...It’s a great puzzle, I mean all of you who have children, and I have two,
know that we are alienated intellectuals...
...I mean broadly speaking, this is what we are, and so we bitch about the government and we
critique the monetary system and so forth and so on...
...Well then you see your children on the bring of reason and then you say, you know
“Jeez, my alienation has brought me alienation, but I can’t let the kids grow up to be marks, to be
pawns of the propaganda and market machine”
people scratching their heads trying to figure out whether they’re Republicans or Democrats...
...I can’t put that on my children...
...So then you say “Ok then, they must join in the alienation,
they must be taken out of the culture
as we were taken out of the culture”
...And this is a momentous decision because this act of separating of the culture is unambiguously
alienating, and yet it seems to be the only way to find the self...
...Otherwise you never contact the self, you contact a commodified cartoon of the self,
that finds meaning in outboard motors, and basketball, and you know,
all this other crap that’s peddled as reality...
...So our relationship to our culture I think is a very uncomfortable one, and of course,
psychedelics exacerbate this.
...And you know I think if you have children, it’s one thing to talk alienation...
you know Kafka said a wonderful thing, I think it’s 'In The Penal Colony' he said:
And that’s sort of the dilemma in which we find ourselves...
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