Transcribe
Translate
Timebinder, v. 1, issue 4, 1945
Page 18
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
time to things over which I have absolutely no control -- mostly the draft. I have done the only things I can do to assure myself a fair treatment in the selective service, and realize that pondering the matter over and over can do no good, unless I were to try to figure out a means of evasion; still I do it. However, I think that most of my other "worrying" is fully justified, and that more "worrying" on the part of mankind (it might be called foresight, deep thinking, planning for tomorrow, or any number of things) is needed. If our fine pioneers had worried a little more about their cultivation practices would do to the land, we would have been saved a much bigger worry of our own -- of stopping the dust storms. If people didn't worry now as much as they do about the danger of their houses burning down we wouldn't have fire insurance. Worry has triumphed here and there, but it hasn't even made an inroad on the assurance that things will turn out all right in other directions. You'll find this refusal to consider the facts in the most unexpected places. It is what makes a lot of people get themselves drunk when faced with a problem. It is what inspires sarcastic remarks in the movies when the tensest moment of the drama arrives; in this case, those making the remarks are not mentally courageous enough to let themselves go into the plot of a picture and identify themselves with the characters -- it seems too much like worrying over a series of shadows on a screen. Naturally, I don't think then hours a day of pondering over what may happen tomorrow is healthy for any individual. But I do think that keeping in mind what will happen to your pocket-book, if you don't do your work well, may very possibly keep you doing your job as it should be done. I also think that failure to worry over the present world problems today and in the days to come and failure to act as the results of that worry indicate, may cause most of the people of the earth to be blown to bits by atomic bombs a half-century from now. Ugh. Now I'm beginning to sound like ---, and I'm gradually drifting away from the subject. Maybe you can get what I'm driving at from the above. I find myself remarkably in agreement with most of the other major points you've made in the first two THE TIME-BINDERS, and hope most heartily that there will be more issues. Answer to Harry Warner: Am very much interested in your statements about "optimism" and "worrying". I can see all the arguments you put, all right, but they do not cover exactly what I mean by optimism. To me, 18
Saving...
prev
next
time to things over which I have absolutely no control -- mostly the draft. I have done the only things I can do to assure myself a fair treatment in the selective service, and realize that pondering the matter over and over can do no good, unless I were to try to figure out a means of evasion; still I do it. However, I think that most of my other "worrying" is fully justified, and that more "worrying" on the part of mankind (it might be called foresight, deep thinking, planning for tomorrow, or any number of things) is needed. If our fine pioneers had worried a little more about their cultivation practices would do to the land, we would have been saved a much bigger worry of our own -- of stopping the dust storms. If people didn't worry now as much as they do about the danger of their houses burning down we wouldn't have fire insurance. Worry has triumphed here and there, but it hasn't even made an inroad on the assurance that things will turn out all right in other directions. You'll find this refusal to consider the facts in the most unexpected places. It is what makes a lot of people get themselves drunk when faced with a problem. It is what inspires sarcastic remarks in the movies when the tensest moment of the drama arrives; in this case, those making the remarks are not mentally courageous enough to let themselves go into the plot of a picture and identify themselves with the characters -- it seems too much like worrying over a series of shadows on a screen. Naturally, I don't think then hours a day of pondering over what may happen tomorrow is healthy for any individual. But I do think that keeping in mind what will happen to your pocket-book, if you don't do your work well, may very possibly keep you doing your job as it should be done. I also think that failure to worry over the present world problems today and in the days to come and failure to act as the results of that worry indicate, may cause most of the people of the earth to be blown to bits by atomic bombs a half-century from now. Ugh. Now I'm beginning to sound like ---, and I'm gradually drifting away from the subject. Maybe you can get what I'm driving at from the above. I find myself remarkably in agreement with most of the other major points you've made in the first two THE TIME-BINDERS, and hope most heartily that there will be more issues. Answer to Harry Warner: Am very much interested in your statements about "optimism" and "worrying". I can see all the arguments you put, all right, but they do not cover exactly what I mean by optimism. To me, 18
Hevelin Fanzines
sidebar
