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{{p|60}}<font size="5">'''Fake revolt<br>and mystic double-think'''</font>

<font size="4">'''[[Author:Reg O'Lucian|REG {{O|c}}LUCIAN]]'''</font>

<div style="text-align:justify;">'''{{l|THE FAKE REVOLT|http://www.ep.tc/legman-thefakerevolt/}} by {{w|G. Legman|Gershon_Legman}} ({{w|New York|New_York_City}}, Breaking Point, 1967)'''

{{sc|This most sarcastic but overdue}} tract rips apart phoney youth revolt in psychopathic America, and by extension, {{qq|her cheap imitators}}. ''{{l|The Fake Revolt|http://www.ep.tc/legman-thefakerevolt/}}'' was published this year. The author, {{w|G. Legman|Gershon_Legman}}, is not of the age group he says has had it. I detect nostalgia for the simplicities of socialist revolutionaries in the 30{{s}} and rationalisation of rile at missing out. Under the flash viciouis style lies a pessimist and a puritan, sometimes underestimating, always stimulating. He takes the {{w|Bomb|Nuclear_weapon}} as the supreme fact hanging over the world, fact making nonsense of all revolts stopping short of tearing down State and capitalism.

{{p|s1}}'''REVOLT DIVERTED'''

{{tab}}Legman picks on three blind alleys down which the rebellious have been led; gestures that merely raise the ante, e.g. sloganising, hitting cops; the cult of cool; and {{qq|perversion}}, sexual and chemical, e.g. sadism ({{qq|The Atom Bomb is nothing but the {{w|Marquis de Sade|Marquis_de_Sade}} on a government grant}}) and {{w|LSD|Lysergic_acid_diethylamide}} culture. He reserves his harshest tirades for youth{{s}} misleaders{{dash}}the camp controllers of fashion, the psychedelic businessmen, media-<wbr>men and academics; these last, the potential critics of the system, silenced by their share in the national lolly.

{{p|s2}}'''SELLING OUT'''

{{tab}}Increasingly big business makes equally meaningless the idealist{{s}} desire to improve the world and the disillusioned{{s}} desire to escape its decay. Money and Power between them buy up most threats to the status quo. Sell out is the way out. Legman cites girls leaving their lovers for money bags, boys shedding communist skins when {{w|McCarthy|Joseph_McCarthy}} turned on the heat, and worse still those who are waiting in the wings with ready made excuses for their tardiness in promoting revolution. {{qq|Everybody wants to be your bedfellow, the whole scene trembles continuously on the paranoid edge of violence.}} Revolt is meaningless when consumer-<wbr>oriented; revolutionary, no, deliciously revolting, yes.

{{p|61}}'''CAMP'''

{{tab}}Camp is apolitical, concerned with style not content. The daring pose or {{qq|revolution in dress}} tends to disguise the reactionary vacuum in the {{w|mod|Mod_(subculture)}} psyche. Camp pleases the eye when you are out of your mind. Where else can one be when analysis of society{{s}} dynamics reveal no easy ''political'' {{qq|way out}}? So let{{s}} be beautiful people.

{{p|s4}}'''CIVIL RIGHTS'''

{{tab}}After the sell out what{{s}} left of revolt? Legman dismisses the civil rights workers for a start. {{qq|Getting bashed by the cops or by {{w|Southern|Southern_United_States}} sheriffs makes them feel involved.}} Violence is implicit in revolt. He accuses the non-<wbr>violent of shying from the guilt that attends the use of violence, settling for gestures instead of revolt leading to revolution.

