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Description Contents : (insert: subscription/back issue/mail order form) A Letter Home cartoon by Trina. Joshua ‘A Letter from an Idle Fellow’ – letter from Vincent Van Goch to his brother Theo + Martin Sharp collage and graphics. ‘’Murder is an Absurd Suggestion’ - Michael X on his murder charge in Trinidad. David Sparling & Joshua Thomas graphics. ‘Twilight of the Machmen’ – anti-machine musings by Garth Murphy + Peter Till graphics. OZ back issue bonanza. Spike: OZ pays damages to teacher mentioned in #28. Spare Rib party disrupted by Gay Lib. Nasty Tales trial. OZ & the Post Office Act. ‘Post-Scarcity Anarchism’ Joel Whitbrook reviews Murray Bookchin’s book + anonymous painting + Goofy graphics by Claire Sargent. ‘Machines of Loving Grace’ – an introduction to negative ionization + illustration by Mike Moore. ‘Acupuncture: Oh the needle and the damage done’ + graphics. 3p The Loser cartoon by J. Osborne. Pink Fairies and Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange ads. Help Yourself. Emerson Lake & Palmer ad. ‘There Must Be Some Way Outa Here’ – scenes from a Lebanese jail by Panos Koutrouboussis. Full page ad for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. ‘Astrolozy’ – ambrose Hollingsworth + illustrations by Thomas Bewick and his school. Naked man graphic. Ad for Time Out’s Book of London. Film reviews: The Jerusalem File, Pocket Money, Cool Breeze, The Ruling Class. Book reviews: Watch Out Kids by Mick Farren and Edward Barker, Elvis: A Biography, Franco’s Prisoner, The Wild Boys by William Burroughs, Shots: Photographs from the Underground Press + photo of bloody student Columbia ‘68. 2p Oz mail order. LP reviews: Lou Reed, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Edgar Winter, Jeff Beck, The Beach Boys. Ads for Revelation, MGM Records, Drugs and Society, Ed Sander’s The Family, film ad for Fritz the Cat. ‘Hippie Fingers in Bali Sugar’ by Jim Anderson. Ads for Bit Information Service, CBS Records, Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’. Back Cover CBS Records ad.

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Collage: Martin Sharp that point. Such a man does not always know what he could do, but he instinctively feels, I am good for some thing, my life has a purpose after all, I know that I could be quite a different man! How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside of me, what can it be? This is quite a different kind of idle man; if you like, you may take me for such a one! A caged bird in spring knows quite well that he might serve some end; he is well aware that there is something for him to do, but he cannot do it. What is it? He does not quite remember. Then some vague ideas occur to him, and he says to himself, “The others build their nests and lay their eggs and bring up their little ones”, and he knocks his head against the bars of the cage. But the cage remains, and the bird is maddened by anguish. “Look at that lazy animal,” says another bird in passing, “he seems to be living at ease.” Yes, the prisoner lives, he does not die; there are no outward signs of what passes within him — his health is good, he is more or less gay when the sun shines. But then the season of migration comes and attacks of melancholia — “But he has everything he wants,” say the children who tend him in his cage. He looks through the bars at the overcast sky where a thunderstorm is gathering, and inwardly he rebels against his fate. “I am caged, I am caged, and you tell me I do not want anything, fools! You think I have everything I need! Oh! I beseech you liberty, that I may be a bird like other birds!” A certain idle man resembles this idle bird. And circumstances often prevent men from doing things, prison­ ers in I do not know what horrible, horrible, most horrible cage. There is also — I know it — the deliverance, the tardy deliverance. A justly or unjustly ruined reputation, poverty, unavoidable circumstances, adversity — that is what makes men prisoners. One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us; nevertheless, one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I don’t think so. And one asks, “My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for all eternity?” Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep, serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison by some supreme power, by some magic force. Without this, one remains in prison. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored. And the prison is also called prejudice, misunderstanding, fatal ignorance of one thing or another, distrust, false shame. But to speak of other things, if I have come down in the world, you, on the contrary, have risen. If I have lost the sympathy of some, you, on the contrary, have gained it. That makes me very happy — I say it in all sincerity — and always will. If you hadh t seriousness or depth, I would fear that it would :not last; but as I think you are very serious and of great depth, I believe that it will. But I should be very glad if it were possible for you to see me as som ething more than an idle man of the worst type.

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For the present, I shake hands with you, thanking you again for the help you have given me. Ever yours, Vincent. Michael Abdul Malik, Michael X, is being held in the Royal Gaol, Port of Spain, Trinidad, charged with the murder of Gale Benson and Joseph Skerritt. He is being treated as a political prisoner. Michael’s long fight to establish free communities like the Black House in London, and the Free University in Trinidad, and his unwillingness to accept economic and racial oppression have led him to this small cell in Trinidad where he is now fighting to save his life. The media has had an orgy with the muddled facts surrounding this case, and we hope that this letter which Michael was finally able to get to us via his lawyer, Kenneth Foster, will help shed some light on what is really going down in Trinidad, and get Michael a fair trial and the freedom that will follow. Dan Richter Michael X: “Murder is an absurd suggestion.

Statement written by Michael Abdul SLRs, self-loading sub machine guns. dad today. This beautiful Caribbean coun­ Malik, Royal Gaol, Port of Spain, Around the court stand 68 heavily armed try is now described as a police state, 14 Trinidad, May 1972. uniform men, inside are twelve more with years after independence from England, side arms and ten with riot staffs, I am our country has been in an officially The first part of this little note may seem curious how many are around in civilian proclaimed State of Emergency for the on the surface as a litany of complaints, dress. My lawyers are harassed directly past year. On my arrival in Trinidad Jan­ but complaining as such is far away from and indirectly, like for example a three uary 1971 I began working on a Social my mind. I relate the following picture so hundred dollar demand or personal viol­ and Agricultural Programme, with large you who are faraway may see and get a ence for a taxi bill or on the other hand a gifts of money from people like you John clear picture of what's really happening refusal by Immigration to allow my law­ Lennon and your wife Yoko Ono who here. yer's clerk entry into the country, noting came and witnessed at first hand some of by the way he had been in four times be­ our work, we were able to alleviate much First you must be aware that this is not a fore, working and researching in my poverty in what is essentially quite a rich criminal trial, it is political. Murder as a defence. Mr Regis the clerk is an accredited country (oil rich). With hard work and charge in relation to myself, is an absurd member at Lincolns Inn, London. My much patience I gained in passing a large suggestion. When I was brought back to situation is made difficult even more by a following of the ordinary people and many Trinidad, I was put in a stone and concrete hold up at gun point of my wife and seizure enemies, the present administration is cell six foot by twelve foot, with no bed - of my diaries and address book and her afraid. They are parading 24 or more wit­ or any other type of furniture, this should diary and address book by the police. The nesses against me on one charge of murder, speak for itself, I remained on the con­ almost finished manuscript of my new that of a local man, and 40 witnesses on crete floor for twelve days. My lawyers book was seized and destroyed and strewn another charge of murder, this one being made representations to the Chief Justice about my yard by the Police when they an English woman. To defend myself le­ and the Prisons Commissioner and I was occupied my property, I am not allowed gally in this protracted legal battle will finally given a little bed with fibre filled to write bar on two tiny forms weekly bear enormous costs which I cannot afford, mattress, no sheets or pillow case, this is and there I must say nothing of my health at present two lawyers from St. Lucia, Mr. the situation to this day three months or weight or conditions in prison. I am not Kenneth Foster and Mr. Leo Regis his later, our constitution states that as a allowed to go into the sunlight for exercise clerk who are knowledgeable of the Car­ remand prisoner I am entitled to a light as is the custom for other prisoners, nor ibbean scene and who believe in my in­ to read by, a copy of the Quoran as a can I get any answers as to why I must nocence have taken up the cause at con­ Muslim, and the diet of a Muslim, table, endure such harsh punichment, particularly siderable expense to themselves, they can chair, but none of these things are as I am not convicted of any crime. be reached at Box 218 Castries, St. Lucia, allowed me, my usual two hundred and West Indies. Mr. Foster is also the leader My wife on occasion visited me here in five to two ten pounds is now down to of the opposition party in St. Lucia, I ask prison in the company of a local person, 159 one hundred and fifty nine, since of you my friends to send to me at the on leaving the prison they are picked up coming in here I have not eaten any food, Royal Gaol, Port of Spain, Trinidad, what by the police and interrogated as to what I sometimes eat a few biscuits and milk or assistance you can, and hope that one day “part they are playing in the Revolution ” sugar water with a bit of citrus squeezed we may see and serve each other again. in it, this we call "juice", or a piece of some are kept for many hours, the result, cheese or butter substitute. people are very frightened. Even hotels Yours in Peace, have refused to grant accomodation to my M ichael A b d u l Malik. Sometimes I go for a week or nine days on wife who is in an advanced state of preg­ water only, it it over three months now I wish to further request you to spread nancy. She was refused admittance in 14 I am in this situation. They say there will this information and write me. M. hotels. I have since advised her to go, and be a decision in about a year. I go to court remain in Guyana, the country of her birth, The retaining cost has been estimated at now about three times a week on average. with my four daughters. 25,000 dollars. To travel the 18 miles to court, I am escort­ ed by 25 armed policemen with modern The picture I have shown is one of Trini­ Illustration: David Sparling 42 w ith a cover like fam ily circle. ily fam like cover a ith w 42 address, I'm just sayin' if you see a see you if sayin' just and I'm name address, me you give gonna ain't adorned that pix horny glossy, od l STI gois none goodies, IC T IS D A S ol' good have articles the All over. 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Or can we offer to other "democratic" country know ated for ever. sects, worms, and occasional Amadeus a chance to overcome that the construction of real mammals", just because grains have this bitterness that drives him to So can you, O Z, our mouthpiece personal freedom is the dissolution been on man's menu only 20,000 such savage and anger-crazed to the outside world, give us some of the chains that bind us to them — years (?) and chimpanzees can't extremes. Try Macrobiotics again education, morality, security, money more articles like Warren Hague's. get it together to cultivate them? Amadeus, but more gently. Be free and all the rest of it. And if these If you do you will show your true O f course the successful cultures — don't deny yourself what you chains are gone so's their power libertarianism. grew grain: that way they had food want, don't think about it too and they want power, even if you during the winter. Love to all you beautiful freaks much, just relax and eat good don't Warren. all over the world. And maybe the "first group of natural food. If you still don't like I agree from experience that the Kev Occidental Macrobiotics were it — groovy — as long as you're majority of the working class are 2, Highclere sincere mystics", for what it's happy, who cares w hat you eat? rednecks committed to Capitalism, Sunn ingh ill Berks worth. And perhaps, as Amadeus Craig Sams one way or the other; there might also says, they w ent on to convert 37 Cornwall Crescent be enough working class revolut­ the less intelligent, then the "teeny- London W 11 ionaries to make the revolution, Dear Oz, boppers, dum-dums, and squares." but not to sustain it. Any revolut­ Thanks to Amadeus Vivek for Good on them. Reading this sort Dear OZ, ion will not only have the non­ describing so vividly the kind of of crap makes me proud to call my­ If government-backed OZ doesn't liberal bourgeoisie, high finance crackpot ideas about Macro­ self a macrobiotic teenybopper censor this, I want to condemn the and Frank Ritson and Robert Mark’s biotics that pervade much straight dum-dum square sincere mystic. capitalist profiteers hiding behind jolly lads against it, but also the and hip thinking, both in the States And I agree with Amadeus when the covers of OZ magazine disguised apathy or opposition of many and to a lesser extent in Britain. It he says that "All stupid factions as left-wing revolutionaries, filling members of the working class to is obvious from his article that he assume there are tw o groups of their purses w ith the pocket-money contend with, and a revolution has been strung out on some kind people in the world — us and people of gullible school-kids. facing all that opposition ( just as of macromadness himself, and it is dumber than us." What kind of The only good thing I've got to say Britain and a successful revolution no wonder that he is now so fren- faction is he that he even goes on for OZ is the brilliant idea of in­ will have to do better than that) is ziedly uptight about Macrobiotics. to classify the dummies? Shove the cluding hundreds of spelling errors. going to be a bastard. So even I have been Macrobiotic for six elitism, Amadeus. You should have Dictionary manufacturers must be though revolutionaries don't like years, but if I had to practice the learned better at Berkeley. dopers or collaborators, perhaps masochistic variety that he des­ making a good profit too! I can see the advantages of OZ with good reason, and even though cribes I'd burn m y chopsticks in Grant publishing criticisms of the more the revolutionary working class protest. extreme aspects of dietary th in k­ don't much like hippies, you'll Sure there are people who wrap ing, especially if it leads to a more Dear Sewer Rats, have to accept that they'll be the up their own neuroses in a web of constructive set of attitudes about” Returned herewith, No. 42. Put it ones with the power when there's yin and yang and fanatic fantasy; natural foods being reached. But where it belongs, jump down after a successful revolution (and you'd Amadeus's article is an excellent this kind of mindless, destructive, it. And pull the chain. better not sit around grumbling if clinical analysis of the aberration. and hate-filled drivel, even more there's an unsuccessful one) and Anon It's amazing how a person can far-fetched and fanciful than the you'll still be in the same powerless twist anything to fit his particular paranoic ravings of the American Dear O Z, boat wanting "dope, rock'n'roll interpretation of the universe. For Medcal Association, can only serve What are we doing to get and fucking in the streets". That is, example: Amadeus says fruit is to create misunderstandings, re­ tetrahydrocannabinol legalised? unless you decide that the only forbidden in Macrobiotics. Fact: inforce ignorance, and produce chance you have of achieving your Lots of love, George Ohsawa, author of the divisiveness and rigid thinking. own rather limited revolution and H. Ash Illustration: Joshua Thom as basic guidebook, Zen Macrobiotics, surviving it is by helping your advises that you can eat up to 15% more active brothers and sisters to fruits and salads, and up to 45% bring about the real revolution. fruits and salads if you are a veg­ Chris Kemp etarian, and maintain excellent 25 Minver Road, Liverpool health. So why does Amadeus say fruits are forbidden? Perhaps be­ Dear O Z, cause in the case of diets to cure I am sick o f opening O Z and seeing severe sickness, fruits are fre­ letters from people complaining quently excluded. Most macro­ about the standard of your mag. biotics enjoy fruit freely and These people are talking out the regularly, especially in season. back of their arses. I th ink that Most of Amadeus' article reflects every time a new OZ comes out it the masturbatory attitude to food is better than ever. So come on all of people with heavy oral retentive you so-called OZ friends, write in problems and nothing to do with and let's see a word o f praise for their time. So they sit around play­ a change, for the best fuckin' mag ing w ith their food throughout ever. their waking day. The vast m ajority S. Fletcher, of Macrobiotics understand food Bedford. is an im portant aspect o f their lives and take sensible steps to ensure that their food is of as good a Dear OZ, quality as possible. But they spend At last one of your correspondents, by far the greater part of their time Warren Hague, has kicked all this living — actively working, creating political shit right up the arse. His or whatever, but not wandering off article (OZ 42) really puts the to Japan or wherever seeking satori Left in its proper position. We in a bowl of rice. anarchists (the real freaks) all know that the Right are real pigs Please Amadeus. The idea of Macro­ but they do show their piggishness. biotics is to kick habits: tobacco, The so-called "libertarian Left" alcohol, w hite sugar, drugs, and however, are far more underhand. compulsive eating. Where you get1 These cunts really believe in the the idea that macrobiotics is a way same doctrine as the Right, but to take junk without tears is a deliberately con people by their wonder to me. Don't believe every­ superfluous skin-deep 'libertarian­ thing that people tell you, even ism' to stop them joining real junkies. Illustration: Peter T ill E H T F O M E l l f H T K H U T G I I L I W T Garth Murphy Garth I am a machman .... ” .... machman a machine. am a I with intercourse had has A machman is a human being who being human a is machman A

