We Didn't Invent The Grateful

Music Goes Way Back Before Language Does. And Music Is Like The Key To A Whole Spiritual Existence Which This Society Doesn't Even Talk About. We Know It's There. The Grateful Dead Plays At Religious Services Essentially. We Play At The Religious Services Of The New Age. Everybody Gets High, And That's What It's All About Really. Getting High Is A Lot More Real Than Listening To A Politician. You Can Think That Getting High Actually Did Happen - That You Danced, And Got Sweaty, And Carried On. It Really Did Happen. I Know When It Happens. I Know It When It Happens Every Time.

The Reality Which Is Pretending Be Reality Right Now, Impersonating Reality, Is Just A Pretty Flimsy Structure. There Is Not A Lot Of Substance To It. You Can't Find People Who Are Actively Involved Of Affected By It. What You See Is A Completely Different World, What You See Is The World Of The Homeless, And So Forth.

The Real Problems Are Cultural. The Problems Of The People Who Take Drugs As A Cultural Trap - I Think There's A Real Problem There, The Crack Stuff, The Hopelessness Of The Junkie. The Urban Angst.

It's Pretty Clear Now That What Looked Like It Might Have Been Some Kind Of Counterculture Is, In Reality, Just The Plain Old Chaos Of Undifferentiated Weirdness.

America Is Still Mostly Xenophobic And Racist. That's The Nature Of America, I Think.