{{p|s5}}'''{{w|PROVOS|Provo_(movement)}} AND {{w|DIGGERS|Diggers_(theater)}}'''

{{tab}}He dismisses provocation likewise, without granting that to provoke is a way of trying out one{{s}} strength by setting authority against people until people take sides or suffer. The Diggers he writes off as mock-<wbr>pious fake Utopians. He ignores their entirely voluntary base: {{qq|How exactly is it a revolt against muddled middle class parents to try and crowd the government into becoming a parental welfare state composed of nothing but a mammoth Food and Drug connection.}}

{{p|s6}}'''DRUGS'''

{{tab}}He points out that a {{w|drug scene|Drug_culture}} is nothing new{{dash|the poet {{l|Theophile Gautier|https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Pierre_Jules_Th%C3%A9ophile_Gautier}} was turning {{w|Paris|Paris}} on to {{w|pot|Cannabis}} and long hair in the 1830{{s}}, and nothing revolutionary}}your parents booze themselves silly. He prefers to ignore that some drugs are more illuminating than others. Use these if you will. But don{{t}} pretend to being revolutionary while laid up in your pad out of your skull, unfit for misleading even the thickest of fuzz, now battering your door down.

{{p|s7}}'''DATED?'''

{{tab}}Curiously, with its tone of comprehending everything, ''The Fake Revolt'' omits mention of the ghetto riots, the {{w|Vietnam War|Vietnam_War}} and {{qq|The Resistance}}. Events have overtaken the author, words like these no longer stand. {{qq|It cannot come out for anything radical without going to gaol so it has come out for nothing.}} Other judgements are still sharp. {{qq|A {{w|hippie|Hippie}} or a {{w|beatnik|Beatnik}} is a frantically self-<wbr>advertising coward and parasite, all tired and beaten by a struggle in which he somehow never engaged}} and {{qq|The revolt against punctuation, art anatomy and sexual normality replaces any revolt against the Atom Bomb and the profit system whose swansong it is}}.

{{p|s8}}'''COOL NAILED'''

{{tab}}The best part of ''The Fake Revolt'' is the analysis of {{qq|Cool}} as leading to total affectlessness or the inability to feel and the fear of touch. Time will show whether {{w|Love-<wbr>Ins|Love-in}} and {{w|Flower Power|Flower_power}} have in the least checked the {{qq|new venereal disease}}. Legman rightly diagnoses cool{{s}} survival value or more than a matter of fashionable acceptance by {{w|Madison Avenue|Madison_Avenue}}. {{qq|Keep Cool}}, common injunctive among the hip, has two disjunctive senses; don{{t}} lose your head and/or stay out of trouble. In the latter and prevalent sense, cool smoothes over the widespread {{p|62}}failure of nerve outsiders complain of. Cool is then {{qq|a let-<wbr>out for every affectless person to do any and every rotten thing he or she is called upon to do by the Job}}. Affectless persons deny to themselves that they are responsible for anything or can even touch anything and that anything can touch them. Cool destroys the individual{{s}} inner world of feelings and sexual potency just as surely as it subsidises global world destruction. ''Save Earth Now.''

{{p|s9}}'''POLITICS OF APOCALYPSE'''

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 {{tab}}Revo&shy;lu&shy;tion in your own soul is the hippy recipe to save the world. Forget the dead and dying else&shy;where on whom your econo&shy;mic freedom is predi&shy;cated. Such a revo&shy;lu&shy;tion does not touch the modern state and its sup&shy;por&shy;ters. To believe other&shy;wise is gross bad faith or mere trans&shy;cen&shy;dental naivety. Why under&shy;esti&shy;mate the enemy or deny him exis&shy;tence? This hippy half revolt is inhe&shy;rent&shy;ly &eacute;litist, unsym&shy;pathe&shy;tic in prac&shy;tice to the wage slaved prole&shy;ta&shy;riat, bour&shy;geois in its econo&shy;mic base, and {{p|64}}riddled with mys&shy;tical ini&shy;tia&shy;tions. All the wishful clap about turning on straight people one by one cannot dis&shy;guise the hippie{{s|r}} basic treason to their fellow men (sorry, beings), their other&shy;world&shy;ly denial of the glaring social and econo&shy;mic prob&shy;lems beyond those that affect them indi&shy;vidu&shy;ally this week or next. Cool it baby, what bag are you in, I{{m}} an indi&shy;vi&shy;dual.
-{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|German State|Weimar_Republic}} changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|{{w|The Process|The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment}}}} (symbol{{tab}}), in true &eacute;litest style, calls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of {{w|Mayfair|Mayfair}}, {{w|{{popup|Greece|The sect allegedly purchased a yacht in Greece for travel between Great Britain and Mexico.}}|Greece}} and {{w|Xtul, Mexico|Xtul}}.
+{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|German State|Weimar_Republic}} changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|{{w|The Process|The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment}}}} (symbol [[File:Process.png]]<!-- no symbol printed in the original, only a blank space -->), in true &eacute;litest style, calls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of {{w|Mayfair|Mayfair}}, {{w|{{popup|Greece|The sect allegedly purchased a yacht in Greece for travel between Great Britain and Mexico.}}|Greece}} and {{w|Xtul, Mexico|Xtul}}.
 {{tab}}Innocent mystics capi&shy;tu&shy;late to dia&shy;bolic mysti&shy;cisms. Like {{qq|the natio&shy;nal inter&shy;est}}. The missing ele&shy;ment{{dash}}social per&shy;spec&shy;tive.

