your
study material? Do you have difficulty
organizing essays and assignments?

Use your head can help you with practical guides for;

® comprehensive
note taking.
* organizing
essays
e studying for
exams
*improving long-term
memory
®and releasing
creative energy

Three hour workshops:Kwantlen College, Surrey
Campus, room 409, Thursday November 18th from 7-10
pm, Tuesay Nvember 23rd from 7-10 pm, Thursday
December 2nd from 7-10 pm and Thursday December’
9th from 7-10 pm.
For more intensive all day workshops: Kwantlen
College Richmond Campus on Saturday November 20th
from 9-4:30 pm or at the Granville Island barge 1295
Johnston St. on Granville Island on Saturday December
4th.
Three hour workshops will cost $12. The all day
workshops are $50.
For further information and _ registration enone:
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in larger amounts than indi-
vidual business enterprises.
However, when discoveries

are made in the military sec-
tor, such as the development
of integrated circuits in the
U.S., there is little incentive
to apply the discovery to
civilian purposes due to the

guaranteed profitability of

government contracts. It was
Japan that developed stand-
ardized integrated circuits
while American electronics

companies custom built for
the military.

It appears that the vicious
circle of nuclear arms prolif-
eration can only be halted by
a general restructuring of the
economy in which resources
are shifted from the slow-
growing military sector to fa
growing military sector to
fast-growing industrial sec-
tors. This would require
planning and state interfer-
ence, sure to be. strongly
opposed by vested interests
in the slow-growing sectors.

says nuclear stockpiles area
fundamental part of, the
world’s financial
nomic structure. Big corpor-

John Kenneth Galbraith:

and eco-.

ations in the U.S.support
arms proliferation because
they need to develop wea-
pons in order to expand their
own technological base and
stimulate their own growth.
Because they are dependent
on the underwriting of
research and technological
expansion on the production
of arms for sale to the U.S.
government, big U.S.corpor-
ations identify themselves
with the goals of the various
armed services. In turn, the
corporations exert pressure

on the American government
to the degreee that congress-
men are re-elected on the ba
men are re-elected on the
basis of their success in
obtaining defense agree-
ments for their constituen-
cies.
The power of the military-
industrial complex can be
seen in militaristic foreign
policy. For instance, in the
1940's, American © aero-
space companies threatened
with bankruptcy were pre-
served through the extension
of military orders in that
their productive capacity
could be made available for

| mobilization in time 'of war.
Galbraith says:

It is necessary that there

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be an image of the world

which justifies or rational-
izes the military expendi-
tures that the arrangement
requires. In the last twenty
years, the relationship of
the Cold War to the needs
of the industrial system
has been remarkably
close. A drastic reduction
in weapons competition
following a general release
from the commitment to
the Cold War would be
sharply in conflict with the
needs of the industrial
system.

In effect, the U.S. commit-
ment to arms production has
turned the U.S.economy into
a system of defense social-
ism in which the welfare of
the country is tied to contin-
ued growth of military tech-
nology and arms prolifera-
tion. America has become a
weapons ‘culture, as have
virtually :all of the highly
industrialized countries: the
masses have become social-
ized to this weapons culture
and their learned responses
are adapted into the needs of
the military-industrial wel-
fare system. Erich Fromm
calls this phenomenon the

‘“‘pathology of. normalcy;’’
Herbert Marcuse calls it
‘“‘one-dimensional man in a
one-dimensional society,’’ in
which ‘‘we submit to the
peaceful production of the ~
means of destruction, to the |
perfection of waste, to being
educated'for a defense which
deforms. the defenders and
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