We Are Not Completely Autonomous.

It's Not Enough To Be The Best At What You Do. You Must Be Perceived As The Only One Who Does What You Do.

If You Can Create A Reality That Is Entirely Fictitious, It Doesn't Owe Anything To This Stuff Out Here, But You Interact With It On Your Own Terms. I Mean, If You Took It To The Point Where Finally You Get, Say, Tactile Feedback, So You Were Wired In In Terms Of The Whole Nervous System. The Sensorium. You Would Have The Ultimate Art Form. I Mean, Any Painter Would Want It, Any Filmmaker Would Want Access To It You Know, Any Musician Would Want Access To It. It Would Eliminate The Need For The Divisions Between What We Describe As The Arts, Converting The Whole Thing To Experience.

It's A Joke. Greed And The Desire To Take Drugs Are Two Separate Things. If You Want To Separate The Two, The Thing You Do Is Make Drugs Legal. Accept The Reality That People Do Want To Change Their Consciousness, And Make An Effort To Make Safer, Healthier Drugs.

But Hey, When You Live In Watts, You Need A Little Smack To Get By, You Know What I Mean? You Need Something Soft And Comfortable In Your Life, 'cause You're Not Going To Get It From What's Around You. And Society Isn't Going To Give It To You.

There's A Lot There To Enlarge You. That's Part Of The Value Of Being In An Extended Family Is That It Enlarges You. It Makes You Bigger. It Makes You More.