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 {{tab}}Revo&shy;lu&shy;tion in your own soul is the hippy recipe to save the world. Forget the dead and dying else&shy;where on whom your econo&shy;mic freedom is predi&shy;cated. Such a revo&shy;lu&shy;tion does not touch the modern state and its sup&shy;por&shy;ters. To believe other&shy;wise is gross bad faith or mere trans&shy;cen&shy;dental naivety. Why under&shy;esti&shy;mate the enemy or deny him exis&shy;tence? This hippy half revolt is inhe&shy;rent&shy;ly &eacute;litist, unsym&shy;pathe&shy;tic in prac&shy;tice to the wage slaved prole&shy;ta&shy;riat, bour&shy;geois in its econo&shy;mic base, and {{p|64}}riddled with mys&shy;tical ini&shy;tia&shy;tions. All the wishful clap about turning on straight people one by one cannot dis&shy;guise the hippie{{s|r}} basic treason to their fellow men (sorry, beings), their other&shy;world&shy;ly denial of the glaring social and econo&shy;mic prob&shy;lems beyond those that affect them indi&shy;vidu&shy;ally this week or next. Cool it baby, what bag are you in, I{{m}} an indi&shy;vi&shy;dual.
-{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|German State|Weimar_Republic}} changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|{{w|The Process|The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment}} (symbol{{tab}}), in true &eacute;litest style, calls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of {{w|Mayfair|Mayfair}}, {{w|{{popup|Greece|The sect allegedly purchased a yacht in Greece for travel between Great Britain and Mexico.}}|Greece}} and {{w|Xtul, Mexico|Xtul}}.
+{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|German State|Weimar_Republic}} changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|{{w|The Process|The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment}}}} (symbol{{tab}}), in true &eacute;litest style, calls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of {{w|Mayfair|Mayfair}}, {{w|{{popup|Greece|The sect allegedly purchased a yacht in Greece for travel between Great Britain and Mexico.}}|Greece}} and {{w|Xtul, Mexico|Xtul}}.
 {{tab}}Innocent mystics capi&shy;tu&shy;late to dia&shy;bolic mysti&shy;cisms. Like {{qq|the natio&shy;nal inter&shy;est}}. The missing ele&shy;ment{{dash}}social per&shy;spec&shy;tive.

