THE WOMAN IN THE CAVE
Sir-Your editorial of August 2 aroused certain thoughts in my mind. What is "normal" experience? . Surely the normal people are the ones who approach most closely to fulfilling the purpose for which man was created. "Normal" should not be confused with "average." The average at present would appear to be abnormal, as you in your remarks show you are aware. It is when our "censoring minds" control our actions that we are normal. Was the case cited not just a result of the refusal to listen to the censoring mind? Perhaps a gaol sentence is not the answer to such problems, yet the time has surely come. when we must realise that such occurrences are more often than not the consequences of wrong thinking and wrong acting on behalf of the ‘person concerned and could be controlled by them. They are not the innocent victims of abnormalities visited on them by their Creator, but the victims of their own thoughts and actions and of the society around them. Do we not see these results all about us? It is only a step further from the "memories which would cause shame and embarrassment" to the woman in the cave and the abnormal practices of today such as obscene letters, the much publicised juvenile delinquency and the bodgies and widgies reputed to take the law into their own hands.
ONLOOKER
(Hastings).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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234THE WOMAN IN THE CAVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 944, 13 September 1957, Page 11
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