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“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines,
don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space
and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your
universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton
or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away
to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you
want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this
kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is
you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms,
your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're
unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get
a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that
game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the
cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron
consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a
dying world.”
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