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-{{p|s5}}'''{{w|PROVOS|Provo_(movement)}} AND {{w|DIGGERS|Diggers_(theater)}}'''
+{{p|s5}}'''PROVOS AND DIGGERS'''
-{{tab}}He dis&shy;mis&shy;ses provo&shy;ca&shy;tion likewise, without gran&shy;ting that to provoke is a way of trying out one{{s}} strength by setting autho&shy;rity against people until people take sides or suffer. The Diggers he writes off as mock-<wbr>pious fake Utopi&shy;ans. He ignores their en&shy;tire&shy;ly volun&shy;tary base: {{qq|How exactly is it a revolt against muddled middle class parents to try and crowd the govern&shy;ment into beco&shy;ming a parental welfare state com&shy;posed of nothing but a mam&shy;moth Food and Drug connec&shy;tion.}}
+{{tab}}He dis&shy;mis&shy;ses {{w|provo&shy;ca&shy;tion|Provo_(movement)}} likewise, without gran&shy;ting that to provoke is a way of trying out one{{s}} strength by setting autho&shy;rity against people until people take sides or suffer. The {{w|Diggers|Diggers_(theater)}} he writes off as mock-<wbr>pious fake Utopi&shy;ans. He ignores their en&shy;tire&shy;ly volun&shy;tary base: {{qq|How exactly is it a revolt against muddled middle class parents to try and crowd the govern&shy;ment into beco&shy;ming a parental welfare state com&shy;posed of nothing but a mam&shy;moth Food and Drug connec&shy;tion.}}
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-{{p|s11}}'''{{w|HELL{{S|c}} ANGELS|Hell's_Angels}} AND {{w|TRIPPIES|Transcendentalism}}'''
+{{p|s11}}'''HELL{{S|c}} ANGELS AND TRIPPIES'''
-''The Fake Revolt''relates the Hell{{s}} Angels cele&shy;bra&shy;ted cool to the cool of the so-<wbr>called trans&shy;cen&shy;denta&shy;lists. Both are en route to an iden&shy;tical no&shy;thing&shy;ness. One through body smash&shy;ing vio&shy;lence, usually indis&shy;crimi&shy;nate, the other via mind-<wbr>blowing drugs, again with few re&shy;deem&shy;ing excep&shy;tions. Modern ex&shy;peri&shy;ence is chaotic, every&shy;one being subject to a con&shy;stant flood of stimuli, nearly impos&shy;sible to eval&shy;uate it all for the purpose of action. Hell{{s}} Angels and trans&shy;cen&shy;denta&shy;lists react iden&shy;tical&shy;ly to this chaos. In trying to short&shy;cut the route to salva&shy;tion they abdi&shy;cate their chances of freedom. They decline the long and hard road of self-<wbr>discip&shy;line only to be discip&shy;lined by the machi&shy;nery of the state or the vara&shy;ries of their ma&shy;chines; or to be dis&shy;solved in an imper&shy;sonal {{w|Nirvana|Nirvana}}, perhaps finally a person&shy;less {{w|mush&shy;room cloud|Mushroom_cloud}}.
+''The Fake Revolt'' relates the {{w|Hell{{s}} Angels|Hell's_Angels}}{{a}}<!-- no apostrophe in original --> cele&shy;bra&shy;ted cool to the cool of the so-<wbr>called {{w|trans&shy;cen&shy;denta&shy;lists|Transcendental_Meditation_movement}}. Both are en route to an iden&shy;tical no&shy;thing&shy;ness. One through body smash&shy;ing vio&shy;lence, usually indis&shy;crimi&shy;nate, the other via mind-<wbr>blowing drugs, again with few re&shy;deem&shy;ing excep&shy;tions. Modern ex&shy;peri&shy;ence is chaotic, every&shy;one being subject to a con&shy;stant flood of stimuli, nearly impos&shy;sible to eval&shy;uate it all for the purpose of action. Hell{{s}} Angels and trans&shy;cen&shy;denta&shy;lists react iden&shy;tical&shy;ly to this chaos. In trying to short&shy;cut the route to salva&shy;tion they abdi&shy;cate their chances of freedom. They decline the long and hard road of self-<wbr>discip&shy;line only to be discip&shy;lined by the machi&shy;nery of the state or the vaga&shy;ries of their ma&shy;chines; or to be dis&shy;solved in an imper&shy;sonal {{w|Nirvana|Nirvana}}, perhaps finally a person&shy;less {{w|mush&shy;room cloud|Mushroom_cloud}}.
