https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/9835751b3d55970fdd3aa8dbbfc5dd29.pdf 695ed3f81a4a4e3f733deabe1448ea4d PDF Text Text been foreseen by the liberals. The common man’s desires far sur­ passed his abilities. No matter how much was taken from the uncommon man and given to him, he still wanted more. The politicians, wanting to please the majority, obliged. But soon big government was taking so much from the uncommon man, he himself chose to be common. He gave up. His incentive was gone, and now, like in Russia, everyone was equal. “Certainly there were those who had had the courage to point out the similarities between Communism, and the direction we were moving. But they, like me, were quickly branded extremists or crackpots, and were soon silenced.” And after all, hadn’t the majority wanted this? When our country was first formed, he recalled, it was realized that the majority was not al­ ways right, that a democracy would not work. And so a Constitution was written to safeguard the Republic against the will of the majority, so it could long endure. But later the philosophy of “the majority is always right” was adopted along with the concept that all men are equal. “And today, in 1994, man’s freedom is gone, his incentive, his dignity, and his individuality.” The old man looked at the red, white, and blue flag waiving in the breeze, thought of what it once stood for, and wept. ONE HAND CLAPPING A clairvoyant nonentity That unheard applause An unblusterous flush of air That resounds a million times over. A void and different insolence That lies unquenched in a gaping world. The monologue of a revolting and respondent searcher It is that unconsolable osmosis that no one hears And it feels for help in an obscene and noxious world. A blind nothingness flapping its wings toward escapism. That sound .... a discordance between insanity and extinction. A false hope in a world of revolving death and destruction Yet a lucidly painted portrait of a zenith of faith in the unknown. But a schizophrenic fissure of a lost mind somewhere In the vast perplexity and nonexistence of infinity. This is the sound of ONE .......... HAND of CLAPPING —Steve Halverson � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Print poem Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "One Hand Clapping" Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/</a> The Casper College Archives has archived this story to encourage the use of its Expression Literary Arts Magazines for digital humanities and other related educational uses. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1964 Description An account of the resource Poem published by Steve Halverson in the fall 1964 Casper College Expression magazine. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Steve Halverson Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. 1964 Fall. Expression Literary and Arts Magazine, CCA 04.ii.c.2022.01 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CCA_04.ii.c.01_Expression1964_Fall_Halverson Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 page