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the media exists on conflict and confrontation. Uh, if they can get a couple of people going at it, they can sell a lot of newspapers, they can sell a lot of television you get so that this pyramid that's going on right here like this, up to

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here, you recognize, up here at this end of the pyramid, you will always eventually find Kennedy or martin Luther king or Manson or Malcolm X at the end of this american pyramid, that information flows from this point out like that. Well, it don't, uh, And it's,

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it's, it's into us so deep. I mean, right now, if we decide to change their minds about, it's going to take us 10 years to back out of it. Uh, and you know, we're doing it almost instinctively, but think of the arena that you guys furnish

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for all the papers, I mean, there are more cops this year, more newspaper writers and everything that the people, lot of people whose livelihood depends on Berkeley doing their thing every year, I go against somebody right face to face against him, then I'm, I'm working for

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the other side. I'm just, I'm just, you know, battling against me and there's, I don't know, there's no solutions, but there's that realization of just any time, you feel that thing, you know, which is very macho, it's true. But uh, just, you know, if we can,

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because all the, those, there's old people out there and they're freaked, They're totally freaked and it's going to take people very softly and gently going to them and letting them know that, you know, they still have a part in existence. He said. The only thing he

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wanted included on his body consistently vote not only against the war in Vietnam, but against all military appropriations for the past several years. I am finding today that this position is no longer an isolated position. There are a growing number of congressmen who are getting religion

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and I hope that this year or next year that we will have a majority of the members of the United States Congress who will finally wake up to the fact that this society today is being run by the generals in the pentagon and that this ain't

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healthy. I have come to the conclusion that the war is really nothing more than a symptom of what is wrong with our society. I reached this conclusion some time ago and I have sought to use the war and the policies that have involved us and keep

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us in this war as a means of educating the electorate of the state of California as to what needs to be done if we are really to achieve the kind of a society which we thought we wanted in this country. Because as long as the war

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goes on in Vietnam, we can't achieve that. And as long as the policies that led us into Vietnam are the controlling policies of this country, we will never succeed in achieving the goals which we think we are seeking in this country. We will never achieve the

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abolition of racism, the abolition of poverty, the achievement of freedom. We will never achieve any of these things. As long as the policies which led us into Vietnam are the policies that dominate this country. The politicians are the creatures of those who hold power today. They're

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the creatures of those whose power has got to be curtailed or removed. And that generally means that about 90% of the politicians are going to have to be removed. Um I'm afraid that what I am telling you is is a long range program which goes beyond

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the the political action of the next three weeks for the next three months or so on. Because in order to really secure lasting change of the sort that I'm talking about and the sort that I know that you're interested in. We're going to have to change

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the attitudes of 200 million people. We're going to have to change the lifestyle of 200 million people. We're going to have to reject the kind of values which now dominate this society. And this means that you are going to have to make a commitment to work

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towards that goal. I don't know how long it will take. I think we have make the universities democratically controlled instruments for relevant education in the world as it is today. Are you running? Yeah, I think you are. Hello? Hello. Sounds very echoey level check at the

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beginning of the summer session and at the beginning of the fall quarter. Nobody will go through the administration's process of paying money for the privilege of having grades recorded in the registrar's office. What we should do is set up a people's counter registration, which is just

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like we do with the experimental college courses center for participant education, which is each professor has a certain number of seats first come, first served regardless of whether you have a red card or not. That was, that was an issue. That became a real strange issue.

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I said I was drunk last night. I'm hungover. Now there's a real difference. It's, it's, it's finally obvious to more and more people and instead of, you know, Bogart and stuff, you go ahead and assume that, you know, it's one and then, you know, take it

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easy with the people because you can't bring them along too fast now. Well, let's see. I'll just, I'll tell stories that come up. All right. And there was this girl and she looked like, you know, she's been doing speed for about three years and she's got

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really bright bright eyes and short red hair and she was just coming on and foam at the edge of her mouth. And uh, this other guy who was really sullen slow guy, he looked like a jail tattoo And they had this little baby with him. It

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was about 18 months old and you know, Yeah, it's been really mellow and nice room because I got the windows in the barn and I'll tell you another thing, here's another thing, it's a good a good idea is I found that you know, you get to

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thinking about something I was building in the house, I was building, we moved into the barn and I was working in the barn there and I've been taking a lot of speed and I go in there and do a lot of work in the bar and