-{{tab}}The flir&shy;ta&shy;tion with {{w|Nazi|Nazism}} gear and the fasci&shy;nation of the Hell{{s}} Angels betray the hippies{{s|r}} rep&shy;ressed dream of vio&shy;lence. If they live such symbols, only to provoke, as some will say, why isn{{t}} provo&shy;ca&shy;tion more {{p|63}}the mode of these new quie&shy;tists? No, the average hippy is in a double bind. If hippies really under&shy;stood the violent society against which they have reacted they woud have the gracce to admit that their pro&shy;fessed non-<wbr>vio&shy;lence can only be skin deep unless vio&shy;lence be exor&shy;cised by a serious discip&shy;line.
+{{tab}}The flir&shy;ta&shy;tion with {{w|Nazi gear|Wehrmacht_uniforms}} and the fasci&shy;nation of the Hell{{s}} Angels betray the hippie{{s|r}} rep&shy;ressed dream of vio&shy;lence. If they live such symbols, only to provoke, as some will say, why isn{{t}} provo&shy;ca&shy;tion more {{p|63}}the mode of these new quie&shy;tists? No, the average hippy is in a double bind. If hippies really under&shy;stood the violent society against which they have reacted they would have the grace to admit that their pro&shy;fessed non-<wbr>vio&shy;lence can only be skin deep unless vio&shy;lence be exor&shy;cised by a serious discip&shy;line.
-{{p|s12}}'''A NEW {{w|HITLER|Adolf_Hitler}}'''
+{{p|s12}}'''A NEW HITLER'''
-{{tab}}What worries Legman most, to quote him at length, is {{qq|the at&shy;temp&shy;ted gather&shy;ing of this proudly self-<wbr>styled {{q|under&shy;ground}} brew of {{w|lumpen|Lumpenproletariat}} ele&shy;ments, under the rio&shy;tously phoney leader&shy;ship of lunatic promo&shy;ters and pub&shy;lish&shy;ers, and the pent&shy;house direc&shy;tion of the wilier {{w|New Left|New_Left}} is essen&shy;tial&shy;ly a front operation or {{w|Social Demo&shy;cra&shy;tic|Social_democracy}} Trojan horse inten&shy;ded to set up cadres to welcome the new Hitler when he comes}}. Who{{s}} plot&shy;ting what? I feel Legman{{s}} extreme sug&shy;ges&shy;tibi&shy;lity, which has yielded this explo&shy;sive tract, has here got the better of him; and that there is no such total con&shy;spi&shy;racy because there is no one with the neces&shy;sary world view to launch and main&shy;tain it.
+{{tab}}What worries Legman most, to quote him at length, is {{qq|the at&shy;temp&shy;ted gather&shy;ing of this proudly self-<wbr>styled {{q|under&shy;ground}} brew of {{w|lumpen|Lumpenproletariat}} ele&shy;ments, under the rio&shy;tously phoney leader&shy;ship of lunatic promo&shy;ters and pub&shy;lish&shy;ers, and the pent&shy;house direc&shy;tion of the wilier {{w|New Left|New_Left}} waiting for the day it can sell out its noisily Fake Revolt}}. Who to? {{qq|It is pre&shy;cise&shy;ly this angry grum&shy;bling wildcat hosti&shy;lity to every&shy;thing that will make the Fake Revolt the chosen vehicle of the next {{w|Hitler|Adolf_Hitler}}}} &hellip; {{qq|the New Left is essen&shy;tial&shy;ly a front operation or {{w|Social Demo&shy;cra&shy;tic|Social_democracy}} Trojan horse inten&shy;ded to set up cadres to welcome the new Hitler when he comes}}. Who{{s}} plot&shy;ting what? I feel Legman{{s}} extreme sug&shy;ges&shy;tibi&shy;lity, which has yielded this explo&shy;sive tract, has here got the better of him; and that there is no such total con&shy;spi&shy;racy because there is no one with the neces&shy;sary world view to launch and main&shy;tain it.
