Civilization Is Unbearable, But It

Hippies Started The Ecology Movement. They Combated Racism. They Liberated Sexual Stereotypes, Encouraged Change, Individual Pride, And Self-confidence. They Questioned Robot Materialism. In Four Years They Managed To Stop The Vietnam War. They Got Marijuana Decriminalized In Fourteen States During The Carter Administration.

My Advice To Myself And To Everyone Else, Particularly Young People, Is To Turn On, Tune In And Drop Out. By Drop Out, I Mean To Detach Yourself From Involvement In Secular, External Social Games. But The Dropping Out Has To Occur Internally Before It Can Occur Externally. I'm Not Telling Kids Just To Quit School; I'm Not Telling People To Quit Their Jobs. That Is An Inevitable Development Of The Process Of Turning On And Tuning In.

Think For Yourself And Question Authority.

Throughout Human History, As Our Species Has Faced The Frightening, Terrorizing Fact That We Do Not Know Who We Are, Or Where We Are Going In This Ocean Of Chaos, It Has Been The Authorities - The Political, The Religious, The Educational Authorities - Who Attempted To Comfort Us By Giving Us Order, Rules, Regulations, Informing - Forming In Our Minds - Their View Of Reality. To Think For Yourself You Must Question Authority And Learn How To Put Yourself In A State Of Vulnerable Open-mindedness, Chaotic, Confused Vulnerability To Inform Yourself.

We Cannot Study The Brain, The Instrument For Fabricating The Realities We Inhabit, Using The Mental Constructs Of The Past.