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y forever? Men and sardines surviving. My Perhaps men will not be able to part with awareness of their world in every detail, father’s work is to answer these questions their machines. Must we be destroyed and conscious interaction with it aimed of balance, and there has been no escape to free the universe of machines? at survival for all, including trees, rocks, for me from the fact that the population There are too many of us to survive lakes and sky. of men is part of this chain, and that the without machines. I consider the possibility condition of man and the condition of of getting it together with machines and American indians have been close also in earth are inseparable. people and stumble every time on the balance with their world. They too were men who must make the machines, pump the few in numbers and conscious preservers Because nothing eats us, we have no oil and build the roads. The sweat and pain of all,things. Only on a hunting and population controls. We have forgotten and boredom of doing the same thing over gathering level is man in harmony with for long periods of time that we are and over and over for no known reason other earth, his body, the universe. Only then is within the balance. We have destroyed than to get the money to buy the food the he fulfilling his highest destiny. Do you the game so we must fence the lands and machines made. The food is shitty; the remember the Noble Savage discovered by grow great herds of ignorant beasts to feed ma chine men are not high. They are America’s first settlers? Indian life and on. making the wars busts laws prisons smog highness inspired by the American concrete capitalism. revolution, constitution, and the French We have grown in numbers until we have revolution. Europeans living as the indians to clear and fence the land for intensive We must reduce population, free ourselves did were the highest white men in the farming, dam the rivers and dig new from machine enslavement, free the earth world. They were primitive hunters and ones and build railroads and trucks and from enslavement to our machines. gatherers. It was so good that millions of ships in factories and dig the ores and Engines are our death grip on mother Europeans came to feel it . . . and pump the oil to feed the engines made of earth. Without them she is our equal. Can smothered the land with their numbers. the ores to run the factories to build the you stand it? Weaned from your metal And built machines to kill the indians to machines to get the food to survive. And we mothers? List them in your mind and feel get the land to grow the food to feed fight wars among ourselves over who will your attachment. their cities. And imported slaves to get the oil and fence what land and mine work the land to clothe their numbers. And what ores and produce what food to A machman is a human being who has built machines to fight a war to free the survive. intercourse with a machine. When the slaves who, the indians taught them, machines are gone, the machmen will be were their equals. And built more Men sweat in the factories to make the gone and all living things will be high. machines to work the land to feed the machines to fight the wars to win the ores freed slaves so that they would not have to make the machines to run the farms to So I’m slowly unravelling myself from to give them land. And, slaves to their get the food to survive. And they’re not my machines. I want to feel how high it numbers, became slaves to their high. can be. It means relearning the use of the machines. human body in providing for itself, in Men sweat in the white shirts and ties, amusing itself, in getting itself high. It is We have no need for killing, for top hats and overcoats to run the countries learning lost skills, it is learning to live. slavery or machinery. We could take that run the factories that make the I can see that work is hard without populatibn back to a balanced level if machines to win the wars and get the goods machines if food must be grown. I can we wanted to. Let us do it or be miserable to make the machines to get the food see that the land cannot support too machmen until our end. Machmen bred to survive. And they’re not high. many people per square mile without to machwomen will give birth to full oil machines. If food is not cultivated, if it is blooded machines in five generations. Machines are the lowest form of life in hunted and gathered, there must be even the universe. They are destroyers. fewer people in relation to area of earth My grandfather was a machmen. My Machine guns. They are only 200 years old. and population of other animals and father is a machman. I am a machman. I They were made by men and will exist plants. It feels that the fewer the human want to be the last machman in my line. only as long as men let them exist. When beings, the easier it is to survive, and the the machines are gone, the machine men higher the life on all levels. How far back do we have to go. All the will be gone, and all human beings will be way to the death of the last internal high. The Australian aboriginals, said to be combustion engine and the rusting away the lowest people on earth, appear (from of the last rifled gun barrel. To the readings) to have been among the highest. destruction of hydroelectric plants, oil There was never question in their minds refineries, nuclear generators. To the as to whether their way of life of the closing of the last factory door, to way of the white invaders was higher. concrete crumbled to dust, to grass They lived in Australia for 40,000 years without farming, or building permanent houses. Their life was growing where once roads ran, to trees nourished by crumbled cities. We have to go back to a minimal population.

Then I will cut trees to build a strong boat and sail to an old land where occasionally I stumbel upon the remains of a lost civilisation. Where in places the concrete roads can still be seen; in deserts dry air has preserved long defunct metal machines. Where huge and ancient redwood trees show the scars of chain saws from the age of machmen.

As I continue my journey into the less inhabited interior and further into rugged mountains, I find posts still standing from forgotten fences. I travel in a bark canoe through a mountain in a tunnel that natives tell me the machmen built to carry water to distant dry areas to grow more food to feed more men to make more machines. We laugh, stroke, laugh, beach canoe on a sandspit to camp. Under night’s blanket stories flicker round a fire, and I am told that the place where we camp was once nine hundred feet under water. One man points high up a jagged canyon wall, "there was the shoreline of a great lake dammed by the machmen to produce power to run their OZ 30 — (October 1970): Fun, Travel & Ad­ machines.” I am not sure but I heard of venture OZ. New from around the Global High such things: I nod, heads shake, hmms To mail off for your back issues Street. O Z up the Khyber Pass and Cold Turkey. vibrate. 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Up for grabs as we went to press was the first A date has not yet been set for the trial of the When a high-ranking member of the Post Office issue of 'Gay News', the national fortnightly Nasty Tales 4, although an announcement is was asked by a staff member of OZ over the homosexual newspaper. Cliff Richard made a expected shortly confirming that it will be some telephone on what authority the envelopes had convincing hetrosexual-of-the-month and there time in August. In a hopelessly transparent been opened in the first place prior to mailing was some fine reporting on the intrigues of attempt to 'play down' the first obscenity rap them, the only excuse he had to offer was that Jimmy Saville's 'Speakeasy' programme on against the underground press since the OZ trial the GPO are duty bound to search any parcels, homosexual behaviour. Other worthwhile last June, the authorities have opted to hold this packets or envelopes that might possibly contain features included a medically sound, if some­ trial during the Inner London Sessions at the drugs! what moralistic run down on homosexuals Newington Causeway Crown Court, Elephant And so, to recap on this farcical black comedy and venereal disease and a snappy guide to gay and Castle. we have the following trail of astounding events: action north of the border. But we could have Mick Farren, Joy Farren, Edward Barker 1) OZ is published and appears openly on the done without that tongue in cheek story on the and Paul Lewis, together with their Limited streets of Britain. 2) It is sold in tens of thousands Biograph — it smacked far too heavily of those Company have each been charged under Section to readers from Lands End to John O'Groats. sad old gay magazines which managed to fill 2 (1) of the Obscene Publications Act 1 959 as 3) No-one complains to the police or to OZ mag­ twenty or so pages with coy innuendo and not amended by Sect 1 (1) of the 1964 Act. The azine. 4) Copies are sealed in brown, plain en­ mention the word homosexual once. committal proceedings were concluded last velopes. 5) OZ pays the postage and mails them. Newswise and generally though. Gay News May 15th at Marlborough Magistrates Court. 6) The GPO opens the envelopes "...to search for is essential gay reading, and its small ads show Mick Farren and Paul Lewis are understood to drugs..." 7) A member of this search force is a healthy disrespect for the pathetic House of be preparing to defend themselves. offended or (more realistically) confused by the Lord's decision over the I.T. appeal last month. The prosecution's case is thought to rest contents. 8) He passes it on to his superior. Gay News is located at 19 London St., London, simply on evidence of children having bought 9) His superior passes it up the line to head office. W.2. Tel: 01-402 7805. and read a copy of the issue of Nasty Tales in 10) The hypocritical bigots and narrow-minded *** question. It's gratifying to note that the Nasty bureacrats at HQ send copies to the Director of Tales crew have not been charged with a con­ Public Prosecutions. 11) The DPP's office has an Rumours that George Lennox is of Jewish stock spiracy of any kind. But then, conspiracy to unwanted prosecution on its hands. 12) It all must now be discounted following the amusing produce a comic book what jury would costs you, the taxpayers who support both the exposure of his diminutive and uncircumcised ever have worn that one! GPO and the DPP, more money. organ at the Alice Cooper press reception in Nasty Tales needs your help and support. Chessington Zoo recently. George, (ex 7 Days Please send anything you can afford to At the root of this problem is the notorious token hippy and currently earning a crust as Nasty Tale's Defense Fund: Post Office Act. This allows the Post Office to Drop Out Dave's errand boy for the notoriously 11b Wardour Mews, W.1. virtually censor printed material that cannot be inaccurate Private Eye column), took it upon attacked by any other existing law. There is no himself to discard his battered Y-fronts and *** space here to go fully into the idiosyncracies of Levis during the stripper's routine under the the Post Office Act; that would take two or three 'big top'. Amidst general audience hilarity and pages, at least, of boring and intricate copy. aided and encouraged by Miss Stacia from Hawkwind, her voluminous naked breasts As some of you will have doubtless road in All we wish to make clear at this stage is this: dancing erotically under his nose, George The Guardian, Mike Topuzogou, commonly 1) Somehow, someway, we will get your copies shuffled and waltzed drunkenly for several laps known as 'Greek Mike' from the Frendz collec­ to yo u . of the sawdust circus ring. tive has been sitting for several weeks in 2) We ore not rip-off artists - it takes time and *** Pentonville deportee wing. Currently he is it takes effort. Trust us for a little while. awaiting deportation to Turkey where he faces 3) To the GPO and to the Director of Public "The Defense of Literature and the Arts Society a prison sentence for refusing to serve in the Prosecutions: Perhaps you feel that we are tired (DLAS) exists to combat censorship on moral, Turkish Army. He is in solitary confinement, after last year's dress rehearsal. Perhaps you feel political or other grounds and to uphold free­ his mail has been torn up and his books refused that we must be demoralised at the prosecution dom of expression." Well, that's what it says on him. He is also being forced to wear identifica­ of IT. Perhaps you are hoping that, by now, this sheet of roneod paper and who are we to tion patches on his prison uniform to mark him public sympathy and support has drained away. disagree. Those of you wishing to plunge further as a dangerous and/or absconding prisoner. Be warned. Every one of these assumptions is into the sordid intricacies of our moral pollu­ And the crime that Michael has commlted false. OZ Magazine and every other member of tion laws could do much worse than write for to find himself in this position? It is as simple the British alternative press will fight this legis­ further information to DLAS, 18 Brewer St., as it is absurd. He has been found guilty of being lation. We will fight it hard. We will kill this London, W1R 4AS. an alien. Act. Enough! Ever since the modification of Robert Carr's The Stoke Newington 8 have pleaded not guilty kitchen by that well known group of demolition to all the one thousand odd pages of the prosec­ experts, 'The Angry Brigade', the hornets' nest ution case. Three defendants, John Barker, Anna of capitalist revenge has been let loose in a con­ Mendelson and Hilary are defending them­ tinual spate of police raids searching for "...likely selves and attacking the charges with courageous candidates for an outrage..." resolution. Establishment'experts' in explosives and chemistry have been accused of prosecution We know that Scotland Yard were given the bias in manufacturing a pattern of 25 bombings, green light to "turn London over" resulting in which the state claims is the basis of the conspir­ the blatant framing of Purdie and Prescott, acy (from 1967 through August 1971). Conven­ which, predictably enough, failed to stop the iently, all recent bombings since the SN8's arrest political bombings. Months later, they busted have not been included. One 'expert', called a six well known militants at Stoke Newington, liar by a defense lawyer, recoiled in horror, de­ which still didn't stop attacks on ruling class claring that he could find no words suitable for property — and so they arrested four more the court to express the profound shock he felt people (while the bombings still continue...). at his scientific integrity being challenged. We all know the results of the Jake and Ian trial, Since 1902, any defendant can be convicted on a in which the jury made it absolutely clear that conspiracy count on his or her own, with others they could not accept the police 'conspiracy' who are dead (watch out Guy Fawkes), unknown theory, although one might be forgiven for think­ or awaiting trial. If the state is desperate for a ing so in the light of the outrageous sentences conviction, a conspiracy charge is a convenient meted out by Judge favourite (remember Chicago or Angela Davis or Similarly, the same conspiracy rap was dropped even the OZ trio). And we can be sure that the against Pauline Conroy and Chris Allen, the judge has already worked out exemplary senten­ Attorney General refusing permission to proceed ces for the Stoke Newington 8. A launching party for 'Spare Rib' held at The with the charges, leaving the Stoke Newington The unknown factor is the jury. Everything in a Place in Duke Street last month was violently 8, who have already been convicted in their court can be fixed, everything can be 'arranged', disrupted by the hostile invasion of a small but absence at the Purdie/Prescott trial. everything a foregone conclusion apart from the verbose group of gay 'liberationists'. Attired in No-one should be fooled by 'fair trial' bullshit in 12 good men and true. It is a working class jury what they prefer to call 'gender-fuck' drag, this this case. These eight people, whether they are and all 12 have answered defence questions on chummy little gang of bovver-boys descended Angries or not, were convicted by the State at political prejudice. It's no accident that Robert uninvited and unannounced on an already over­ the moment of their arrest: convicted not for Mark (the new head of Scotland Yard) has crowded and confused situation. Chaos sub­ any injury or crime against the majority interests expressed so much concern over juries in past sequently ensued. One especially loudmouthed of Britain, but merely for daring to launch polit­ weeks. The only factor that the state cannot and heavily tinselled young 'radical feminist' ical attacks against the state. control in a courtroom in Britain is the exper­ promptly proceeded to rip and mutilate three ience of 1 2 'ordinary' people, which may run dozen copies of the first issue of 'Rib', scattering The police and the courts have a cynical lack of counter to the lies, corruption and legal rubbish the torn remnants over astonished onlookers perspective about the use of violence in all crim­ which is the basis of British justice. In spite of with cries of "sexist rubbish... sexist rubbish!" inal matters... fascists mutilate black people with everything, we still have juries, and the Stoke firebombs — they don't get charged with serious Newington 8 retain their hopes of an eventual Attempts by Rosie Boycott and other members offences. If Robert Carr had actually been shot a cq u ittal. of 'Spare Rib' to engage this miserable crew of or even disembowelled, Prescott could only have psychedelic fascists in any meaningful discussion received a maximum sentence of ten years (under Ned Kelley. of their criticisms of the magazine were sneer- the section 4 of the 'Offences Against the Person All offers of help or donations to: The Stoke ingly rebuffed, with hysterical chants Act, 1861'). With ultra-violent gangsters, the Newington 8 Defence Group, c/o Compendium of "sexism... sexism... Stamp Out Sexism..." Ges police do out of court deals; with the 'Angry Cox, the distribution and payroll manager of IT Bookshop, 240 Camden High Street, NW1. Brigade', who injure nothing except property, had his face scratched and cut following a less they launch a "PUBLIC ENEMY No. 1" than sensitive use of vocabulary on his part investigation. *** during one mutual slanging match: "You CUNT..." he yelled. The first in a series of "You sexist PIG..." they screamed. iS/S'7fe N O S l^ S T CARD famous last postcards: Chris Rowley, OZ's vegetarian advertising man­ ager tried a different tack. Leaning forward in a belated conciliatory gesture he attempted to “ This kiss one of the enraged homosexuals. Right now Is the m ost b eautifu l he still has a chunk of his top lip missing. i t place. Peace, tropical *** t w v b f sunshine, coconuts and = O N l> / __ pineapples need only On the publication day of Spare Rib, W.H. Smith £ I . t/wiU vcki to be picked. No cold — and Sons, those well-known purveyors of healthy no parking meters — family literature, rang the Rib office to cancel : i , i\Jo pa^ / mS- tele — Bingo. Hakim their order. No reason of any substance was . just founded first offered. One short week later, on the 28th June, s H A p h jitC T f b u aJCEL publishing company. they rang back to revise their revised Most exciting venture cancellation. you can imagine. 'Public demand' for the new women's monthly We often remember kCTOMG- h-icu C t i e and smile — Gail suggested that an initial order of 1 5,000 copies * 1 0 U CAA) might be appropriate. Well, that's 15,000 OU CAN lHftGrcA/% Benson." 8th Nov. 1971 more copies than those scheming, monopolistic, U o r s / > 0 K j u j - S (Those of you unsure evil little bastards will ever get their hands on Wi Of Gail's id e n tity please from this publication. Stand up the woman who CftlL. £tNSON turn to the Michael said "sour grapes". V.. X feature in this issue)