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-{{tab}}The lash of all his whip&shy;words leaves one smar&shy;ting. Cle&shy;verly Legman never reveals from what supe&shy;rior stand&shy;point he judges the Fake Revolt. Is he a lone figure crying out or a move&shy;ment to share his atti&shy;tude with? Is he trying to tell people how to make a revo&shy;lu&shy;tion? If so, then take this; {{qq|the new revolt nowa&shy;days con&shy;sists there&shy;fore of a bunch of inar&shy;ticu&shy;late long-<wbr>haired ado&shy;les&shy;cents without lea&shy;der&shy;ship and without a pro&shy;gramme}}. Never mind the autho&shy;rita&shy;rian tone, he is trying to say why we all cheat our&shy;selves of revo&shy;lu&shy;tion. Total revolt is needed. Partial revolt is easily recu&shy;per&shy;ated by estab&shy;lish&shy;ments and con&shy;tained as a pro&shy;fita&shy;ble shide&shy;show or safety valve.
+{{tab}}The lash of all his whip&shy;words leaves one smar&shy;ting. Cle&shy;verly Legman never reveals from what supe&shy;rior stand&shy;point he judges the Fake Revolt. Is he a lone figure crying out for a move&shy;ment to share his atti&shy;tude with? Is he trying to tell people how to make a revo&shy;lu&shy;tion? If so, then take this; {{qq|the new revolt nowa&shy;days con&shy;sists there&shy;fore of a bunch of inar&shy;ticu&shy;late long-<wbr>haired ado&shy;les&shy;cents without lea&shy;der&shy;ship and without a pro&shy;gramme}}. Never mind the autho&shy;rita&shy;rian tone, he is trying to say why we all cheat our&shy;selves of revo&shy;lu&shy;tion. Total revolt is needed. Partial revolt is easily recu&shy;per&shy;ated by estab&shy;lish&shy;ments and con&shy;tained as a pro&shy;fita&shy;ble side&shy;show or safety valve.
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-{{tab}}Legman, I repeat, is not of the gene&shy;ra&shy;tion he writes of, broadly those now between 15 and 25. Thus his de&shy;tached fury and total lack of sym&shy;pa&shy;thy. Previ&shy;ous gene&shy;ra&shy;tions have be&shy;queathed this one a fouled-<wbr>up world. The best of the present gene&shy;ra&shy;tion, Legman warns, are now des&shy;troy&shy;ing them&shy;selves in search of kicks, rather than get down to des&shy;troy&shy;ing that lousy world of their parents. I would add we will not destroy that world until one and all have working know&shy;ledge of the power struc&shy;tures that daily divert and sup&shy;press our right&shy;ful rage; mean&shy;while con&shy;scious people annot ''live'' such know&shy;ledge without diver&shy;sion.
+{{tab}}Legman, I repeat, is not of the gene&shy;ra&shy;tion he writes of, broadly those now between {{popup|15 and 25|born 1943–53}}. Thus his de&shy;tached fury and total lack of sym&shy;pa&shy;thy. Previ&shy;ous gene&shy;ra&shy;tions have be&shy;queathed this one a fouled-<wbr>up world. The best of the present gene&shy;ra&shy;tion, Legman warns, are now des&shy;troy&shy;ing them&shy;selves in search of kicks, rather than get down to des&shy;troy&shy;ing that lousy world of their parents. I would add we will not destroy that world until one and all have working know&shy;ledge of the power struc&shy;tures that daily divert and sup&shy;press our right&shy;ful rage; mean&shy;while con&shy;scious people cannot ''live'' such know&shy;ledge without diver&shy;sion.
