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you cant buy
anything anywhere
without taking part
in your own death plan
the thing is
you get deeply entangled in thinghood
instead of manhood
because as soon as
you conduct a
money transaction
someones income increases
and blop blop percent of
that income goes
for military splendor
and as soon as you buy
and all the forces are working day and night
radiating the buy buy message
and its been going on for ten thousand years
and its hard to resist
as soon as you buy
you get deeply entangled in thinghood
instead of manhood
the entire money system
has to go bye bye
into the history of grotesque torture and
violence
physical violence
barter is not
the solution
it is
the free society
it is the
free society
it is the
moneyless society
in which
what is produced
is used
by anybody
who needs it
all useless production will cease
because of our luscious needs
and what we make we need
and we use it
and if you dont want to wok
you do something else
nobody does anything
he doesnt want to
i will clean the sewers
because they get smelly
and we may even
have too may sewer cleaners
because its a gas
and we dig
the smell
you see
we are going to change everything
everything is free
it doesnt cost anything
there is no money
and we dig the smell
because we
cannot be as
we are now
and be any
closer to god
i will love harry anslinger and all
the cops and judges
and science and technology will serve us
they will not dominate
why
because they will no longer be the weapons
of plutocracy and autocracy
but the dear mechanisms of love
when
the economy
will not change
until the people change and change it
the people will
not change tonight
but we will in the morning
Julian Beck
Illustration: Atlanta Wiggs