As many of you will know, OZ has agreed to pay "substantial" damages to Mr. Robert Goldie Butler, 54, a school teacher referred to In an article published In OZ 28, the Schoolklds Issue. On Friday, June 29th., the High Court was in­ formed that OZ Publications Ink Ltd. and Mr. Butler had reached an- out of court settlement, and that in adddltlon to the aforementioned damages, OZ magazine had also agreed to pay all of Mr. Butler's legal fees. We also unreservedly withdrew any imputations made knowingly or unknowingly against him in that article. For obvious reasons, the matter is now closed. We hold no malice or resentment against Mr. Butler, and we would sincerely like to reiterate the statement made on our behalf to the High Court, and to thank Mr. Butler for giving us time to pay the legal fees. Which brings us to another point, of which you who have been following this case will probably not be aware. Although the sum of money which Is to be paid to Mr. Butler Is, Indeed, "sub­ stantial", the total legal costs incurred could perhaps best be described as "astronomical". It Is, perhaps, a sad measure o f justice in B ritain today that the 'sllce-of-the-pie' (If we might use a crude expression) that Mr. Butler will receive, compared to the total amount of money which will leave our bank Is only one sixth. We have met hip lawyers and we've met pigs. We've met long-haired, sympathetic and marijuana- smoking lawyers. We've met lawyers who Yhls delightful portrait of an octopus sucklngi off a fisherman’s wife cost the Sunday Times cursed the magistrate and lawyers who shook thousands of pounds recently. The whole magazine had to be reptlnted when the S.T.’s our hand and 'believed In our case’. But now management got cold feet at the last minute we come to think of It, we've never met a poor lawyer. There's a moral there somewhere. ) Post- Scarcity Anarchism Would the anonymous artist who painted this masterpiece please contact OZ or the Hackney Woman's Liberation Group giving the illusion o f substantiality apd practicality —is practicality apd substantiality f o illusion the giving practical reality can be appreciated, tactical debate —although debate from ote tactical rem remains appreciated, be which can reality speculation vapid practical avoid to desire means remains useless. And once the question o f ends is ends f o question the once And useless. remains means eovd sltost “rcia”polm flo Wie the While . follow problems “practical” to ends: f solutions o resolved, question the to pre­ attention been little has in devoted has engaged has ent ent ovem m ovem tactical m the purely the at “theory” ent. arrested little been movem has the thought subverts ent, ovem constantly m and from infects large at intuitions these society prevents course. repeatedly then perverted a What follow will ents developm social realms. Unless these basically correct intuitions are intuitions correct basically these Unless realms. social uie fi de nthv rprtertcl foundation. theoretical proper a have not does it if futile ni ufcetcaiyeit bu ns l cnieainof o consideration all ends, about exists clarity The sufficient means. f Until o question What pragmatic the theory. for with regard little occupied had has and life, levels, towards strategic and attitude the f o pragmatic basically a consciousness false Inheriting The consciousness? achieving current that possible is it narrowly consciousness, the to the transcend that brought must intuition revolution deeper even American an the f o indicate turn, scope in a however, intuitions, exist, to s seem There care felt. child That only m com is so intuitions. revolution inchoate consciousness, than f o more levels little low on on rests based were “politics” with “political” and fully encompass the cultural, psychological and psychological cultural, the encompass fully These and f o help. “political” little mainstream Tne provides f life. f o o certainly quality significance theory the radical improve revolutionary to traditional the American the impulses explain f o to these ponents inability com general often essential are counter-culture foods the health with and experiences counter­ identification earlier the their to present as their just turning are But radicals alternative. impoverished, an Many as pletely culture co-ops. com food and politics groups en’s om w unes, m com hteaty s o eacmpihd y nA rcn revolution? erican Am an by plished accom be to is exactly What over­ and clinics, free as below such from life projects create everyday through f o relations, substance alienation social real control e Its gain com transform trappings. to unity, m pt com superficial attem ost counter­ the m in The its lies only are anyone. by these unanticipated rate a at spreading idn al lf smoe n ciit swelad oe ent movem and ell w as activists ent ovem m as life daily finding clothing, and drugs rock, f o world the was includes only counter-culture ;the not the from ciety culture so role, emerging American f an historical o f o spontaneously authentic because was conditions its from process declining ent was another ent detachm ovem m increasing made political the sectarianism While f fragile o the f o Once experience great. brutal execution f too the o was stay a cost expired, the itself reprieve But by won years. perhaps several and unconsciousness f o revolutions, limits the reached ent ovem m the design, h n inevitable. end the origins, n ow its f o conditions the erratic from be to emerge to likely is had ent intuition ovem m on exclusively based practice o f itself at that point, it resurrected the theories o f past f o theories the understanding resurrected it authentic an point, creating that than at Rather itself f o Sixties. late the the by required theory a the ehow society; som But American transform ineffectual. to and and sufficed Thirties have the f o would —those Sixties theories archaic by replaced were o e motd rm oeg iutos Inrn l s by ost alm could Ignorant It situations. experience. foreign American from the f o imported be uniqueness not the notably h nw et eaeod hnisbsclysud intuitions sound basically its when old became left new The h Tid No ta teitiin h al ad middle and early the f o intuitions the that ot N . Third the ol htbo rvesMra Boci’ new Anarchism’. Bookchin’s 'Post-scarcity Murray reviews book, Whitebook Joel unprincipled chauvinist lackeys. chauvinist unprincipled Smash the state-capitalist Stalinist butchers Stalinist state-capitalist the Smash the totalitarian neo-Marxist bureaucrats and their and bureaucrats neo-Marxist totalitarian the and their whining philistine running dogs. Obliterate dogs. running philistine whining their and

ifrnitn isl rm aue—i de o ae the have not does — it nature from itself differentiating itself as part o f nature. In primitive society the world does world f o the conceives society —also primitive In nature. consciousness f o part infantile as f o its itself and unity nature primordial with integration its social by each f o characterized relationship primarily the investigating ithout w ent developm nleae i tewrd Ulk h iiie” mind. and e hom at civilized” “ ore m the much Unlike feels world. the primitive in The unalienated society. “civilized” and hierarchical or , is as unism comm socialism, and and society capitalism f o propertied borderline the on not stands not have the quality o f otherness which it assumes in assumes it which otherness f o quality the have not while self, or ego, is primitive The society unity. primitive internal Briefly, remarkable relationship. that by engendered if revolution, American the f see, o shall e w borderline As the on society. but classless Left, the by believed usually from f o one history f o on dialectic Elaborating —the States. insights United the f profoundest o Marx’s position social com m unism — Bookchin maintains that the United States (and States United the that maintains —Bookchin unism m com Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Post-Scarcity Post-Scarcity form to the natural world and the type o f consciousness f o type the and broad this ent world natural understand developm the not to higher a will form to primitive we from then society , moves unism m properties dialectic com f o through historical the communism that frontier. true that is it cross If must success, a be to is it the advanced capitalist world o f which it is the cornerstone) the is it which f o to world capitalist society advanced propertied the through unism unique m the com is primitive analysis ookchin’s hand. B at for departure possibilities f o point revolutionary The the to appropriate is which carried be revolution the ill w achieved be to goals the with whelming extent, this tim idity o f vision has been the problem the been has vision f o idity tim this extent, whelming with regressive ideologies and thereby distorted. thereby and ideologies regressive with theories with utopianism and ecology into a coherent perspective coherent a into revolutionary ecology Bookchin and traditional vision. and utopianism with scope synthesize ost and theories utm the transcend to with tries thinking creative offers revolution plete ecological incom when an age us, an In before s fruition. ensurate m loom com is plete com apocalypse its practice to through revolutionary when Only possibilities. differentiate the revolution revolution the differentiate contained has ent ovem m the over­ or an Although To ent. while. ovem psychological m their and the the worth make with or imaginations the latter revolution people f the o the capture In f risks o to fail. fails needs physical will the simply body possibilities em Russian revolution a the the historical e for its case, f o becom — apology has short an as sights socialism (largely German created —e.g. Left it have the not f o circumscribe could truism that revolts peasant conditions material the and its degree o f success rests on its consciousness o f those f o history n ow consciousness its its on makes rests it which success f f o o out degree its and possibilities historical l rvosmdl frrvlto rcial ueesad demand and render useless practically conditions new revolution for to qualitatively as models Such it. previous magnitude all such preceded f o have that possibilities revolution, American nhsatcly lo h pbiainofMra Bookchin’s Murray f o should years publication several the past e the f elcom o w oralization dem enthusiastically and confusion Freedom Human and bined com e Revolution becom The inevitably have they ents, elem visionary vr eeain eouinre eevsa eti e f o set certain a receives revolutionaries f o generation Every vlto) I i qal tu hta eouinwih es its sets which revolution a that true equally is It by evolution). R ited lim are possibilities revolution’s a That solutions. no nti cntx,rdcl ohv be xeinig the experiencing been have ho w radicals text, con this In sasneoftepsiiiispsd y the by posed possibilities the f o sense a is o hteegs rmaraigof o reading a from emerges what For

n kind in from all those revolutions those all from

17 Eunuchs of the world unite! — You have nothing to lose.

primitive consciousness does not conceive of the world as an increasingly left unfulfilled. The increased division of labour inanimate”, “empty” object, but as a subject, “ redolent which is necessary both for the conquest of nature and for with life!’ The natural world “is experienced as life confronting more profitable production, creates a rigid social hierarchy and life involving every faculty of man in reciprocal relationships.” class society. Since the natural world is experienced as a living subject, to which the primitive is reciprocally related, rather than as an Estranged from nature and society, the ego eventually inanimate object, nature has its own integrity which cannot becomes alienated from itself. The regimentation of society and be violated. The notion of dominatiing or exploiting the toil required for the domination of nature demands repression natural world is foreign to the primitive, and, as we shall see, of the instincts on the part of the individual. The self becomes this tends to place him or her at nature’s mercy. opposed to its innermost desires. As the division of labour becomes more specialized, toil becomes more tedious and The relationship between the primitive self and society demands more repression, thereby ending whatever libidinal exhibits a similar reciprocity and cohesion. The individual does satisfaction work previously provided. Compared with medieval not experience himself or herself as opposed to the collective, crafts, work on the modern assembly line is totally de­ but relies on the community as the only context in which to eroticized (except perhaps for its sadistic component). The actualize himself or herself. The community, rather than delayed gratification ana repressive sublimation offered in limiting the development of the individual, is felt to nurture it. recompense for toil leaves instinctual needs totally unsatisfied. The collective, in turn , is able to respect the autonomy of In addition to the collective psychosis of contemporary each individual because of a religious belief in the necessity society, with its ugliness, destruction and violence, we can of diversity within the order of the cosmos. As Dorothy Lee trace the impoverishment of daily life suffered by all of us to explains in terms of the Hopi: this repression of our erotic desires. Human society is part of a larger structured whole, so an individual cooperates with even more that the members of hiB' Only in a few specific human activities, art and play for human group. Every aspect of nature, plants, and rocks and example, do we gain a glimpse of true human needs. For in animals, colours, cardinal directions and numbers and sex these particular activities the repressed material returns, albeit distinctions, the dead and the living, all have a cooperative share in a highly sublimated form, and provides an indication of the in the maintenance of the universal order. Eventually, the nature of a world constructed to satisfy true human needs. effort of the Hopi individual affects the balance of nature; and Both of these activities represent an attempt to transcend the as each individual develops his inner potential, as he external restriction of a repressive reality principle, a yearning enhances his participation, so does the entire universe become towards freedom. As Marcuse explains in nis discussion of invigorated. Not his behavior alone, not his achievement, but Schiller, “the play impulse does not aim at playing with his entire unique being is significant. ‘something’; rather it is the the play of life itself, beyond want and external compulsion — the manifestation of freedom itself.” This commitment to diversity allows social differentiation to A world based on the play principle presupposes the achievement exist without the development of rigid hierarchy. For example, of a post-scarcity situation, for “only when the ‘contraint of a chief or priest might possess specialized knowledge which he need is replaced by the “constraint of superfluity’ (abundance) employs for the good of the community, but he does not use will the human existence by empelled to a ‘free movement it to gain personal power. An individual might consult the which is itself both end and means’. Liberated from'the priest for information, much as one might consult a reference pressure of painful purposes and performances necessitated book, without being bound to follow the recommendation. Thus, by want, man will be restored into the ‘freedom to be what he in primitive society, there is room for a division of social ought to be.’ But what ‘ought’ to be will be freedom itself: roles without the domination of individuals or the development the freedom to play.” Communism will be constructed ■ of hierarchy which accompanies it in propertied society. In fact, according to the laws of pleasure, play and beauty (which very di versity is respected as an end in itself. well might be one and the same): in a genuinely human civil­ ization, the human existence will be play rather than toil.” But the foundations of the unalienated societies were precarious, for contained within the primitive’s many-sided relationship with The whole barbarous development of hierarchical society has nature was the element of threat as well as of promise. We see its “redemptive dialectic.” At an incalculable cost to nature this most clearly in mythology, where nature appears both as and humanity, propertied society, in its passage through the loving mother and the terrible mother, as the nurturer and feudalism and capitalism, has developed the material and the destroyer. Ultimately, the constant threat of nature’s intellectual productive forces to the point where scarcity destructiveness undermined the stability of primitive society. A can be over come and propertied society itself transcended. society that has not overcome material scarcity — and this The “conquest of nature” has not only been completed; it includes all societies that have thus far existed — is inherently has gone entirely too far. T h u s , the tortured development of unstable. The insecurity created in each individual by scarcity propertied society has brought us to the point where is the germ of that society’s eventual destruction. domination and hierarchy as such can ana must be ended, where the self can be reharmonized with nature, society and itself. We have been brought, in other words, to the threshold of The insecurity engendered by material scarcity leads to the com m unism . acquisition of property as an attempted insulation from the natural world. The same insecurity, moreover, leads to the Since much of the movement’s confusion has resulted from struggle to pacify nature. The conquest of nature fundamentally the graftjpg of anachronistic elements of socialism onto the alters man’s relationship to nature and man’s relationship to American scene, we must consider the socialist project both man. A prerequisite for the domination of the natural world is as it was conceived theoretically and as it has developed the estrangement of the ego from nature, for only an atomized historically. Theoretically, socialism, it was supposed, would and alienated ego can think of conquering nature. Indeed, create the material pre-conditions for communism by means of only such an ego is capable of the conquest. The natural world — economic planning, a nationalized industry, and the ana this includes humanity’s natural instincts — assumes a maximum development of the productive forces. Needless to hostile otherness which must be subdued and controlled by say, this was not communism itself. Socialism, in effect, the estranged ego, for this otherness poses a threat to the remains within the framework of hierarchical society, within very survival of the individual. To accomplish this conquest, the realm of necessity. The socialist project was conceived thought becomes less mythic and increasingly instrumentalist. during the early period of the industrial revolution. It was The “logic of domination”, as Marcuse has called it, while believed that socialism would have to complete the “conquest enabling science and technology to progress, has taken a of nature” begun by capitalism. There is thus great continuity frightening toll of the natural world whose magnitude we are between the historical tasks of capitalism and socialism. In only becoming fully aware of today. The ego now reduces the that these tasks shape consciousness, socialist values and world to pure object, to be dominated and exploited without the socialist psyche more closely resemble those of bourgeois restraint. society than communism. A corresponding destructiveness occurs in the social realm. Just as the integration of the ego and nature dissolves, so the The theoretical conception of socialism’s historical cohestion of the primitive community, “united by kinship ties tasks does not include the liberation of the individual. The and common interests in dealing with the means of life,” primary determinant of the quality of life remains (Bookchin, p.9) disintegrates into the war of all against all. economic, not the transcendence of economics into freedom. The individual no longer views the society as the matrix of The individual under socialism, compelled to devote a his or her actualization, but now sees it as an obstacle that substantial amount of his or her life to toil, is unable to places ever greater limits on his or her freedom and ever greater develop his or her human potentials to their fullest. Cutting demands on his or her life. As production becomes increasingly cane or working in a machine tool factory remains toil. geared to exchange rather than use, human needs are Regardless of whom it is for, it deforms the human spirit. Chained to the exigencies of commodity production, socialist society is organized according to the abstract laws of economics rather than the demands of human satisfaction and aesthetic delight. Socialist society, bound to the concept of efficiency, is arranged hierarchically —although it is doubtful that hierarchy is even efficient for the purposes of socialist production. Hierarchy, with its differential status and power, denies the individual full control over his or her daily life. Socialism, at least theoretically, alleviates the grosser injustices of capitalism. The survival necessities of fife such as food, medicine and clothing are readily available * $ $ * ■ and equitably distributed. At best, however, socialism attains a high degree of social justice, not of human freedom. For under socialism the concrete, existential, psychological individual does not control his or her daily life, and lacks the faculties or free time to cultivate his or her potentialities without external restraint. If the theoretical conception of socialism entails a very limited vision of human actualization, the situation has been further exacerbated historically by the occurrence of “socialist” revolutions solely in underdeveloped countries. These revolutions have been primarily peasant revolutions which have occurred in under developed, feudal societies. They are not “proletarian revolutions” in industrialized, capitalist countries. Given the material conditions that that produced them