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 {{tab}}Revo&shy;lu&shy;tion in your own soul is the hippy recipe to save the world. Forget the dead and dying else&shy;where on whom your econo&shy;mic freedom is predi&shy;cated. Such a revo&shy;lu&shy;tion does not touch the modern state and its sup&shy;por&shy;ters. To believe other&shy;wise is gross bad faith or mere trans&shy;cen&shy;dental naivety. Why under&shy;esti&shy;mate the enemy or deny him exis&shy;tence? This hippy half revolt is inhe&shy;rent&shy;ly &eacute;litist, unsym&shy;pathe&shy;tic in prac&shy;tice to the wage slaved prole&shy;ta&shy;riat, bour&shy;geois in its econo&shy;mic base, and {{p|64}}riddled with mys&shy;tical ini&shy;tia&shy;tions. All the wishful clap about turning on straight people one by one cannot dis&shy;guise the hippie{{s|r}} basic treason to their fellow men (sorry, beings), their other&shy;world&shy;ly denial of the glaring social and econo&shy;mic prob&shy;lems beyond those that affect them indi&shy;vidu&shy;ally this week or next. Cool it baby, what bag are you in, I{{m}} an indi&shy;vi&shy;dual.
-{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|Germany|German}} State changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler_Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|The Process}} (symbol{{tab}}), in true &eacute;litest style, alls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of Mayfiar, Greece and Xtul, Mexico.
+{{tab}}When it suits them the tota&shy;lita&shy;rians of busi&shy;ness, poli&shy;tics and culture can trade in such a move&shy;ment for a new one more along ''their'' lines. The {{w|German State|Weimar_Republic}} changed the far-<wbr>out {{qq|{{w|Wan&shy;der&shy;vogel|Wandervogel}}}} of the 20{{s}} into the {{qq|Hitler Jugend|Hitler_Youth}} of the 30{{s}}. From 2 Balfour Place, here in {{w|London|London}}, {{qq|{{w|The Process|The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment}} (symbol{{tab}}), in true &eacute;litest style, calls the young and con&shy;fused to re&shy;nounce the dif&shy;ficul&shy;ties of living-<wbr>in-<wbr>the-<wbr>world in favour of joining their spiri&shy;tual storm&shy;troo&shy;pers of {{w|Mayfair|Mayfair}}, {{w|{{popup|Greece|The sect allegedly purchased a yacht in Greece for travel between Great Britain and Mexico.}}|Greece}} and {{w|Xtul, Mexico|Xtul}}.
-{{tab}}Innocent stics capi&shy;tu&shy;late to dia&shy;bolic mysti&shy;cisms. Like {{qq|the natio&shy;nal inter&shy;est}}. The missing ele&shy;ment{{dash}}social per&shy;spec&shy;tive.
+{{tab}}Innocent mystics capi&shy;tu&shy;late to dia&shy;bolic mysti&shy;cisms. Like {{qq|the natio&shy;nal inter&shy;est}}. The missing ele&shy;ment{{dash}}social per&shy;spec&shy;tive.
-{{tab}}May I leave you with the expen&shy;sive double&shy;think of the Maha&shy;rishi Mahesh Yogi, spea&shy;king to stu&shy;dents at the Uni&shy;ver&shy;sity of Cali&shy;for&shy;nia, Los Angeles.
+{{tab}}May I leave you with the expen&shy;sive double&shy;think of the {{w|Maha&shy;rishi Mahesh Yogi|Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi}}, spea&shy;king to stu&shy;dents at the {{w|Uni&shy;ver&shy;sity of Cali&shy;for&shy;nia, Los Angeles|University_of_California,_Los_Angeles}}.
-{{tab}}{{qq|Is it true that you told the Beatles that the Ban the Bomb move&shy;ment was silly?}}
+{{tab}}{{qq|Is it true that you told the {{w|Beatles|The_Beatles}} that the Ban the Bomb move&shy;ment was silly?}}
 {{tab}}{{qq|Yes, I told them that. We must concern our&shy;selves with medi&shy;ta&shy;tion. Besides if one country bans the bomb, it will then be help&shy;less and de&shy;fence&shy;less.}}
-{{tab}}Maha&shy;rishi, there is a great deal of oppo&shy;si&shy;tion to the Vietnam War, many students are under the threat of the draft. Should we resist?}}
+{{tab}}{{qq|Maha&shy;rishi, there is a great deal of oppo&shy;si&shy;tion to the Vietnam War, many students are under the threat of the draft. Should we resist?}}
 {{tab}}{{qq|We should obey the elected leaders of this country. They are repre&shy;senta&shy;tives of the people. &hellip;}}