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Show Headline Extremists idotic dogma will fry us all need for a nonexistent frontier. Result? A Berserker, crowded beyond be-yond all 'human limits, with no place to go except Rebellion City rejection of Plastic Society as unreal. un-real. When the dam breaks, hydro-electricity hydro-electricity becomes a flood. One might point out that hatred is an extremely hard thing to maintain without Constant reinforcement, rein-forcement, either from a peer group or common hardship. This is certainly one of the roots of Rock culture and Identity 'in alienated alien-ated Youth. Obviously, no one is going to remove youth culture by violence, save in the extreme case of genocide (not that some people peo-ple don't consider that an option, but there is strong indication that the people who started the whole mess burning are trying to make us a kept group. The Ad man never nev-er sleeps. Our Cult ure ds already in danger of becoming the modern mod-ern Amerindian, kept on reservations reserva-tions by economic manipulation and a sullen intolerance. We stand at the edge of a breach. Alternative is a word of the past. By establishing a culture of our own, we have forced a war. We cannot be enslaved and reaction from 'the Living Dead is driving us deeper and deeper into unalterable alienation. The time is coming when we must put up or shut up. Can you return to the plastic and neon world? Can you escape it? Can you afford the consequences of unthinking action? At first we thought we cmh start a new culture in the skekte of the old. We learned better it the Days of the Flower, win or culture was brutally assaulted it the midst of its innocence m peace. Always remember this: It were attacked without waraiif even as we talked of peace as love, victims of that tradition i humanity's oldest Iraditjon, t one that says no gentle past shall survive. The question now S should we live and die in vMk defense of the peace we advocate or should we demonstrate our ex cern for what we believe in by if fusing to commit the atrocitiesi; abhor? It 'is insufficient to riot i favor of our views. In the facet' heavily armed and nuraericallyS perior opposition, we caiK achieve anything but death. I have no solutions. All 1 W is I do not desire civil war, p groms or Fascism. I parti do not want some wild-eyed b wit who has traded his mind If a ringing phrase or two bntgt about my demise. The misraa ment of my life is a personal fair. So, a slogan, dedicated I those flame-tongued, saluting tt tremists of both Left and W who by idiotic dogmatism surely fry us all: I say fc 1 Brothers (though my shame 1 having such nucrocqto Hons is extreme), not Wf War!" but, "Start the Peace. BY HD KOBERSON An impersonal calculus of unreason. unrea-son. It's a fairly well-known fact that the opposite poles of a magnet are attracted to one another. The same can be said of political polarityextreme po-larityextreme left and right are virtually indistinguishable in tactic tac-tic and action, if not in official line. Moderates and the nations of sheep are are killing each other off, due mainly to misunderstanding andor lack of communication caused by extremists. Fanatics pulled toward an inevitable violent vio-lent contact are carrying us all down with them. As more and more people are forced to the extremes by increased violence and misrepresentation, misrep-resentation, ideological issues are becoming less and less living principles prin-ciples and more and more canonized canon-ized slogans. Mindless opposition is substituted for philosophical difference dif-ference and murder roams unchecked un-checked through the streets. A slogan slo-gan is a tool, not a substitute for thinking. It is interesting that few of our youth pacifists are Willing to die non-violently. This 'is, I think, an indication of a lack of faith in the principles being contested. As a matter of blunt fact, no principle now being fought over seems to have engendered that sort of respectmost re-spectmost being used in the simple sim-ple sense of a justification and the truths that used to make hatred are just so much straw. This is true of Right and Left. Much New Left criticism of the Old Right is concerned with the falseness of traditional standards. So you hate the Establishment, eh? Normal enough, but. Perhaps you are an unknowing victim of the Wall Street Behemoth. Notice No-tice how ads of all sorts stress freedom and getting out of the crowd, while simultaneously selling sell-ing multiple million mass-produced items identical in form? You were programmed as a child to expect freedom in the midst of a oonformist socialization and to use slogans to express emphatic need. Now psych Frankenstein's monster: Add enforced need to non-conform to the Great Western Belief in Purpose and a Platonic : Pie in the Sky, mix in the basic i drabness of a mass-production society, so-ciety, then stir with a reinforced |