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19 Crush the paper tiger of racist red-imperialism. Destroy the militarist bolshevik exploiters.

and the tasks which have faced them — primitive accumulation, merely “the people”; for ending domination as such not national unification, etc — these revolutions more closely merely its specific forms such as racism, sexism, etc., for resemble classical bourgeois revolutions than socialist ones. transforming sexuality into Eros, not merely liberating sex; The social systems that have developed in these countries can and for creating an aesthetic, not merely a rationalized” best be described as state capitalism. society. No previous revolution has been confronted with these possibilities — and no longer do they remain visionary goals to Undoubtedly where “socialist” regimes have gained power, the be sacrificed to the “pragmatic realities” of revolution. They material lot of the populations have been appreciably improved. have now become the historically necessary conditions for But I cannot accept the notion that the best way to accomplish the perpetuation of human life and an ecologically sound the tasks facing these revolutions is through centralization, planet. hierarchy and the banning of all opposition. On the contrary, I maintain that workers’ control provides such great incentives Possibility, desirability and necessity most clearly converge in that it is not only the most desirable, but also the most practical the question of ecology. And perhaps Bookchin’s most unique means for organizing economic life. I also maintain that the new contribution is his exploration of the revolutionary potential state which is allowed to form, in which opposing points of of ecology both as a critique of hierarchical society and as a view are allowed dissemination will be more creative and guide for the reconstruction of society. If human life is to productive. All opposition is not “objectively counter­ continue on the planet, then the domination of nature revolutionary,” and freedom of speech, is not merely a cannot continue on its present course. And this pillage cannot “bourgeois luxury”. The banning of all opposition be ended through reformist or merely technological measures. indicates only one thing : a fear of the people. Quite the contrary, and end to the domination of nature requires tne healing of the wounds opened by propertied society, “that is no less than the solution of the social question itself. Through Not only do “socialist” revolutions differ greatly from those some dialectical irony today, when the healing of these wounds envisioned by classical theory, but conditions in the advanced becomes a necessity, the means to the solution are for the first capitalist countries are fundamentally different from those time historically present. Tlie very productive power which is that were thought to produce socialist revolution. It was destroying nature also offers the possibility of over-comsing believed that, due to its internal contractictions, capitalism scarcity and removing the psychological motivation for the would collapse at a much earlier level of development and domination of the natural world. A post-scarcity society must that much of the development of technology which has occurred not be confused with a continuation of the abundance presently under capitalism would instead occur under socialism. This is produced in the advanced capitalist world. It means a quantitive what is meant by the “over-ripeness” of capitalism. One reduction in the absoulte number of goods produced as well as reason for this mistake was that Marx, although he considered a qualitative transformation in the type of goods produced. It the possibility of state capitalism, predicated his mature theory means production scaled down to real human needs rather than on a system of laissez-faire capitalism. But capitalism became the inflated, false needs created by commodity relations. And increasingly “statified” and was able to postpone many of its it means an end to complusive consumption as a substitute for most severe crises. Even the technology that Marx studied was human satisfaction. very immature compared with today’s. He studied the coal and steel technology of the industrial revolution, not the miniatur­ A scaled-down, ecological economy therefore requires ized and computerized technology of todky. It is hardly transformation of human needs and values — literally, the surprising that he was unable to foresee much of the development creation of a new sensibility or consciousness. Unable to offer of technology that actually occurred, for “the very idea that a the “satisfaction” of false needs, post-scarcity society can man whose greatest theoretical contributions were made only provide the fulfillment of true human needs. But most of between 1840 and 1880 could ‘foresee’ the entire development us, our minds colonized by propertied society, could not even of capitalism is, on the face of it, utterly preposterous.” begin to appreciate the satisfaction of true needs. Herein lies (Bookchin, p.178). We can see that the core of socialist much of the significance of the counter-culture. It is beginning theory is predicated on a phase of capitalism and on a level of to explore and rediscover such basic human needs as community technology which no.longer exists in the advanced capitalist sensuality. Herein lies the relevance of many of the historical countries. anarchistic and utopian thinkers, such as Charles Fourier.

How does communism differ from socialism? The most Although they did not have the historical means for realizing essential difference is that communism comprises the realm their visions, which we now do, they were among the few of freedom while socialism remains within the realm of necessity. to explore seriously the possibilities of a society constructed to Within the realm of necessity, the individual is forced to satisfy real human needs. Only the satisfaction of these needs exist primarily as a one-sided being, both psychologically without guilt or renunciation can end humanity’s war with and economically. But the achievement of post-scarcity itself and nature. The American revolution must create a society — communism — results in an individual who enjoys consciousness geared not to domination and aggression, but one material security, leisure and means to develop into the well- suited to harmony, reciprocity and pleasure, a truly ecological rounded person envisioned throughout Western philosophy consciousness. With the completion of the pacification of nature from the Greeks through the young Marx. The harsh laws of and the end of the necessity of toil, the self can rediscover the economic necessity are no longer the main determinant of natural world as a source of sustenance and delight, worthy of individual development. Now the individual can develop accord­ cultivation for its own sake. And in the community, the ing to the dictates of pleasure, play and beauty! Perhaps the self can find a playground in which to explore its imaginative, best way to illustrate this by the comment of an American erotic, and aesthetic potentialities. radical who recently returned from China. Asked whether the personal struggles of the Cultural Revolution were actually the same as those of the American movement, she Now, having a very general idea of the possibilities posed by replied that to the extent that the Chinese were trying to the American revolution, we can begin to see how, once we personally transform themselves, it was because “bourgeois possess such a perspective, answers to the more “practical” traits” were impediments to production. The struggles were questions follow. For example, were the movement equipped not being waged primarily for the benefits to the individual. with a minimal degree of consciousness about the historical Under socialism the individual can still be a means for improving situation of the United States, SDS might have avoided its larger abstractions such as the economy or society; under disastrous attempt to form a centralist, Leninist party. Had they communism the individual becomes an end in himself or possessed that consciousness, SDSers would hkve realized that herself. To gear revolutionary practice in this country to the the worker or student or for that matter practically any attainment of socialism, when we must achieve communism member of American society — sick of the hierarchy of the work to survive, to remain within the realm of necessity when “now place or school, was not about to submit to the hierarchy of the the real drama of human life can unfold in all its beauty, party. Disgusted with labour bureaucrats or pompous pedants, harmony, creativity and joy, (Bookchin, p. 169) would be they were about to follow party functionaries; bored with the totally retrogressive. assembly line or classroom, they were not about to tolerate mindless meetings with their contentious debates. We could In the United States, revolutionaries are faced with the need continue the list ad infinitum. But, in general, if it had been for overthrowing hierarchical society, not mererly capitalism; realized that the issues around which people in this country were for creating communism, not merely socialism; for establishing becoming radicalized were alienation, bureaucratism, authoritar­ human freedom, not merely social justice; for re-harmonizing ianism, hierarchy and boredom, then it would have been obvious humanity with nature, rather than completing the “conquest” tiiat they could not be attracted to an organization which was (ie destruction) of nature; for providing everyone with the itself inherently alienating, bureaucratic, authoritarian, right to play, rather than the right to toil; for ending alienation, hierarchical and boring. 20 not merely exploitation; for liberating individuals, not Moreover, if the movement had had more of an historical and theoretical perspective, it would have realized that the Leninist party is primarily a tool for a coup d’etat nota-popular revolution from below. And once again, because of their lack of historical knowledge, most radicals did not realize that there have been many alternative forms of organization and insurrection.

The Leninist party — which is nothing but the socialist state before gaining power — seizes power and runs the society, usually in the name of the people, to accomplish the goals of socialism, a function for which it was supremely tailored. The individual can practically return to work the morning after the insurrection, so to speak, remaining virtually untransformed and his or her own participation in the revolutionary process. In fact, this transformation, riot the insurrection, is the real essence of the revolutionary process. Social justice can be decreed by a central committee, but “freedom . . . cannot be delivered as the “end produce” of a “revolution” — much less a “revolution” achieved by social philistines who are hypnotized by the trappings of authority and power”. (Bookchin, p.167). Freedom must be existentially appropriated by the self-conscious individual.

To those who, depressed by the impasse of the New Left or the recent disappointing behaviour of the Cuban and Chinese Governments as well of that of the Black Panther Party, have retreated from radicalism, we should like to quote from Max Horkheimer. Horkheimer, a founder of the Institute for Social Research, was confronted by a similar situation in OU Germany when the workers’ movement was destroyed in the Thirties: ° l Those intellectuals who fully subordinate themselves to the 0 1 psychological situation of the class which in itself appears to > represent the force for transformation and change, are led to :r* a professional optimism and to the euphoric sensation that they are tied to an immense power. When the latter suffers severs set-backs, many of these same intellectuals face the danger of falling into pessimism and nihilism that would be as unfounded as their optimism was. They cannot bear the fact that in particular periods it happens that the representatives of the most avant-garde, futuristic thought, thought which grasps the historical situation as its roots, are necessarily isolated and forced to rely on themselves.

The New Left, at one time, intuitively grasped the “historic” situatuon as its roots, but, unable to bring those intuitions to consciousness, was subverted by “the tradition of all the dead generations", and could not pursue its authentic role. Today the most “avant-garde” ana “futuristic” elements are unconsciously contained within the counter-culture. The counter-cultures two fold revolutionary importance is the articulation of the dissatisfaction over the quality of life which permeates American society, and the prefiguring of the utopian solutions which are latent in the American productive apparatus. But unless these elements gain consciousness, the counter­ culture may well suffer a fate similar to the movement’s. I would suggest that the way to overcome the current impasse is to turn from the Third World, the Russian Revolution, or wherever we have let our despair carry us, and return to the American terrain to begin creating a radical enlightenment concerning the possibilities facing us. I can think of no better place to begin than with Post-Scarcity Anarchism.

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121 MACHINES OF LOVING BRAG A brief introduction for OZ readers into negative ionisation - the science of organic electronics Ions are electrically charged published in Hungary showed patients reported relief “with treatment for third-degree particles in the atmosphere. that in a negatively jonised monotonous regularity”. burns, has said that in an ion­ Negative ions make you feel atmosphere “defensive” react­ Useful intelligence: ised atmosphere burns dry good. ions to dangerous situations A British firm called Medion quicker, heal faster, and hurt Positive ions can make you are learned significantly faster. make negative ionisers. Their less. What is more, the speed in feel awful. customers, who buy them for Further definition: The positive ion charge in the discriminating between dan­ a variety of reasons, including gerous and safe situations is Ions are electrically charged air can be felt just before a the alleviation of asthma, bron­ also increased in a negatively particles generated variously thunderstorm. The negative chitis, hayfever and headaches, ionised atmosphere. by cosmic rays, radioactive ion charge can be felt after­ report 80 per cent success. elements in the soil, ultra­ wards — when the air is fresh Clinical reports: They also produce an ioniser violet radiation, winds, water­ and fizzy. A doctor in Cologne reported for the motor-car. The electric­ falls, or, as we said, the blow­ The fact of ionisation has been 100 per cent success in treat­ al system of cars apparently ing of sand and dust. You can known almost since the time ing 800 children for whooping makes them a breeding ground even generate a localised field electricity was discovered. cough. Half the children needed for positive ions. The negative of negative ions by running taps The effect of ionisation on only three sessions of one ionisers are said to keep drivers in the bathroom at full force. mood and certain conditions hour each in a public ionisation fresh and alert on long journeys. — respiratory ailments and clinic. A quarter needed up to From an article by a consultant burns among them — has been Ions and breathing: physician: ten sessions. The other quarter No-one is sure w h y there are researched in this century. up to 15. “Tlie extensive professional such remarkable effects on the literature on negative ionisation In a natural, healthy environ­ At the University Catolica, respiratory tract in a negatively- points to the beginning of a new ment, there is usually a balance Argentina, studies in fear and ionised atmosphere. But ex­ medical science through what between positive and negative anxiety used negative ionisat­ periments by Krueger and might be suitably called ‘org­ ions. In some choice places — ion. The research worker treat­ Smith at California University anic electronics.’: The key to on the tops of mountains, by ed patients in sessions lasting have demonstrated w hat this new and revolutionary waterfalls, in the desert when for as little as 15 minutes at a happens. The bronchial tubes approach seems to lie in the the wind whips the sand, and time — and never more than and trachea, or windpipe, are correction of the electrical in some naturally occuring two hours. After 10—20 sittings lined with tiny filaments called tonus of the central nervous micro-climates — negative ions in a negatively-ionised room cilia. The cilia normally maint­ system. When this is accom­ predominate. In these places their symptoms disappeared ain a whip-like motion of about plished, the bodily functions, entirely. Only 20 per cent one tends to feel clean, airy, 900 beats a minute. Together fully equipped to provide competent, optimistic. failed to respond. with mucus, they keep our air balanced and progressive an­ The doctor of a Meissen Pollution produces positive passages free of dust and pollen. tidotes to disease, can operate factory in Eastern Germany ions. Air-conditioning systems Krueger and Smith exposed effectively...... reported that he used negative can produce positive ions. tracheal tissues to negative ions “Drug therapy, wonderful as it ion therapy to help prevent Heavy traffic produces positive and found that the ciliary beat is, has tended to ‘take nature the industrial disease of pneu­ ions. Positive ions make you was speeded up to 1,200 a by force’, by attacking a specific moconiosis. He found that his feel depressed, slow and heavy. minute, and that the mucus organ condition and neglecting patients slept better, had better They may make certain con­ flow was increased. (Doses of appetites, and felt “on top”. the total bodily requirement. ditions, like asthma, worse. According to his report, pat­ positive ions produced the It seems that we are now enter­ ing a new era in which man will Research results: ients were so impressed that reverse effect — the ciliary beat slowed down to 600 a minute make his greatest medical ach­ Two American scientists at they asked whether their friends or less and the flow of mucus Columbus, Ohio, found an and families could come along ievements by learning, in fact, was retarded). increased learning and perfor­ too. In seven months, the to co-operate with nature in a mance ability in rats exposed clinic had outgrown its original new and surprising way.” to ionised air. The effect was purpose as a pneumoconiosis Ionised air seems to have heal­ The effect of ionisation is a more pronounced in older rats institution for employees. The ing properties. Investigations subtle one. Like going to a new than younger ones. doctor now treats bronchial by Medicor in Hungary showed climate for a holiday or cure, it At Milan University, Jordan, asthmatics, chronic bronchitics a 70 per cent reduction in bac­ may take several weeks before Sokoloff and Gualtierotti children with whooping cough teria in a negatively ionised you begin to feel it. found that mice exposed to and even elderly people with test chamber. The science is in its infancy. negative ions required more emphyzema and eczema. Dr. Igho Kornblueh, the ack­ ether for the same level of an­ (Physicians attached to other nowledged authority in aesthesia — and recovered mining companies have follow­ America on the use faster. All the animals in this ed his lead. One of these doct­ o f ionised series showed a marked in­ ors, at the time of this report’s air crease in activity since their publication, had treated 11,000 exposure to ionised air. patients, and said that his Animal experiments recently

