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[edit] What the fuck am I doing here and what is all this shit?
That is an excellent question.
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If you click on "edit", you will be able to edit the content of that page. Like I just did.
If you click on a page link that you created, you will create that page.
It's really pretty cool, actually. It's as if we're all sharing a giant notebook in a big field. We can come and go, but the notebook, stretching 70 yards, is always open to all its pages, and you're likely to be one of a hundred or so (or more) other people right there with you, pens in hand.
Here are some good tips for editing, and there is a Editing Help link at the bottom of every page, which opens a popup window, making it great to reference as you're typing.
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The book itself is all about now. First of all, as anyone who knows me will tell you, I hate the hippies. Fortunately for me, it gets easier each year to explain why. As of now, I can simply direct you to the commercials for investment firms that play "All You Need Is Love" in order to explain myself.
Ah, but Abbie Hoffman was a Yippee.
But that's not the point either. The point is, a lot of good things, memorable things came out of those years. And the best way, I think, in these days, to catch someone's attention is with nostalgia. And it doesn't hurt to be able to harken back to some good old days of social power, either.
Other than that, I'd ask you, what the fuck are you doing here and what is all this shit?
What is this shit out there on the news every night, and what is happening about it? What is happening to our poorest, our most honest, our most intelligent individual citizens?
And, you, what are you doing here? Just that you're here means you have something to offer. Have you read the original text in full? Can you relate to that kind of situation, any of those situations, in any way?
I can, even most humbly and in such small ways. But I can. And despite all the fucking blogs and all the fucking web 2.0 sharing out there, we need a handbook. We need this one thing, and we need it to transcend the internet, to get out into hands, into those who can identify with so much more of that original text than I can, those hands.
This is for all the What Is Going On Out There?
So far, I'm thanking Abbie Hoffman, Hunter S. Thompson, David Amram, Emma Goldman, Pelerine, Neil Young, Jack Kerouac, Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, John Lennon, Sylvia Plath, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Edgar Allan Poe, Scientz of unknown2scientz, Stephen Crane, Jackson Pollack, Henry Miller, The Chicago 7, Tristan Egolf, Litnrod, ellipsis, zygoteinmycoffee, Asher (good times), and all those others, you others, for the idea and the thought that it might work.
I'm sure you've each got a million names who are behind your reason to be here. Lets hear it, here.
