Charles Amirkhanian talks with David Graham, Gerry Duncan, and Christopher & Teresa Venne about their publication “Attitudes 1”, a futuristic thought collection issued in mid-1971. The publication grew out of the groups interest in the work of British economist, Robert Theobald, but evolved past his theories of a guaranteed annual income, to embrace more Utopian and Spiritual theories, including reincarnation. KPFA’s Gerard Van Der Leun also joins the discussion, which ranges from the radical economic policy of full unemployment, to the use of new technologies to help feed the world, to cybernetic development, to bodiless travel for humans. This is an earnest discussion of the present, and possible future, and is a classic example of what was happening with young philosophers during the 1960s and 70s. This program was recorded on Oct. 12, 1971. |