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One of the basic differences between you pay the doctor when you are well. active and passive principles are not eastern and western medicine is that You cease to pay him when you become merely an arbitrary division of energy, but eastern medicine, of which acupuncture ill. they are the actual interplay between the elements. All is relative. forms an integral part, is a philosophy of The following information is taken from life as well as a science. The western Japanese Acupuncture by Dr. M. Hash- doctor, like the dentist, is little more than im oto (Liveright Publishing Corporation, THE FIVE ELEMENTS. a technician, a body mechanic, well versed NewYork). Anyone interested in further in repair and spare parts, but knowing All that exists within nature is divided into reading should look at any of the books the Yin and the Yang, but there is a further relatively little about preventative as on acupuncture by Felix Mann. opposed to curative medicine. division according to the five elements, Acupuncture and oriental medical science which are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and The Dutch first introduced Western originated in China about four or five Water. For example, the liver, the gall­ medicine to the east, and in Japan at least, thousand years ago. The most important bladder, the eyes, the nails, tears and acids the physicians of the ancient and classical of the medical classics was called the Nei all are said to be under the first element, school were relegated to a secondary place. Ching or ‘The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of wood. The five elements are not independ­ In China, the effect of Western medicine Internal Medicine’ which is in the form of ent but stand in an intimate correlation to was not so drastic, and now Peking has not questions and answers embracing hygeine, each other, for each element has its only perm itted Mr. Nixon his ridiculous pathology and physiology, as well as opposite and each element governs and is TV junket, but has apparently decided to politics, economics and the arts and in turn governed by another element. Thus enrich us with freely given knowledge of sciences of that day. at one time, they complement and at an- one of its most time honoured and another they oppose each other. valuable discoveries. THE THEORY OF YIN-YANG AND THE FIVE ELEMENTS. James Reston, the journalist, widely pub­ ENERGY AND ITS ESSENCE. licised the extraordinary success of his The Nei Ching said: “The principle of Yin post-operational acupuncture treatment, and Yang is the basic principle of every­ The energy that is integral to the human (he was too chicken to allow the Chinese thing in creation. It is the principle of the body asserts itself as an essence doctors to operate under acupuncture), entire universe. It is the parent of every The mysterious powers of this essence and on television recently I watched deaf change; it is the root and source of life work invisibly and exist within everything and dumb Chinese children being treated and death; it is also found within the within the universe. It is the very cause of with acupuncture needles with most en­ temples of the gods. In order to treat and life itself. In a kidney, for example, it couraging results. The film continued with cure diseases, one must search into their exists as the ‘essence of the kidney’. In an operation on a woman for removal of origin. Heaven was created by an accum­ the circulating blood, it exists as the an ovarian cyst. She lay back, fully con­ ulation of Yang the light element, while ‘essence of the circulating blood’. It is this scious, several needles, electronically Earth was created by an accumulation of essence which sustains the body and causes stimulated, protruding from meridian test Yin, the dark element. Through their inter­ it to move and live. points in her face. She felt no pain at any actions and their functions, Yin and Yang, stage, was able to move freely when the negative and positive principles in HYPERACTIVITY AND HYPO ACTIVITY required, to assist the surgeons, and when nature, are the causes of diseases which the cyst was finally removed, felt only befall those who are in rebellion against These two terms represent polar extremes that a great weight had been taken from the laws of nature, or those who do not of disequilibrium within the body and its her body. conform to them.” organs. If there is a disequilibrium in the energy of an organ, this will manifest it­ The Western anaesthetist for one, will In the human body, the back is Yang, but self either as an abnormal amount of welcome acupuncture. So many middle the chest and abdomen are Yin; man’s energy, or as a deficiency of energy. In aged people seeking surgery on their fail­ spirit is Yin, but his body is Yang. Man’s either case, this will'be reflected in the ing organs, are found to be addicted to viscera are Yin, but certain parts of his nervous system and blood pressure. Any barbiturates, that it is ofetn impossible to digestive system where nutritive and restoration of the organ must follow a find a suitable painkiller to protect them waste matter circulates, such as the colon course of adjustment until either the hyper­ from the terror of the scalpel. Incidentally, and the small intestine, are Yang. Yin activity or the hypoactivity has been it is interesting to note that in the East, exists within Yang and vice versa. The reduced to a normal equilibrium. 26 Illustration: Richard Gallaghe o ne a h oeofte ot from foot the f o sole the at ences m , com odtosoftemrdas follow: the meridians for the f o diseases various the f conditions o ples exam f o to leg the f o surface outer the n dow en, not the meridian is plus or minus. A couple A minus. or or plus is whether f meridian say o to the is not that condition the meridians, by the reflected is Disease the below point a at end to thorax It Kidneys: the f o the near meridian leg The the f test o The outside toe. the second on is the f point o tip the at end en­ m com It Stomach: the f for o point meridian The test The nose. the near point a at at ences m com It Colon: the f o Meridian called photographer Russian A its pulses. and diagnosed be must equilibrium meridians the in energy the depressing The vitality. f o essence the flow which hypo- or hyperactive negative, or positive on h fotofte hrxad bo ­ abdom and thorax the f o front the down nieoftelgaoete ankle. the above leg the f o inside e n h fc;tetaetr descends trajectory the face; the on ces end to neck the the f o over side arm, the the f and o shoulder outside the ounts m follow: ples exam f o meridians, couple a fourteen and are There meridians. essence or energy this shows which aura, high a in photographs 12 taken has the f Kirlian o study a through dis­ located or cause disorder the this, do To or concerned. stimulating towards directed is the therapy or organs the or eta­ m nutrition growth, as ena bolism, with phenom vital relationship such direct in are meridians along pathways the are POINTS. meridians The THEIR AND MERIDIANS THE disease to may resistant or selves them susceptible which be organs with either active, be may which individual the f o overwork. or functions organic f o abuse produced illnesses i.e. effects, external lvce Tets on i lctd n the on located is point test The clavicle. knee. forearm. upper the on is needle the it where from finger index the f o tip the needle acupuncture The . system nervous constitution physical the is there Finally, where it m ounts the length o f the leg and leg the f o length the ounts m it where lwn fo cranpit n these on points certain from human flowing the f o field, electrical frequency an drinking, or eating injudicious f o from product the are through which on causes brought es internal etim som is fear Illness and kidneys. spleen the the damage can affect can grief lesions; thigh and the front o f the abdomen and abdomen the f o front the and thigh pulmonary f o and cause the be anxiety can the affliction; be depression can cardiac a f joy the o liver; be cause can disturbed anger a f o instance, Five cause For the by otions. Em generated stress psychic hemiplegia. the are; organs Fu six The constrictor. neircue hs rs bcueof o because arise — these causes Interior greater f o is Chu minor cold. such a in as results such diseases which intensity lesser DISEASE. OF CAUSE THE systems). ductive SN AD U ORGANS. FU AND TSANG nest, eutn ngae lns uh as such illness graver in resulting intensity, divided are cause and they causes effects exterior adverse for the responsible are ates thejiver, are; organs Tsang six The Yang. not aeois Kn sacniinof o condition a is Kan categories. o tw into Clim­ Perverse Five — The causes Exterior the and bladder the the colon, the intestine, stomach, small the heart bladder, gall the and kidneys lungs, spleen, heart are organs Fu Yin, are organs Tsang r-etr rsiaoy ietv n repro­ and digestive (respiratory, tri-heaters

xrsin utb aeul lsee to listened carefully be must expressions —Liver. otions: Em Five The are easily cry ho w Those stomach. and often ach stom or spleen weak a have who n toeproswh tte aea prop­ a have stutter pause ho w ithout w persons and those much and too speak who persons o f an irritable character w ho like ho w character irritable an f o persons Mucus — Lungs. — Mucus —Liver. Tears Secretions: Five The bladder. —Kidney, Putrid follows: as are and be patient also must These Odours: Five The itted em are or Groans . troubles them have onary already pulm to susceptible sing­ fine with Those song. a hum to love niy oad er ifnto. Those disfunction. heart towards ensity usually arrogant and are likely to suffer to are likely are They and about. arrogant usually persons other order to bladder. —Kidneys, Groaning colon. —Lungs, Crying stomach. —Spleen, Singing ne, riaiiy rslsns, instability restlessness, irritability, Anger, — Kidneys. Saliva —Heart. Sweat colon. —Lungs, Rotten snoring and Yawning kidneys. the from spleen well-conditioned a have voices ing huig sidle i gnrly y those by generally in indulged is Shouting intestine. small —Heart, bladder. Speaking gall Liver, — Shouting f o bladder. gall the innervation and the liver to the relationship direct intestine. small —Heart, tongue Taste, colon. ach. Lung, — stom White —Spleen, Yellow rasofSne a b iety attributed directly be can Sense f o organs colon. —Lungs, nose Smell, yp —Spleen. Lymph stomach. —Spleen, intestine. Frgarant small Heart, — Scorched gallbladder. the — Liver, f o Rancid ination exam an during noted kidneys. the to related also are rm ie n gl badrdsres Those disorders. bladder gall and liver from follows: as are Vocal and Five The Auscultation 2) bladder. gall Liver, — eyes are: Sight, Senses Five The bladder. —Kidney, Black intestine. small —Heart, Red are: on Colours emphasis Five special with patient, f o ance inat­ —exam ethods m main four are There DIAGNOSIS ntne adsae h yssad in stands For eyes the organs. f o body disease a the f o instance, one in Five change the a f to o function the in change bladder. Any —Kidneys, ears Hearing, stomach. —Spleen, lips Tactile, eiinofteSle: Yn aximum). m (Yin Spleen: the f o Meridian h Fv Clusad h Fv ess The Senses. Five the and Colours Five the le—Lvr gl bladder. gall Liver, — Blue pulse and palpation verbal by by taking. and auscultation, interrogation, by sight, by ion ) ih: xmnto i bsd n appear­ on based is Examination Sight: 1) the in dullness sweets, for Craving Minus: eiinofteKdes (i minimum). (Yin Kidneys: the rest. f o and dull, Meridian feels down lie body to desire variable, Appetite Plus: ussad akofpstvt. Uneasy, im­ positivity. f o sexual f lack o and lack pulses will, f o Lack Minus: legs, memory failing, sleepy during the day the during sleepy failing, memory legs, bomly nesv, antso work­ stop cannot energy intensive, brown, dark urine abnormally f o Colour Plus: limbs. timid, im patient, fearful, coldness in lower in coldness fearful, patient, im timid, ing. flatulence.

Joy, excessive laughter — Heart. TREATMENT. Worry, emotional tension, depression — Spleen. The most fundamental law of oriental medicine is the Great Law of Pu-Hsieh: Grief, negativism — Lungs. “Supply energy to where it is lacking, and Fear, timidity, easily surprised — Kidneys. calm the energy when it is in excess.” This The Five Perverse Climates: means that when the meridian energy is Wind is unfavourable to the liver. Brings minus it must be augmented, and when it propensity to illness which affects the is plus, it must be calmed not dissipated. ligaments. The stainless steel acupuncture needles are Heat is unfavourable to the heart. Brings propensity to illnesses which affect the mostly inserted only to a depth of one arteries. tenth of an inch at the various crucial test Moisture is unfavourable to the spleen. points on the correct meridians, and are Brings propensity to illnesses which affect left in position or manipulated until the the muscles. patient’s pulses have been normalised. Dryness is unfavourable to the lungs. “There is no disease when the pulses are Brings propensity to illnesses which affect normal.” They must all be restored to a the skin, and hair. state of equilibrium. When this has been achieved, the treatment is terminated. Cold is unfavourable to the kidneys. Brings propensity to illnesses which affect the Beginners in the art of acupuncture should bones. limit themselves to inserting needles in thosr parts located only on the chest, the 3) INTERROGATION abdomen and the four limbs. The fewer The usual doctor’s questions. points which have to be used, the better. 4) PALPATION DIAGNOSIS The length of time the needles are left in, These are of the highest importance and i.e. the dosage, depends on the states of sophistication, although too detailed to the pulses. Usually, the more serious the cover here. The pulse disease, the longer the needles are examination should coincide left in place. with that of the meridians.

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If if if if-. torn off with pincers. Belts, shoe-laces, ties, and all medicines are of course mam- “If I used the other road back from nous, the first of the few words in arabic Baalbeck instead of the one through that you’ll hear all the time, and which Zahle. there would be no roadblock there means forbidden. If you wear glasses, they and I would have made it.” are taken and you will m aybe get them “Fuck Lebanon! If it wasn’t for the war back after a few days of requests. All in Pakistan you see, plans were to go to this ‘work’ is done by some greasy trustee Kabul and then get out from Karachi, but under the observation of a guard. If you we had to change at the last moment. Shit!” have anything of value — a chain and cross or locket, for example — or anything “There had to be a tip-off, they were nice like a good pair of shoes or a leather waiting for me, man. Soon as I parked the jacket, the trustee will take them saying car at the customs-house, five customs they are mamnous, and if you ask for men came up and one of them went them later you’ll find that they are lost straight for the tank, tapping with his forever. knuckles: ‘Hashish? You have hashish here?’ Sure, the mothers knew already. With whatever items of clothing they let You dig, the way it works is if the dealer you keep, you are led to a dark barred or the farmer who sold you the dope tips entrance in one of the cell blocks, from off the customs, they’ll sell his hash back where a continuous racket of screamed to him at a cut rate, or give him a small announcements and answers from the percentage of the customs fine, or both. cells will blast your eardrums. This noise If the informer is somebody else, like you will be with you every day from six in the think it was the hotel clerk, then he gets morning to five in the evening; you’ll get a reward.” used to it. The dark corridor has six black metal doors on each wall. Another trustee “I’ve made seven trips before and every­ will yank one open and let you in with thing worked out okay. I had this arrange­ your bundle asking you “hubbly-bubbly? ment with a customs man, paying him hubbly-bubbly?" Fifty to sixty men will 50 dollars for every kilo I carried. But turn to look at you. The walls of the cell this time he suddenly asked me for 100, are loaded with clothing and bags hanging and I got pissed off and told him I’m not from ropes made of strips of useless cloth-, going to pay. So he busted me. Fuck man, ing, and are lined with beddings of if I had kept my cool and paid... But when blankets — soon you’ll learn that they are he told me to pay double I couldn’t give called wall spaces — which leave a corridor in to the bloodsucker!” of dirty concrete floor. At the other end “If only my stupid partner didn’t leave is a dirty doorway to a sloppy narrow the hotel’s name when he mailed the room with a sink and a leaky faucet and parcel at Beirut Express!... Beirut Express garbage, and another door, covered with is a definite bust, man.” a wet blanket, gets you to the toilet, which ing they are without proof or legitimacy is a hole in the floor. In the room there is If if if if- — are submitted to the courts and inform­ a wall of shelves where the prisoners put ***** ers don’t have to show up in court. A good defence carries no weight — only their food, everything in plastic containers and buckets. There are two barred win­ Some months ago, the United Nations private connections between a lawyer and Committee on Drug Abuse, or something the people at the top may work. Judges dows to the corridor and four to the out­ like that, asked Lebanon — among other sentence 20—30 people in 15 minutes by side, all high up. countries - to stop cannabis cultivation. raising three fingers and announcing ***** Lebanon absolutely refused, stating that “Three years”. Lawyers are useless. They cannabis is its number one national are often successful in taking away all A young woman, rather homely, comes product. People say all important families, your money, sometimes writing to your every Monday afternoon - except when politicians, strongmen etc. have something home address and asking for more. Going she doesn’t come - representing the to do with the product. Cultivation is to trial can take five, six months; with Lebanese Red Cross. Prisoners who want centred around Baalbeck, a major tourist postponements — for reasons like “the something — Receipt of a parcel, contact­ spot because of its impressive ancient ruins. judge was ill” or “the arresting officer ing of an embassy, processing of some doc­ Tons of hashish leave the country by ship didn’t come” — up to one year; and there’s ument — put up their names the day be­ from private sea-side estates to the west, a three month court recess during summer fore and they are called out to the yard or by camel caravans to Syria, Jordan and m onths. together, then one by one talk with the woman. Most guys put their names down even Egypt. This trade cannot be touched. ***** So — people say — to satisfy the United either to get out of the cell for half an States who pay big amounts towards the After being moved about for 2-3 days hour of open air, or just to gape at the war against drugs — money that goes in from jail to jail - customs, army, police, woman. rewards to informers, arresting agents, court cells, all stinking holes — you are Last time she was here, the sergeant passed expenses for better agencies etc. - the brought here by taxi which you have to by with an arab prisoner and a guard, talk­ authorities here do everything to catch as pay for yourself. You are taken to a ing to the prisoner in a friendly tone and many of the small-fry, the ‘half to one covered yard, what they call a ‘veranda’, slapping him on the back. They went into hundred kilos’ smugglers. All means are where you are stripped and thoroughly a door nearby, a room where pillows, old used to this end. Everybody can — and searched from the seams of your clothes mattresses and suitcases are kept. Pretty will — be an informer. The judiciary works to your mouth and asshole. All photographs soon screams of pain came out of that on a guilty until you prove your innocence of females are torn to pieces; wives, room. The Red Cross woman, continuing principle. The police will use entrapment sisters, girl-friends - maybe mothers too? at her work with the foreigners, put on a

