Informant38

The New Sandy L-H
{there was this cloud of nervousness when the whole psychedelic rise was strongest. and so much smug satisfaction as we were beaten, yes martha actually beaten, back under the radar. but it's going to get rapidly more and more obvious that our essential point, which was always not that we knew the answers but that the course of this great ship was set straight for the blank edge of the flat world, away from life and love. it will become clearer and clearer that that was true. it's the same logic the scumroyals used on Nicaragua, it didn't work see? it doesn't work see? so desperately firm and smug. but that ticking noise...that color in the light of day that's new, the silence of the wild, it's taken years to get to where I could say this, these are people who would doom us all rather than surrender control, and they have. now these briefest of moments roll by, and they're still in charge still full of shit, still blind and deaf to the sounds of their 'collaterally damaged' victims the smug assholes in their little middleclass forts divorce themselves from the blood and terror their guard dogs create in the rest of the world, and all these years they've pulled it off, til now. and really a little while longer, but every day more wake up, it wasn't drugs that made the drought, it isn't drugs that are melting the south polar ice, etc etc ad nauseum. this is like arguing, seriously, like arguing with someone's dog. while it snarls its bitchy smug warning. useless. and dangerous let's not forget that.
Kesey's on record for so much and just a glancing mention when asked about the burnout thing or whatever you want to call it and he says something to the effect that we were as I said beaten, all the main figures were beaten or arrested which is a form of beating. it's unrecorded how thoroughly that hammer came down. but as I've said elsewhere we're talking about people who would assassinate Allende in Chile for God's sake. and so many others, people who would make war in Southeast Asia to preserve whatever. my point? What the hell do you think they would be willing to do at home? when they were so obviously threatened so heavily. at home? their children? their lawns? their money? Huh? you mindless little drones.
errrhh. ok skip that. but please use your imagination a little. it does mean you have to accept the idea that some intervention was taking place somewhere. but I think that's a little less difficult than it used to be, now isn't it?
my hardest task is to get above the desire for payback, and I owe that concept's place in my heart to Kesey, who said the job is to stop the pain not pass it on. I'm sickened by this article not for the love and sorrow in it, but for the fear that's in it. the fear and the threat unspoken}