The Family Is The American Fascism.

When There Is Official Censorship It Is A Sign That Speech Is Serious. Where There Is None, It Is Pretty Certain That The Official Spokesmen Have All The Loud-speakers.

The Ideal Of Having A Real Job That You Risk Your Soul In And Make Good Or Be Damned, Belongs To The Heroic Age Of Capitalist Enterprise, Imbued With Self-righteous Beliefs About Hard Work, Thrift, And Public Morals. Such An Ideal Might Still Have Been Mentioned In Public Fifty Years Ago; In Our Era Of Risk-insured Semimonopolies And Advertised Vices It Would Be Met With A Ghastly Stillness.

The Importance Of The Beats Is Twofold: First, They Act Out A Critique Of The Organized System That Everybody In Some Sense Agrees With. But Second-and More Important In The Long Run-they Are A Kind Of Major Pilot Study Of The Use Of Leisure In An Economy Of Abundance.

The Family Is The American Fascism.

It Is By Losing Ourselves In Inquiry, Creation & Craft That We Become Something. Civilization Is A Continual Gift Of Spirit: Inventions, Discoveries, Insight, Art. We Are Citizens, As Socrates Would Have Said, & We Have It Available As Our Own.