34 methods. “Confidential” dossiers — mean­ All metal objects, even trouser clasps, are smile of embarrassed knowledge. After five Illustrated by P. Koutrouboussis minutes of screams, the sergeant came out, of dollars. Their stories are fantasies, made night I go to a discotheque and she’s there. his face flustered, carrying a length of thick up just for the benefit of the others. In­ I have hashish with me, Mister Mahmout, entwined rope. Then two guards dragged trigue and cell politics are ruthless, back- many pieces in all my pockets. She’s very out the crying prisoner and dumped him stabbing, beastly. Sometimes attempts at beautiful, Mister Mahmout, and much into a stone water-trough. His feet were serious activity are made. A penniless Dane money. She says ‘Hello George; you’re not crimson red and swollen; sobbing, he dun­ with glasses, living parasitically ofthis angry I hurt you last time?’ ‘No, I was a bad ked them into the water. neighbours in the cell, made statistics on boy. I was wrong to do that. You want a pre-trial time, expenses on lawyers, food; drink?’ She says ‘Tea!’ ‘OK’, I put hashish he argues that everybody should fire their in her tea. ‘How much sugar?’ I put.a piece If you want to see a doctor he’s there once lawyers! Then begs a banana from the guy in her glass with the sugar. In five minutes, a week, but not every week. If you’re next to him. Somebody else proposes that ha-ha, she starts laughing. 1 put another suddenly ill, you m ight get an aspirin,if if a man is arrested for a crime in a foreign piece in more tea, stir it. She’s so high. 1 you ask for it repeatedly. You have to ask country he should just be thrown out and take her, put her in the car, vrooom ! I go the Leb in the cell, and the Leb in the never let back; the more countries he is not to house; in the trees. I fuck, boom, corridor and the sergeant when he makes arrested in, the more restricted his travel­ boom, boom, three times, six times. Then the daily count at 4.30 p.m. ling will be. And if he commits a crime in she’s asleep, I take her necklace, all jewelry, his own country, then only can he be This inspection they call staadek and every­ I take lots of money from her bag, rings, body has to get all the wet clothes of the imprisoned. watch... Very good, Mister Mahmout. lines crossing the cell, put slippers under Then I sell them. One with red diamonds, the blankets, line up in twos and wait, An American comes up to another lying in 2.000 dollars. Other jewels and everything, sometimes for a quarter of an hour. When his bed of blankets. “Sir! All comic books 5.000 dollars. I could get much more but the sergeant comes, accompanied by a present and accounted for, Sir!” I wanted to get rid of these things.” guard, he makes the round of the room, “George... This is very bad. God-dammit!” counting under his breath with his tiny eyes “Nooo, Mister Mahmout, das ist sehr gut! half-closed and his pointed moustache bris­ A German comes out of the toilet. Mister Mahmout, when we get out of here, tling. Then he will stop in front of the cell’s “Shit! Who’s been using the plates we eat we have machine guns, go to a bank in charoush — that’s the prisoner responsible from to wash his ass with? Shit, man!” Beirut, boom-boom, we take all the for order. In the foreigners’ cell, the job is money, and then go to Casablanca, Rolls filled by a big American Negro, stronger Royces, sixty girls... hmn, das ist sehr gut!” than anybody else. So, about once a Shower time is another “outside activity”. month, for some private or ridiculous Groups of 16 are taken to the shower reason he will slightly beat up one of the about 100 yards away from the blocks, and “Mister Mahmout! Guter schlaf!” prisoners. He plays a double role of pro­ wash frantically for five minutes in small, George Bulziev, or Bullshit to his cellmates, tector of his cell-mates and lackey of the slimy stalls. If it’s raining you get two extra a 27 year-old runaway Bulgarian gets a prison authorities with the accent on the showers, one on the way there waiting for plastic cup of coffee from Mister Mahmout latter. Tire sergeant will ask him “H ow the previous group to finish, and one when and letting go a fart, lowers himself on the much Jameses?” and the man will answer you’ve finished, waiting for your group to blanket. in arabic, giving the number of prisoners gather and start back. Some of the stalls present. Then the sergeant will say have rotting wooden doors. Whoever gets one of them has the advantage to be able The two greatest values in the room are “Bravo, Jam eses!” Every day the “wall space” and coffee. Wall space same; every single day. to masturbate under the hot water instead of washing. belongs to tne senior prisoners; the rest roll up their bedding The intelligence level is in the morning and spread it out at night, covering every pretty low. Prisoners “Mister Mahmout, in Holland I meet made­ talk about sports- moiselle with big car. She said she’s engaged inch of floor. The last cars, yachts, but she’ll show me places in Amsterdam. senior man gets a wall space next door to thousands Very good-looking girl. We go to night­ clubs, whisky, champagne. I want to the “kitchen” /%?/ fu ck but she doesn’t want. Aft6r we where h e’s reach her house, she say this is where I live, I grab her when we are out of the car, but she M kick me here... Owww! So she goes away. Then 1 don’t

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Nerves are always frayed, laughter and fun The sleeping room looks like something are forced, the only privacy is in the toilet; out of a science-fiction nightmare. The even there after 2-3 minutes at the most, floor is covered with prisoners rolled up in somebody will want to use it. If you blankets, mindless monstrous larvae in their go there in the small hours, you get cocoons. Here and there they twist with a chance to see som e large rat slow sluggish movements and fart and crawl out of the hole between cough. your legs. £

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The to man's spiritual evolution ically (represented by the tortoise) one else is his brother and vanguard of the 6th Subrace is between incarnations. However, and living exoterically (represented every man is his brother's incarnating at this time. And " 6" there is little about the Last Sign by the hare). This is a part of the ■keeper. In this case “ to keep" is the Kabbalistic Number of the which relates to life on this planet, Piscean Mystery, that "G od is a is not to possess but to care for, Sun. The Subrace was announced and to scrape together what is spirit and must be worshipped in to watch over and to nourish. by the entry into Aries of the appropriate and then to try to fill spirit and in truth". "The turtle This is universal brotherhood. Planet Uranus in 1927 on April out a whole Zodiacal Sign w ith it wins". . . Fool's Day. The Fool of Tarot verges on the absurd and useless. not a flashy slogan perhaps, But although we were all created corresponds to the Planet Uranus, Pisces is seldom, if ever, aware of however not to understand it equal at the beginning of Eternity, which is, in 1969, halfway around anything in terms of simple physical results in physically dying and are we still being born equal with in Libra — another A ir Sign and reality. Certain Piscean virtues such getting another peptalk and then all that individual karma which therefore compatible to Aquarius. as sympathetic intuition and having to be physically born again, has gone on since? Are we spiritual refinement are vital to and again. identical twins? Universal The Aquarian Way, the way of humanity as a whole and appear in brotherhood sounds fraternal. And true Brotherhood is to work in all the Signs to a certain extent but Not to understand it is to be on if we are all born equal, why the direct communication w ith each they hardly justify an entire Sign; the outside looking in. taboo on judging each other? other, co-ordinating their projects a Sign with no practical attributes Is it a prejudice to say "nobody's w ith no ego interference, each at all. Surely no Sign should cost The Children of the Twelfth Sign really different"? Are all contributing to the others for the the others more than it’s worth I are consciously aware of the brothers twin-brothers? good of the entire Family. And yet . . . Over thejtreat reality of the spirit. Which is the gate of the Tw elfth (Piscean) beginning of knowing what's really Aquarius is mainly under the The glyph of Aquarius, originally Mansion of Heaven is written: "All going on. And that's the meaning rulership of Uranus; the Initiator, composed of three parallel waves the major decisions of life are easy of "hip"; to know what's really Planet of Genius and the super­ was the old Egyptian symbol for if we place no other God before going on. It includes much more conscious Great Flash which water and was pronounced moo Him ". than the occult, although it is still comes to the stormy mind like as in Mu; lost continent of the very esoteric. sudden lightning; giving little Pacific. The ignorant and the proud, of time for the unprepared to see all course, miss this one completely; Eventually each of us w ill be that it shows, being impressed only the former thinking God to be a confronted with the conscious by what he happens to be staring The Aquarian expression of love conception of man and the latter awareness of all that was, is and at when the flash comes. To the is quite different from that of unable to accept anything beyond shall be. It is said we don't live one's own ability to understand or uninitiate this way of thinking Leo, the polar opposite. Leo through it. It is also said that this agree. Pisces, being the last Sign, doesn't seem very scientific yet governs the heart and it is is the beginning of everlasting life. most of scientific progress moves directly from the heart that the is closest to the Source and there­ on the impulse of the Aquarian compassion of Leo comes; indis­ fore knows best about such things. Unless im itation is to be consid­ insight. criminate, warm, and personal. ered an individualism in itself, Although Leo relates to every one Pisces is the High Sign, the most the Twelfth Zodiacal Category is The Eleventh Sign is the Sign into spiritually sensitive, the one whose without qualification; the expres­ composed entirely of unmanifest which the solar system is consciousness is most likely to be sion is intense and personal or at likenesses of the other Eleven. currently taking almost a couple least it seems that way to the irreparably distorted by strong or of centuries to back into. The recipient. Aquarius, however, violent drugs. And as the natural In terms other than those of the symptoms are so obvious as to be law and order here on Earth is relates to humanity as a whole, Zodiacal Categories o f the laughable. Like the popular use beginning to pass from a Piscean to impersonally and with reason. Incarnation there is, of course; of the terms "man" and "brother" an Aquarian Age, one of the more much to say. However the point of like the superscience and the com­ obvious symptoms is the spectacle Within the Family of Man the this whole conversational series is munes, and the United Nations, of trying to impose the old upon friends from the Eleventh are the direct application of the and the electronic music, and a the new through anti-drug champions of individual freedom relationship of the Esoteric to the long etcetera. legislation and attitude. and equality of opportunity. They Exoteric through the Signs of the do not wish to be left alone but Zodiac. they do want to be left free. Pisces knows without having to be Saturn is also a strong part of Along w ith the Fire Signs (Aries, told the spiritual is the most real But here is a Sign of which such Aquarius and Saturn is consistency, Leo and Sagittarius) Aquarius is a and the material is the most unreal. comments cannot be made. precision, authority, discipline and great liberator of the human Truth is an experience of the soul, Earthly evolution has not yet form. We must change the old spirit, the great leveler and not a conclusion of the brain. reached the place where the inner concepts of brotherhood without status-buster. Pisces cannot be tricked by out­ meaning of Pisces is applicable to breaking them. The 11 th House of ward appearance or actions. tangible existence. a horoscope is traditionally called B-flat, violet, bright stars, rain- Pisces sees your soul. How does the House of Friends and Aspira­ bearing clouds, uranium, electricity that feel? tions. Through the amalgamation primates, Ibis, Gospel of St John, B-natural, Red-violet, all fish, seal, and welding processes associated oratory, five, six, seven of Swords The tortoise is one of the animals sea lion, sleep, feathers, magpie, with the Eleventh Sign, we can The Star of Tarot, aviation, corresponding to the last sign. The parrot, dance, Neptune, 18th see the 11 th House becoming the psychology, electronics, pitchers story behind the race between the Tarot Trump, opium, soapstone, House of Group Movement. and urns. turtle and the rabbit, which the lilac, all exotic plants. Zodiac Contemplations by Ambrose Hollingsworth Illustrations by Thomas Bewick and His School

ARIES TAURUS

High in the head of Aries person first to create: to be the originator The pillars of creation are the itself, a stewardship of the land. is an awareness of a certain of ideas, to think of it first, to Fixed Signs, and of them Taurus They work out this responsibility responsibility which drives him break deadlocks. Our friends from is the most down into earth. in the real-estate business of through life at a burning pace and Aries are heroic pioneers who Taurian people understand and matching people and their activities sometimes consumes him in its establish the new on the barren appreciate the divine grace of with the land as pieces of property. own fire. Each sign is in itself a ground of the old, but always that which lasts. "U pon this rock Others work in closer touch as reason for being alive on earth. w ithin sight of water. will I build my church". Peter farmers, cattlemen or gardeners. The reason for being born in the the rock is a Taurian image, the Sign of Aries is a compound Those who care for ancient firm foundation upon which can Although Taurus is a most responsibility to be right, to be symbols may see the head of a be built a vehicle of the soul.' practical sign according to the first, and to know oneself. ram in the astrological glyph for Taurus represents the first of the logic of the Zodiac, there is a Aries, which looks like a capital Y four pillars, the one which must certain field of practical informa­ The responsibility for being right with downward curling "horns". hold while the others are being tion and phenomena which is is tremendous, especially in a Also to be seen are the leaflets of a set in place. often, or even usually, overlooked world which questions the very sprouting seed, any eruption or the by the second sign. This field is, existence of a difference between rising upward of spring fountains. Uncertainty is unhealthy for of course, the occult. A Taurus right and wrong. Aries considers Taurians and insecurity delays incarnation is not for the purpose this question a search for an excuse Any red flower is associated, the their growth. The rest of us can of esoteric sbholarship. So let’s not for being wrong. Born "to be right" geranium being very strong. Will help by providing as much stability push it at them . as their function on earth, they power is the related state of mind as we naturally can as a medium regard being wrong as an intolerable and the physical sense of sight is for them to w ork in. We can They are learning to see the "glory sin. O f course, knowing this or also involved with Aries. accept their material orientation of the sky" through the "beauty feeling this way, they need no one and get out of the way while they of the earth". They are "lifting to point it out to them or remind East is the direction associated attract and build an enduring up their eyes unto the hills". They them of it. And since Aries is the and the motive is mental impulse. situation of visible security which are not only beautifying, but also Sign whose function is to be right, Aries is the ruling sign of England, they do better than anyone else. building. In some way, especially Aries people are more likely to Syria, Germany, Israel, and West Then, when they have done that, with the Sun in Taurus or with be right more often than the rest Poland. Three im portant stars of the highly evolved Taurians Taurus rising at birth, they are of us. Aries are: Difda at 2 degrees 9 continue to build on into the here to accomplish the marriage of minutes, with a Mercury-Seturn invisible, this being also an form and function. The result is Also, since Aries is the Sign influence, Alpharatz 13 degrees 51 intuitive and a psychic sign. Many practical and a pleasure as well. governing the head, the more minutes, Venus-Jupiter influence, are (at least potentially) clairaud- intelligent the Arian, the less likely and AlPherg at 26 degrees 31 ient, that is their hearing is not The Sign of the Bull is often the he is to be wrong. An unfortunate minutes Jupiter-Saturn. restricted by tim e or space. sign of a healer, a healer by touch. mistake of some Arians is to This is one whose inner harmony assume all this and go by their Stars themselves are temporarily Love and beauty are the keywords is clear enough and strong enough own ideas w ithout the validity of activated by the close presence of Venus, the planet which rules to act as quiet example of order personal experience. (within three degrees) of a passing Taurus and Libra. Through these (which is health) from one body to planet. They are important on a two signs are born some of the another, usually through the palm But Aries may try to waive personal horoscope only if they most beautiful and loving people. of the hand. experience in favour of opinion. conjunct a planet at birth. Then They do exceptionally well as Sometimes they are in such a rush again it takes a passing planet to members of enduring teams of Of the half-dozen similar versions and under such pressure to get activate it after that. This partnerships where they provide a of the traditional Tarot cards going that they make an inaccurate temporary activation of a star is sort of launching platform, a usually seen today, all show much appraisal of a new situation. like the brief fright flare of a center of dependability, a Taurus in the fifth Major Card striking match, compared with the familiar form. called the Hierophant, as well as The need to know about the self continuous, though flickering, the King of Pentacles of the can, through the effort to meet light of a planet and of course Major changes of situation are not Minor Cards. that need, put Aries people into planetary light is reflected sunlight, necessarily unhealthy for.them behaviour and attitudes which we (perhaps they need to learn) but Red-orange, D-flat, the sense of call conceit. We complain that On the twelve tonal scale the note such interruptions as change of hearing, copper, and a certain kind they talk about themselves too of Aries is C. The colour is red, residence, mate or occupation are of obedience; all are related to much. If you had one short life­ first band of the rainbow, Tarot quite numbing. Some part of the Taurus in a very high way, perhaps time in which to attain enlighten­ trump card is number 4, the person seems to close up and shut a sacred way. TTie Hierophant has ment through self-knowledge you Emperor, who is called Son of the down while the change goes through been called Revealer of Sacred might talk about yourself every Morning. Corresponding Hebrew its process. There is no inclination Things. chance you got. You might hope letter is Heh, second and fourth to relax until everything becomes to learn by hearing yourself talk letter of the unspeakable name of familiar and consistent again It is to others and by the reactions of God. Aries is also called the when the environment has those to whom you talk. Aries General, the Conqueror. The mellowed into an old friend people do this whether they associated archangel is called the that the beauty and great strength consciously know it or not. Prince of Strength and Courage. of Taurus really reveal themselves.

