Slow-Motion Vietnam Flashback
08/06/04 HAIGHT-ASHBURY, Nineteen Sixty-something
Oh wow, man, it's the Summer of Love, and The Man is raining orange brimstone on the yellow heathens over there and the hippie heathens back here with equal gusto. Bingo, jingo, the fight is on, can you dig it?
Hear the music, see the music, be the music, breathe the music, dance to the whoopwhoopwhoop of the helicoper blades, the pale green video of pale green uniforms in pale green jungles with bright red blood, brighter than real blood, brighter even than movie blood. Death to the Establishment, cold, steel, death.
What are the baby killers in the jungles and paddies fighting for, but The Establishment?--the psychotic neofascist racist sexist (we haven't come up with "homophobic" yet) criminal imperial Establishment.
@#$% What the hell was that? Gotta be a flashback. But that was twenty, no thirty...no, thirty-five fuckin years ago. (Who knew it could stay in your system so long?) %$#@
Lieutenant John Fitzgerald-Kennedy Heinz-Kerry, reporting for duty, sir. Gung-ho for glory, sir. Present, Zippo! About, face! Ready, aim, fire! Burn, baby, burn. Literally.
Second Incarnation of future CIA Director George Bush, reporting for duty, sir. Ready, willing, and able to captain a speedboat, throw back a pint, toot!toot!toot! (*hic!*sniff*) Watch this drive, daddy-o!
@#$% Never should've re-read that Aldous Huxley-it must've knocked an old molecule loose. Or was it hearing (insert iconic sixties folk/rock/folk-rock song) on (insert computer-programmed classic oldies station) this morning? %$#@
Domino theory, manifest destiny, entwined like the cascading psychedelic coils of deoxyribonucleic acid-acid trip, acid rock, acid personality, acid itself, ACID it's SELF, ass/id its elf. He ain't heavy, they are a-changin, what is it good for? Absolute nothingness, nothing's absolute.
Peace good, war bad, bad war. Sit, war, sit. Sit-in, be-in, drop-in, drop-out, dropoff, drop dead complex, Military-industrial. Psychototalitarian Cultural industry, Political industry, Spiritual industry, Democracy industry. Demonocracy.
This is the end, beautiful friend, the end, the end of laughter and of light. The West IS the best, get in, and we'll do the rest. Driver, WHERE YOU TAKIN US??
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