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Show Thejolmnist AottingSystem Of Laws English, now a brittle cast, engulfed en-gulfed and tied with bonds of social restraint and custom lost, lost. And America becomes complex. The Bourgeois family "begins to establish es-tablish itself. Laws are past, laws are past. Licenses cost, inspection condemns until the fresh blood is sucked from enterprise. Source of Sinecures When position was up for grabs in the past, talent answered, but now the sons of wealth buys importance. im-portance. It is a rotting system supported by laws, laws, laws. In the past a man who had dreams and drive set up shop and if he had the qualities to succeed, he did. Now before a man can set up shop he must comply with laws. He must buy a license, register with the state, check zoning, pass government inspections only to end up in court because a rival wished to stop him. Not legally, but by laws. Man is ke t court until he has expand energy and monies. And next year the Con pas a thousand new laws ; Take a teenager y drunk 50 years ago he got a7! ; Today he is sent to a jUven branded and given scar J remain on his record for is not one normal bov in a who would not be brande quent if the authorities Watc Jf , and applied all the laws th I? been made. nat Laws make criminals late failures. Laws, laws, C ' laws. Say not that the de rate went up 10 per cent delinquency law rate wew " i per cent. Vague laws that d-Y construed to restrict anything Madsen: Anarchist! Old Man: No, I seek the mean between anarchy and i& By STEVE MADSEN and JOEL KESTEK Old Man: Anguish, oh, anguish! can I not burden the ears of the deaf? Kester: Gad! What voice issues from this desk, spiderwebbed corner cor-ner of the Huddle? Old Man: The crippled poet, reduced re-duced to poverty by the jutebox, because I give no songs when coins are dropped into my cup. Madsen: But what anguish do you suffer, palsied pauper? Old Man: I suffer sight! Kester : You speak as if blindness was a virtue? Old Man: It is better to be ignorant ignor-ant of one's unhappiness than knowledgable of cruel facts and to add to the burn of my thoughts, no one listens. Madsen: Speak then! Modern Fossils Old Man: The ancient trilobite. The garnished shell adorned the sand of the ancient seas. Then death it encountered in mass, and only the stony form of death remains. re-mains. Tt existed simply at one time until nature rendered it so complex that it became inflexible to change. Kester: Why speak of the past, only the withered mind of age dotes on dead happenings. Old Man: Yea, but the present is such a slender time that we must live half in the future and half in the past. Kester : Oh, you mean that a freeway free-way exit follows the signs? That the past is only a used future? A map? Old Man: Yea, and this extinct bug speaks yet to us, for as it went, so goes our society. The strong |