Aries people are born with the Some Taurians feel responsible

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The key to the human situation is knows that man lives not on earth Cancer is the Cardinal Water Sign. abandoned shells of other sea-' said to be held by the Gem ini. only. At some point sooner or Ruled by the Moon it governs creatures. A highly developed The Twins have the answer, later in the incarnation he is childbirth, the breast, stomach and Cancerian can assemble a home according to many of the old presented with a showdown and womb and is associated with both anywhere. The necessary incentive schools. They also bring contro­ must make a choice of the body or' sailing and the home. is a family whether by birth or versy and a double premise. The the spirit; one or the other must be otherwise adopted. third Sign seems to affect people known as more real. This is the Sign of the Mother. in particular more deeply and That's why a Cancer incarnation is Cancer is the House of the Moon, completely than any other House As a part of some of the ancient extremely d ifficult for most males. face of many phases, many moods, of the Zodiac. This is the Sign initiations as well as modern It's difficult enough to express From an earthy point of view the which specializes!in people. In fact, orders of churches the aspriant masculinity through water, the W ater Signs — Cancer, Scorpio, people with nothing in Gemini will chooses a heavenly bride of the Sign of the Mother is the most and Pisces — never completely still manifest the characteristics world and marries his Order. A difficult of all. By the opposite incarnate, they never fully arrive of the Sign if they are born with a Geminian who has made his side of the same token Capricorn is on earth. This is the cause of much Third House Sun and a strong choice is not so rigidly defined said to be the most d ifficult Sign confusion and misunderstanding. Mercury. Gemini is so involved with The result of his choice is a through which to incarnate as a Water Signs, although verbose, are people that it can be the most person whose life is based on the women. Capricorn is the Sign not inclined to spell things out. superficial of the life forms on reality of the body or of the spirit. of the Father. Through Cancer, The Mother Sign, earth. this often manifests (strangely And here may be the key to man's Water is that which washes and is enough) as an apparent reluctance The Lovers card of the Tarot situation: Human nature made the the universal solvent. Water to truly participate in life, a trumps corresponds to Gemini. choice long ago. How do we like lubricates and it also freezes. reluctance to create, a holding Most versions illustrate a male and the world which resulted? And Water cycle, emotional cycle, back of the real opinion or feeling. a female figure below and an could we imagine a world as an menstrual cycle, spring, tides and Cancer is very shy for one thing, an angelic figure above. The man extremely more desirable place to the moon. Water people and the moon hides her face in a storm, is looking over at the woman and be than it is? watery people relate in conscious­ and often is just plain not interested she is looking up at the angel ness through associations, in explaining or expressing at tne while the angel is relating to both. The lore of the Tarot and of the impressions and internal responses. time. Perhaps most intimately true Such are the facets of those born ancient Rabbis teaches that Adam Their ways do not include is the relationship of the Sign to in the Third Sign. was sent to the Garden of Eden inform ation usable to those who such things. Truth is so precious to be a gardener or caretaker and demand facts and reasons. They do that every utterance is a pregnancy The double purpose of the to give to everything a name. This not add 2 and 2 , they sympathize and a birth complete with pains Geminian incarnation is to manifest naming of everything is part of with it. But they do come up with and traumas and even "false an idea of heaven on earth and to the heritage of Gemini through the 4. Or rather they get the feeling of labour” . reflect to others their higher , talent of speech and the tool df 4 , and if necessary it can be (spiritual) selves. This is the . putting it into a few excellent translated into 4. It’s more of Cancerians will take care of you message from Quicksilver, ruler words. The Magician (Trump No. numerology than arithmetic. like no one else w ould or even of the Sign. The further they are 6.) in the Garden of the Tarot is could. Mind, body and sould all from this service, the more Mercury the messenger seen The ways of emotion can never be secure in the strong embrace of the nervous our Mercurial friends through the Tarot and also the explained or accounted for except Mother of the Zodiac. You will be become. arranger of all w ithin the reach of emotionally. They can never be fed, clothed sheltered and loved, his perception. "Collect your spoken nor written, they can only although maybe a bit possessively. Gemini is the Sign of message and thoughts before you speak." be felt or emoted. Music is the Virgo is the Sign of service. special art of the em otion. You can Among the knick-knecks of the Mercury is usually seen with a Theifreedom to change is a only tell water because it's wet. Fourth House of Heaven are: E winged cap and winged shoes. necessary part of the Gemini flat, yellow-orange, the Chariot Astrologically he is the front office environment. This is also a basic Water is by nature receptive. Men of the Taro t, the sea, the crab, of the mind, the intellect, reason­ need of Sagittarius, the opposite who will not listen or relate to sea food in general, tenacity, ing process, sense perception, the Sign. When provided in excess we women as equal human beings are feeding people, bottom of the pool, nervous (message) system of th e have a bum, when denied the shutting out half of the truth of the sphinx, the embrace, Queen- physical vehicle. personality often splits down the life. And-it's been said "w ithin mother or dowager queen, old middle. But in its natural habitat every woman there's a man, within age, the safety pin, security, the With all of this to cover Gemini this most human of the Signs every man there's a woman". If we knack of last minute rescue, people are the busiest we w ill ever develops all the human talents with try to disregard emotion as a nec­ arm-waving gestures, cooking and meet. They aren't really complica­ enough attention from his w it to essary part of reality we lose, any explaining. In the Minor Arcana ted, it's just very difficult to see master them all through basic way we look at it. of the Tarot Cancer is represented the whole person at any given time. principles. He car) successfully by the 2,3, and 4 or Cups. The They are moving so fast it's hard po int o u t life situationf fo r all the Called the Sign of the Home, safety pin is a fine demonstration to keep track of them. We can do rest o f us to see clearly. Satire is Cancer is expected therefore to of the power of Cancer which them a favour by not trying and one of the more eloquent methods. prefer to stay in one place no exerts no strain yet never lets go. by not insisting that the "real" When Gemini delivers, it is taken m atter w hat. Traveling in search person step forward. up to the rest of us to apply the of true home, some Cancerians the messages the Third House of never settle down. The Hermit A Geminian in his highest place the Zodiac provides. crab makes his home in the

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THE JERUSALEM FILE. when Whitey is portrayed, as in Directed by John Flynn; this .film , as so hopelessly vain (MGM/EMI). and flabby and without the subtle viciousness normally expected in To quote the blurb, this is an a career politician. Nevertheless, "action thriller set in Jerusalem in the disguises fo r the robbery — the aftermath of the Six Days War". rubber caricatures of Wallace, Nixon and Agnew — were clearly As such, it's quite gripping; it well-chosen. creates a realistic picture of the sort of pressures produced and suffered Bruce Leigh. by urban guerrillas, which should dispel some of the romantic mis­ conceptions floating around the THE RULING CLASS, "right on" left. Directed by Peter Medak, (Odeon; Haymarket). In fact, the main story concerns the attempts of some criminally I half-expected that this was going naive and careless American students to be another in the series of dread­ to join an Arab terrorist group, ful camp comedies about the followed with amusement and grat­ English Aristocracy which Ameri­ itude by the Shin Bett (The Israeli can audiences so love. Special Branch). Their efforts get I was very wrong, and I got wronger themselves and their Arab friends as the plot unfolded. In the first killed. half, a young Earl (Peter O'Toole) Donald Pleasence is brilliant (as decides that he is God (and of usual) as the head of Shin Bett course Jesus; the Trinity being (not so much a James Bond, more what it is) and preaches a very a paunchy Civil Servant with a gun). physical doctrine of love. His Nicol Williamson is less good as a high To ry, flogging and hunting liberal college professor who tries family plot to have him put away, to keep his flock out of trouble but only after he has produced a (for an easy life and to protect male heir. Some of the resulting American citizens, not for the scenes put the dryness of my Y - Arabs). fronts in jeopardy. Like his descent from the cross in the dining-room The failure of the film is the usual every morning (he sleeps on it). one; although it creates a very Like the high church wedding, convincing atmosphere (the parallels where he thanks the appalled con­ between Israel and South Africa hit gregation every time they offer you at once) it doesn't explain why him (i.e. God) a prayer, causing the Arabs are fighting. They wage the Bishop to expire. their guerrilla campaign because, well uh because that's the way Then comes the abrupt turn­ Arabs are, that's what gets them off around. An utterly ruthless shrink man. being restricted to monosyllables COOL BREEZE. hired by the family "cures" him — i.e. drives him really mad — by a It's not good enough and it isn't and wry platitudes. Paul Newman Written and directed by Barry genuinely terrifying piece of shock accidental; it's the same journalistic and Lee Marvin are in Mexico Pollack (Ritz, Leicester Square) therapy. He becomes a caricature device the British Press uses on buying ma igy cattle for Bears a distinct relationship to of a 19th Century Lord, to the Ireland, or the US Press on Viet­ Texan rodeo promoter (who The Asphalt Jungle, and in fact, boundless admiration of his fam ily, nam to suppress the political issues eventually burns them for 500 views like an uneasy cross between the local Tory party and the House in favour of cops and robbers. dollars). They play caricatures of The French Connection and of Lords, where he erupts as an some of their best known parts; Schraden Giftgas Putney Swope. The cast is mainly awesome oetender or the taith "My Newman is a not too bright, black, and the basic plot, a Lords, we have forgotten how to paunchy version of Hud. and diamond robbery carried out by P U N IS H I" Flogging and hanging Marvin plays his drunk out of four men who are specialists in the replace fucking and flowerpicking. Cat Ballou with a grey flannel suit various skills required — lasers, Aid under the cool cruel exterior, POCKET MONEY. on. They make a really fine com­ muscles, getaway etc. The master he bubbles with obscenities, silent (Directed by Tony May/am). edy team, a sort of drier, tougher mind is provided by a fresh-from- screams, kill, kill, and the solemn A B C cinemas. Laurel and Hardy. prison superspaae, who is, inciden­ conviction that he is Jack the If you like Lee Marvin and Paul tally, the only member of the gang Ripper. Newman, you'll like Pocket Money. The film is shot in a slow and to come out of the venture both You might like it anyway because easy realist style, concentrating alive and actually still grooving Although what's left of the Aristo­ it's a nice film (nice being the on the business of buying and (boogying, whatever — laughing). cracy is a rather easy target for appropriate word). selling cattle, haggling w ith stony satire (and not the real ruling class faced old Mexicans and getting In colour, with medium-funky anyway) this film uses it as an am­ It's a modern-day western with drunk; Lee Marvin gives a par­ sounds by Solomon Burke, this bush from which to slash up a lot pick-up trucks instead of horses, ticularly splendid portrayal of entertainm ent has its droll and of other institutions, with a degree hideous nouveau riche Texans for deviousness; dishonesty is such adroit moments, although the jive of humour and savagery that is cattle owners, chrome and Naug- second nature that he occasionally talk is sometimes obsessive and rarely seen (Joe Orton is the first ahyde hotel bars instead o f the rips himself off by mistake. near self-parodying, and much comparison to mind). saloon and burger joints for the funnier in Putney Swope. Putting ol’ camp fire. Altogether, it's a long step away down the Man — a pastime inevit­ And if you don't like Peter O'Toole from their usual super-stud roles, — as I don't — this might change There is no sex, no violence, no able and compulsory for the urban and a successful one. your mind (as it did mine). great dramatic theme, and prec- poor, particularly the black urban ous little script, the dialogue Dick Pountain poor — loses some of its edge Mary Lam 43 x o L reviews

WATCH OUT KIDS, Hibbing, Minnesota or Jerry Hop­ Mick Farren & Edward Barker kins giving you the low-down on (Open Gate Books; £1.501. Tupelo, Mississippi. Whoever writes the definitive Bolan book (poor A couple of years ago, while sod) is gonna have to lead o ff with searching for the Angry Brig­ 2000 words about Hackney. ade, the police raided the Charles Shaar Murray. house of an innocent man (and how innocent!). That man was Mick Farren, the author of Watch Out Kids. The dope be­ FR A NCO 'S PR IS O N E R , ing hidden, they found nothing Miguel Garcia (Hart-Davis, £2.25). but "treated the outline of Miguel Garcia was, and still is, this book like it was the blue­ a true and militant anarchist, print for an armed revolution.” who has done what to us, born Silly old police. in a more desolate time, looks For the few who don't know, Mick only naive and ridiculous; he is the "dope-fiend, political, ex­ actually built his life around rock star and multi-arrested freak struggling for something he leader who don't w ant to lead believed to be right. Can you no-one", and Watch Out Kids is a penetrating account of how "Elvis imagine that? D on't seem to gave birth to the Angry Brigade". be too many people around A sort of English D o It!; a history these days who believe in any­ of the underground in pictures thing. organised around a series of epoch- He fought for, and saw the defeat making events (i.e. those in which of, the libertarian cause at the Mick Farren was involved). hands of Franco in 1939. He and Like Abbie Hoffman and Rubin, the others who were left worked Mick's prose-style is adventurous The King - naked in Memphis some eighteen years ago with the Allies from 39 to 45 and racy. Mick has added a still (during hard times you have to further-out ingredient however; hip history books like Watch Out the 20th century. He's 37 years make your alliances where you self-contradiction. One minute he Kids, handed down myths about old, and even now he has a legion can, even if it means dirtying your tells us that rock stars are in­ the Filmore East. Meanwhile the of fans whose reverence is total hands a little ). He was part of the struments o f social control, m ar­ vultures circle... and who lack all traces of a sense post-war underground resistance keted by the system. Next minute of humour about Elvis, as any (fucking over the regime by forgery, To quote somebody or other "it's he is praising them as rebel leaders issue of Elvis M onthly proves. bank raids, explosions, while all the uncool to vamp on the energies of and outlaws. tim e trying to rebuild the smashed the community". Jerry is hip to the fact that the union organisations. He was caught Perhaps it's the dope, perhaps it's mass Elvis public is what's going in the big round-up of activists in dope and beer, maybe just mental Dave Robbins. to make this book a bestseller, 1949 and sentenced to death. The exhaustion? and that the kind of reader who sentence commuted to 30 years, he There are moments o f high drama wants the Elvis book will not be carried on the struggle in jail, and like t)ie hour-by-hour account of EL VIS: A Biography, interested in what some hippie it is this part of his life that his w hathappened in the IT offices Jerry Hopkins, punk kid from Rolling Stone has book is mainly about. His meeting the day the Stones were sentenced. (Open Gate: £1.95). to say about the King. So Elvis with Stuart Christie in jail gave him "A couple of groupies were trying is long on reportage and totally the contacts for smuggling out end to persuade everyone to go and see "... Presley's roots were country- devoid of any opinion and inter­ publishing some of his letters — Paul McCartney. This idea was and-western. He was tagged as the pretation of the Phenomenon. causing even more trouble fo r the turned down". 'Hillbilly Cat' before becoming If you've any interest whatsoever authorities - and also led to his blues-oriented and sucking the When describing things that have in the story of how a honky kid coming to Britain on his release in creative blood of Arthur 'Big Boy' happened to him M ick keeps his from darkest redneck Mizzizzippi 1969 and to his writing this auto­ Crudup and Lowell Fulsom. He head above water. The trouble turned the world onto black music biography. then proceeded to boldly rip-off starts when he tries to fit these and of how a threat to Western Garcia knows this — "repression many of the songs recorded by events into some sort of broader civilisation was systematically con­ has stupified the people of today" the great rhythm and blues singer. perspective. The pages ring to the verted into a comfortable symbol — and he also knows there is more Little Richard. And some people sound of crashing sentences and of American middleclass virtues, than one way to repress people. would have us believe this thief is collapsing half-baked ideas; as in then there's no two ways about Franco and his gang have tradition­ an originator..." — black poet "The lemmings have a great and it, this book is required reading. ally relied on the good old- A .X . Nicholas. groovy method of population Jerry Hopkins, despite his stud­ fashioned method: fear, secret control. The trouble is it's a bit "Elvis is where pop begins and ends. iedly noncommittal stance, has police, disappearances in the night, hard on the individual lemming." He's the great original and„even provided all the facts you'll need etc. But into Spain, as elsewhere, Wryly humourous it may be, but now, he's the image th at makes to draw your own conclusions. has crept the new, big turnover, the punchline "Later for jumping all the others seem shoddy, the low risk method where the people's What is faintly disquieting to note in the sea" sounds rather like a boss. For once the fan club spiel ways of thinking and living are is how fast the rock biography is prophesy. is justified: Elvis is King." — Nik dissolved into the plasticated getting stylised. After only 3 im­ Cohn. mishmash of buying, spending, At another point he tells us that portant books (on the Beatles, possession, ownership; and with "it is about time we had a new You pays yer money and you Dylan and Presley) the pattern is them goes unity and the capacity civilisation". It seems to me we've picks yer definition. What's be­ so clear that you know you're to recognise the enemy for what got one, a civilisation rather like yond all dispute is that Elvis going to start off with a geography it is. that of ancient Egypt, in that it Presley is socially, if not musically, lesson, be it Hunter Davis on 4 4 only exists in relics; record albums. the most improtant entertainer of Liverpool, Anthony Sacduto on Garcia addresses his book very 0 itooic reviews

