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The Battle betwen God's Flesh and Green Money, 6. September 1999
Von Ein Kunde
Segue to the end: money wins. Personal greed (or some variant of Maslow's hierarchy) triumphs over freedom of the mind. How pure these early pioneers of mind expansion were in their intentions. And how naive. What kind of society could sustain a populace of blissed-out fun-seeking consumer bees more bent on self-discovery than on collecting and distributing green pollen? The answer to this question posed such a threat to the established system that what resulted was no less than a civil war, with one side winning a smashing victory. Life in the trenches is so boring, we need our legal opiates to blot out the meaninglessness. How dare a group of outsiders suggest an alternative marketing channel! What would hapen to G.M., Seagram's, the Papal seat, and the organized crime syndicates working in the underground economy? Better to have a bloodless revolution (well, almost...see Chicago in 1968 and Kent State University in 1970) than to tolerate such an open threat to income production and distribution. This book is a fine social study that is a "must" reading for anyone who would attempt to explain the America we live in today. Going beneath the headlines without sounding too much like Oliver Stone opens up other interpretations of what happened and suggests what could have been. If you were born between 1945 and 1965 and want to know why you and your friends are doing this instead of that, read this book. If you are a student of modern American history, read this book. I have read it three time since it was first published (just finished it again), and as a baby-boomer born in 1952, I can appreciate just how close to the mark the author makes his shot.
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