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I come back and lay down and try to uh go to sleep and I couldn't go to sleep because I started thinking yeah, tomorrow I'll go in there and I'll put down the linoleum and I'll put up those things that hangs and then they'll be beautiful

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and and some of those that tile on the thing and then I would flash man, I'm never gonna do that. And besides, I'm only doing it as a media shot because I know that it will look good to somebody instead of do I really want to

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do it. And so it's like I'm incurring debts out there of making these plans, you know, making these idealistic absolutes that I'm gonna either have to go ahead and do or feel disappointed because I don't know, but I couldn't stop thinking about it and I woke

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up and read uh Franny and Zooey which I hadn't read In like seven years and Franny and Zooey uh Franny is reading this little book called The Way of the pilgrim which has nothing in it called the jesus prayer, jesus prayer is this little guy is

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just a little Russian peasant and he wonders around saying nothing except Lord jesus christ have mercy on my soul all the time until he's finally saying it all the time and he's finally saying in his head all the time and after he does it in his

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head, you know it kind of drops into his heart and he's doing it all the time. Well I just started laying there on speed, just doing it over and over. Lord jesus christ have mercy on my soul. Lord jesus christ have mercy on my soul. Lord

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jesus christ have mercy on my soul. Lord jesus christ have mercy on my soul until all this other garbage that I was thinking stopped and I found my head over in a new place, Other stuff could come in because I wasn't just going to crank, crank,

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crank, crank, crank, crank crank and I could open it up like that and then I could find myself in a different place and so uh now like you know it's it's you know it's very nervous uh edgy time, you can feel it in that building where

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we just came from. That's another thing I tell you when I was in this thing in Cincinnati and the only member of congress took the fire going and we're just sitting around drinking apple wine and it's really nice and here's suddenly these people are, they want

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to come into the house and they're telling me, well, mainly got this little baby and the baby is just crying like mad, his nose is running, They've been hitchhiking all the way from Albuquerque with this little baby, That little that you can tell by the way

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they were holding him. It's like holding out a hitchhiking sign, that was the way they were. You know, just hold him up with the nap of the next. So you got a baby, pick us up. Uh, and it pissed me off then, but I was really

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trying hard not to do that at the time because I took a vow on new years after getting in a lot of fights last year, uh, to try not to get piste off, to try not to get angry, to do what I could just keep getting

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angry because every time I do I get in trouble and then get my hand broken stuff. So, so I said, come on in and they really, you know, they were really wasted. They've been going from pillar to post and and they were, you know that you

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could tell how tired they were. It was like the end of the line and the baby was crying, something awful. A lot of the mucus running out of him. And finally my wife said, listen, because the baby had bad diarrhea said, listen, would you like some

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ketchup spectate and the girl says you can't dope, my baby. I had this baby, my natural childbirth, what's the matter? What are you trying to disguise? So shut up, why don't you? And they want this whole thing and might get all of us looked at each

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other back and forth and they were there like a question and I walked up and down and said look you people you know, you've been talking about how bad it was yesterday and when you leave here, you're going to talk about how bad it was here

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and how people have been shipping on. You have people been coming down on you. Well it's gonna be worse tomorrow just because of your stance because your karmic direction and unless you do something about it, you're going to go out. You know, just you're just flat

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gonna go out, it's gonna be worse time tomorrow and if you come back again, next life is gonna be worse. And then finally you may even come back another thing and just, you know, you felt like they were on their way out, they were just gonna

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just dwindling off into a disappearance and I was down in L. A. And what we can do about it and what how I think you can avoid it because I think it's it's due and it comes from the media and it happens like this and I

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was no kidding and there's a away, I think that, that we can keep out of it because pretty soon you get to know uh the guy, the exploitive microphone, the microphone that comes up and he sticks up there and he's asking you a question, but he's

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only registered in certain stuff that has to do with news, which is sex and dope and a certain other little very limited thing. And that's the only feedback that's coming through the media, which is, you know, so tainted because of this. Um, because people who work

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for the media, you want to keep their job going and which means, you know, you've got to find something that sells newspapers which is fires and murders and all sorts of bum ship, which you end up eventually looking for and finally find somebody to provide these

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things for you. So that all the people who are reading the media, the only feedback they're getting is that this is the kind of people they are. And to start a whole new thing of feedback, a positive feedback thing will be having to step out of

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this this pyramidal form which were used to doing because it's kind of nice to be a star, but step out into it and it all breaks down and confuse