much to the English people (com­ though, presents something of a part of the same book, develop­ citizen of AJ or Bradley Martin paring English legal punishments problem: an 8" x 10 " glossy paper­ ing a different sub-plot maybe, even after they've made one of with ones for similar offences in back, beautifully produced, but the same images keep popping Burroughs (picture the 1984 Dem­ Fascist Spain etc.) — it's a piece of superbly designed (by Neil Shak- up....Roller skate boys turn slow ocratic Party Convention... anti-Fascist propaganda. But he ery),itwas presumably intended circles in ruined suburb....silver "gentlemen, a junkie ah may be, recognises (at least I hope he does) as a money-raiser for LNS. All well light popping in eyes... a queer ah may be, but bah God the contradiction that it is appeal­ and good. Beyond that, its only Sometimes you get the feeling ahm white"). ing for the sympathy of a people apparent purpose is to decorate that he's got a form ula which he The Wild Boys goes almost back who are equally contained — the coffee-tables, or perhaps to act applies to a heap of random words to the N aked Lunch in form at; only real difference being that our as a nostalgic scrapbook for those producing the various combinat­ it’s got a story, set out as a series establishment has understood for who have now dropped in. The ions in his books, but if that were of drily humorous episodes, inter­ a long time the advantage of the same might be said of Mitchell true other people could discover spersed with cut up and, of course, new, improved, invisible method. Goodman's The Movement it and do just as well. You've only lots of fucking scenes involving towards a New America, but there Any lessons to be learnt? Well, as got to look at some of the attempts lithe young boys (probably too an incredible amount of useful soon as the chance was lost for the (take any issue of New Worlds for many if you're not turned on by information was brought together Spanish, the resistance became a example) to see it's not that sim­ boys); The Wild Boys are in one volume (albeit a volume movement which was founded on ple. Besides the juggling with words, Burrough's fantasy of what the the size of a phone directory). defeat; a jackal snapping at the heels Burroughs has got a sense of Underground could have been; the Rather, Shots begs comparison of the authorities, always irritating, humour seldom found outside of youth o f the world have taken to with David Bailey's Goodbye maybe even dangerous but never in captivity and an imagination more the Sahara Desert, dressed only in Baby and Amen. On that level, it with a chance of achieving complete depraved (in the finest sense of rainbow coloured jockstraps. They is not so much a failure as a capit­ success. So the im portant question the word) than any writer since eat American tourists and the US ulation. to ask about people like Garcia is De Sade and Lautreamont. military expeditions sent to put 'W hat else could he have done?' If Clive Hodgson. Because he is now too fashionable them down, whom they slay in a Garcia could not win there was no to ignore, the Sunday lit. critics variety of atrocious ways, making choice but for him to kill himself are forced to approve what once hash pouches of their victims' losing — but how could he have would have been dismissed as por­ scrotums. They even develop ways won? And this question is just as THE WILD BOYS, nography; usually they try to of reproducing without the aid of crucial for us now: now that the William Burroughs (Calder & make us believe that high moral women (Burroughs' misogyny has Stoke Newington face their mock 8 Boyars, £2.50). purpose lies behind Burroughs' reached new heights). Now read trial those left must ask 'W hat else little fiction world of knife toting on... could have been done or might be The Wild Boys is Burroughs' first homosexual cannibals. They fool If you're into comparisons, this done?' There has been too much full length novel since Nova only themselves; old Bill is out to novel is certainly not as consist­ losing. Express,and it effortlessly regains deprave and corrupt us all, in ently brilliant as The Naked Lunch Billy Hull. for him the title of the Funniest other words to turn us away from or Nova Express. Burroughs may and Most Depraved Writer Alive the paths of righteousness (the getting tired, but then so is every­ (if he ever lost it). paths of deference to authority, thing else. He'll only be in real sexual repression, patriotism, the trouble when the world gets nastier SHOTS. If you're a Burroughs reader path of the good worker, the good than his imagination (mid 1974 by Photographs from the Under­ you'll have no trouble in picking soldier, the good nigger, the good my calendar). ground Press. up the story where we left off. humanist whitewash artist... ). It's Edited by David Fenton for Like everything he writes, it's all going to be hard to make a good Dick Fountain Liberation News Service. (Academy Editions, £1.75).

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His instrumental version way back before they became the progressive rock band they just riffs, conjures up the ghost of Otis of Rita Wright's hit "I Can't Give biggest high school band in the Redding far better than the rather Back the Love I Feel For You", world. don't make it. tired version of his " I Can't Turn though, is astonishing for its And so it goes on. There are tw o So what is this, a Get Back move? You Loose" which follows, and is lyricism and unabashed sentiment,, songs by Dennis Wilson, both very A nother Get Back move? Back the band's new single. A t the end of as is the final instrumental soft andstunningly over-orchestrat­ to high school, drag racing, sun, the second side. W inter says "W e "Definitely Maybe", a lovely im­ ed. And two more by Al Jardine sand and surf, California girls, do got a little surprise for you here provisation on the guitar lick and Mike Love, both apparently it again just one more time? N ot tonight... people keep asking me Jimmy Page used for Cocker's about the joys of transcendental even that. All it means is, one 'Where's yer brother?' "... the "Help For My Friends". There's meditation. 'All This is That’ is more Beach Boys album. And not crowd roars, and on comes Johnny also a Dr John-ish Cropper/Beck pleasant enough, though the lyrics a very good one at that. Winter to roar through a sloppy but song called "Sugar Cane", and if are sort of Charles Manson Bib­ powerful version of "Rock and that wasn't enough they also trash The best first, though. One song lical. But 'He Comes Down’, in Roll Hoochie K oo", the song all over Dave Clark's old hit "Glad here is nearly pure high school: praise of the Maharishi, w ith its Derringer wrote fpr him when they All Over". Words fail me. 'Marcella', one of just two songs handclapping gospel chorus and were in Johnny Winter And to­ Charles Shaar Murray. co-written by Brian Wilson. It's shouts of affirmation, is about gether. It's messy, but it's so good at least their best song since 'W ild Black & White Minstrel Show in to hear Johnny Winter again that Honey', and, in the context of this its em otional intensity and depth I've got my blind ear to the speak­ [As habitual readers of this particular album, completely of commitment. ers. magazine will be aware, Charles stratospheric. The lyrics are good So Tough? Well, it certainly isn't Shaar Murray's concluding words too. 'One arm over my shoulder/ During the marathon version of that. But that's not really surprising in the above review are o f some sandals dance at m y feet/ eyes "Tobacco Road" that takes up most significance. A t no single point when you consider how many almost that knock you right over/ ooo of side three, Derringer takes a long during the course of OZ's lengthy almost pure muzak albums the Marcella's so sweet'. acapella guitar solo that is probably (and at times frankly bizarre) re­ Beach Boys have made since Pet the most rapid piece of electric lationship with this retired school­ Sounds: every single one of them , child, have words ever been known 'Marcella' is probably a number guitar playing that I can remember excepting only Wild Honey. And to fail him. We can only offer one, except that it isn't out as a hearing. It'll probably become a set- while it's true that no-one writes our astonished congratulations single yet, and probably never will piece for aspiring Claptons to have to Mr. Beck. - Ed.] be. Kinney probably passed it Beach Boys m uzak like Brian to master in some horrific Rock over as uncharacteristic of the Wilson — which is why this album Conservatory of the future. Edgar 'new' Beach Boys. Which is, un­ doesn't touch Pet Sounds — in also acquits himself impressively CARL & THE PASSIONS- fortunately, a fairly accurate the long run m uzak is no more on saxophone and piano, though SO TO U G H assessment. The single they did than m uzak, and supermarket the second half of his piano solo is The Beach Boys choose, 'You Need a Mess of Help sound systems don't draw such marred by his insistence on scatting (Reprise) to Stand Alone' is alright, but fine distinctions. So let's just be along with it. Derringer is a speedy certainly not a number one. May­ thankful that nowand again they little punk with an awesome can come up w ith a song like The cover of this album is a shiny be, though, the 'new' Beach Boys command of his. instrument and a 'Marcella', and leave them to a red car door. Through the car win­ don't want a number one. it lot of neat tricks, but all the really peaceful rock senility. dow you can see the beach, the might damage their new-found great rock guitarists have either a sea, a couple of trees, cloudy blue underground prestige irreperably. A ndrew Weiner. demon or an angel inside them. With the exception of Garcia, most of them are demons and none more so than Jeff Beck. Since his last album . Beck has it brought in an outside producer, Steve Cropper, no less. Unlike Rough and Ready, this one features some real songs, like Don Nix's "Going Down", Dylan's "Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You", and a couple of Motown standards. "Going Down" cuts Nix's own version to pieces and comes near to equalling the version Stone the Crows use for their encore. The trouble is still in the vocal depart­ ment. In performance, Bob Tench's rasping, tuneless soul vocals fit in with the riotous vibes put out by the rest of the band, but in the more sober environment of the home, he sounds very uncomfort­ able. Max Middleton's lucid, jazzy piano serves as a most effective contrast to all the mavhem and brutality that surrounds it.

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self excavated lairs. The pot trail certainly needs gay liberationists and activists of every Kind. There is a general lack of awareness of the political implications of being a freak. d) The psilocybin mushrooms, known to the Balinese as ‘wong’, which grew every­ where it was moist and there was enough cow shit, were much smaller than those growing along the entire Australian east coast, but were equally good and quite the best and safest psychedelic I have ever taken. For lOp you could buy thirty or so (plenty for a good trip) wrapped up in a palm leaf or plastic bag on the beach every morning from one of the mushroom sellers who picked them from the rich cow pastures near where the first river flowed into the sea, or you could get them your­ self for nothing. In the wet season (Dec­ ember to March) they are everywhere in thousands, but thereafter slightly more scarce, and I think the wong sellers were into a bit of cow shit irrigation. The wong were small and white, sometimes with gold tops, turning turauoise after picking, the colour indicating the strength of the psilocybin in each one. It was best to eat them fresh and raw. This gave some in­ dication of how many you should eat to get off properly. Sometimes they were toxic, making you feel slightly queasy for the first half hour or so. It was always best to exercise caution. The great advantage of the mushrooms over acid was that you could take them continuously for several days without scramblingyour head, en­ abling you to give yourself a rapid course A general lack of awareness of the political implications of being a freak in psychedelic therapy. Free yourself from the plague of self-consciousness for a week and you’ll be amazed at what you slowly and their bad, who move quickly. c) The presence of police in Kuta is not are capable of. There were one or two The whole life of the Balinese is tne most noticeable but once we were warned of a minor disasters among the mushroom magical and graceful ceremony. The raid and they poked around a bit w ithout eaters — one very unstable American scat­ vibrations which they give off are almost finding anything. Three guys were busted tered his head and his belongings all over always very loving and good, but occasion-! in the town of Ubud for possession of the beach and had to be strapped down ally inexplicably bad. The Barong and Kris ganga, and each served 7 days in Denpasar after his fifth day of absurd over indulge Dance was performed at Kuta with in­ gaol. They enjoyed the experience, the ence. However, by the time his parents creasing frequency and intensity while I dope, the food and the company (lots of flew in from Boston to rescue him he had was there, to exorcise bad spirits which Balinese political prisoners in for life) and completely recovered — but nothing were coming from the sea. The dancers were treated with great courtesy. They serious and although I ate them until I went into violent trances and many other were allowed to choose the day they felt my blood had turned to psilocybin Balinese were affected, running round in started their sentences, and one of them and almost disappeared into a mushroom the moonlight quite crazed, possessed and was almost permitted to serve his time in cloud, I never once felt that I had taken dem onic. Kuta as he had his foot in plaster. Some­ too many. Psilocybin has none of the dark times a few soldiers would wander corners of acid and I recommend the The Bad Things: around, looking like big green insects in mushrooms as one of the very best ways tight boots, tight pants and cap, with a) The only easy way of getting around huge goggles and white gun holsters. of learning to love and know yourself, the island is by motor bike. Walking is your fellow man and Bali. delightful but slow. You could rent a d) By far the worst side of Indonesian Honda for a week for under £5 and noisily bureaucracy you are likely to encounter I started off my experiments alone on a is the Immigrasi. You get a visa for a far flung beach, found myself naked, and rapidly go anywhere. The Balinese in the country wave and cry hello and still month maximum to start off with, then communing with the sea, the land and the it will cost you 20 dollars for a month’s elements, returning to primitivism and regard them with some wonder, but they are too powerful for the roads, and extension. If you last that long, the doing jungle yells. Everything at all times second extension is not so expensive, but was very exciting and beautiful, and Bali Kuta was full of casualties ranging from broken ankles and dislocated spines, to you are in trouble if you overstay your quite the island paradise advertised in the visa — a fine and maybe detention in a Quantas brochures. Gradually, as the days innumerable abrasions and cuts which don’t heal in the humid tropical air. kind of government hostel in Denpasar passed, I became more sophisticated and until you can arrange for money to be returned to the fold until eventually I was Malaise and indefinable equatorial sick­ nesses were common. I found the mush­ sent to you. The detention centre is cavorting and dancing on the main beach, rooms were a good cure for anything. actually quite OK and some freaks pre­ hopefully to everyone’s delight, not that ferred to stay their free rather than rent I would have known or cared, dressed up b) The Hotel Bali Beach, a self-contained, a room. There were several people at in brightly coloured sarongs and every air conditioned monstrosity, erected by Kuta, without visas or money, living other bit of tat I had the foresight to put PanAm, fortunately on the eastern side of the island, is a foretaste of what the Indo­ quite happily somewhere out along the on. I became a cheap cabaret artist . beaches. I overstayed my visa and was T h at’s what happened to me. I think the nesian Government has in mind for Bali, and Kuta in particular. Plans for a similar stopped from getting on the plane. Even same thing happened to everyone else, though I shouted and argued with an each in his own fashion. The Balinese multi-storey hotel have already been approved and construction starts within official who looked like a Japanese war liked the freaks to take the mushrooms, commander, and eventually offered to even when 50 of them together rampaged a year. At the moment, the Hotel Bali Beach, which sits on a rather ugly lagoon ay a fine right there, my baggage was and picnicked through the coconut auled off. He merely barked at me over groves. at Sanur, is a great convenience, and we made use of its banks, tourist agents, and over again “You have broken the doctor and post office. It was the com- regulations of the Republic of Indonesia. e) Some people got becalmed in the Kuta You must appear in court tomorrow at dope fog, but all of Bali is breathtakingly laints of the matrons who stay at this otel which brought about the regulation 8 o’clock in tne morning.” I did so. The lovely. There are active volcanoes — I judge was polite, listened to my fabricat­ managed to climb up into the steam filled requiring Balinese women to cease going around topless. Now the markets are full ion and fined me ten dollars. I said I only crater of Mount Batur and got stuck in had six. The fine was reduced to six, my the lava field overnight — hot springs of pink and purple cotton bras which the visa was extended for two more days, beautiful temples, monkey forests, beaches women, at least in the towns, mostly wear. and I eventually departed, extremely sad far more golden and deserted than Kuta, Wherever freaks go, there is always that to leave, and already full of incipient hep­ sculptured rice terraces which put English last days of the Roman Empire feeling — atitis. That’s another bad thing about landscape gardening to shame, music and the barbarians are always at the gates and Bali — yet another serpent in the Garden dancing almost every night, and 01 course, about to tear down the walls. Your exist­ of Eden — wash your hands well after the Balinese with their frangipani in their ence is ephemeral and always you know you have a shit, and take some toilet paper hair, and their good spirits who move that at some point you have to move on. with you. jjm Anderson water sofas - velvet beanbag chairs-madras spreads-afghani pillows

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