Consciousness Across the Void; reel 2 of 3, July 1973 & June 1975

You are now listening to Consciousness Across the Void, and I am Peter Stokely. We have Homer Humbug in our studios with us today, and he's going to say a few words a little bit later. I've been interested in listening to the news on the radio. I've listened to News Radio 78 WBBM AM News Radio in Chicago at 3 o 'clock in the morning, and they say all kinds of interesting things at 3 o 'clock in the morning that you don't hear at 5 .30 in the evening, you know, for two or three weeks afterwards. So as a result, sometimes I actually know the script of world events, oh two, three weeks in advance. For example, two weeks ago, or even also three weeks ago, on this program, you heard the following news announcement. A small

band of highly organized international terrorists is reigning death and destruction over vast regions of Southeast Asia this afternoon. It is believed that the terrorists are using jet -propelled B -52 aircraft in their frenzied and unprovoked attacks upon the people of Southeast Asia. It is believed that the terrorists have infiltrated the White House itself, and it is reported that White House facilities and personnel are being used in a number of illegal operations, including wiretapping, burglary, extortion, and sabotage of free elections, as well as the terror bombing in Southeast Asia. News censorship and news blackout has been imposed upon North America, and the people of North America

are not being told what is occurring in Southeast Asia. Authorities, a few radio stations, however, continue to broadcast the truth. Authorities say they do not know how long it will be before order is restored. Well, about a week after the last time I, incidentally, that's still occurring, terror bombing continues in Southeast Asia. But it's beginning to come out in the newspaper and on the television articles about a remarkably similar tone and similar substance, too. It's been revealed that illegal bombing occurred in Cambodia between 1969 and 1971 that President Nixon knew about the bombing, and it wasn't reported that he ordered the

bombing, but presumably he did, and that it was literally completely kept from the American people. The American people were not told that Cambodia was being bombed. The United States continues to kill these people in the name of democracy and continues to not tell the people in the United States what is going on, consequently denying them any possibility of making a decision about whether they think bombs and napalm should be rained down upon the people of Cambodia, and in democracy, of course, the people would, A, be told about such events, and, B, be given some choice in whether or not it should occur, and yet, the terror bombing continues in the name of democracy. Another interesting occurrence where I

anticipated the news, of course, I'm not saying that I am influencing these events in any way, although that is my intent, I would like to influence these events, I would like to influence the Cambodia terror bombing in the direction of getting it stopped, for example. And another interesting news item I also told about these crews of, the President Nader had ordered crews of, they look like garbage trucks, these big white garbage trucks, but really they're the automobile disposal units, and whenever they row through towns, oh, 20 or 30 of them at a time will come in on the interstate into a town somewhat like Columbia, and they will gather up any abandoned automobiles they find and process them right there on the spot, the truck is equipped with a complete processing

plant, and out the back end comes some The claw in the front picks up abandoned automobiles and loads them into the hopper in the back, and the truck can convert approximately 10 ,000 automobiles an hour into 100 ,000 bicycles. And recently I've been hearing on Chicago that just this is occurring, that they are gathering up abandoned automobiles and disposing of them. Of course they do not define what they mean by an abandoned automobile. As far as I'm concerned, if somebody parks his car to go to a grocery store or something like that, leaves his car there, well, that's abandoned enough for me. And I would like to, it does give me pleasure to think that these disguised garbage trucks are roving the streets of Chicago processing abandoned automobiles. But I hear these little

news items on WBBM, News Radio Chicago 78. In order to listen to it, you just tune your FM radio to FMZ, then switch your set to AM, and they're on the same frequency, one on FM. FMZ is on FM, WBBM is on AM, and you can only hear them at night due to atmospheric conditions and the fact that they increase power at night. Also, about a month ago, no it was two, possibly three months ago, I predicted that the Nixon impeachment proceedings, that the Watergate hearings would get heavy, that Nixon would very easily and possibly become impeached. And this proceeded to occur. I advocated it because of Nixon's

illegal acts, both in sabotaging the 1972 presidential election, as well as attempting to pack the Supreme Court, attempting to stifle Congress, attempting to stifle dissent in the United States, and attempting, essentially, to create a police state in the United States, and to disregard the Bill of Rights with no -knock laws and other police state measures. Interesting developments, interesting things one learns and picks up if one watches the news, to the Watergate hearings, and so on. Last night, on the CBS Evening News, learned that Nixon has refused to meet with Sam Urban. Now, earlier, Nixon said he would meet with Sam Urban, so Nixon has told, added, compounded still another lie. He said he would meet with Sam Urban, and then he said, no, no, I was

lying. I'm not going to meet with Sam Urban, after all. And this apparently got so many people so incensed, I didn't think the Senate would tolerate such arrogance for even a minute. Now, when I turn on the radio this morning, they say Nixon is considering not meeting with Sam Urban. But yesterday, they announced on CBS News that he definitely would not meet with Sam Urban. So these little events get changed according to the reaction that occurs. If nobody had reacted negatively, or sufficiently negatively, then Nixon would have gone on and refused to meet with Urban. But the outcry that has occurred, another obvious lie from the lips of Nixon, and more of characteristic arrogance that has characterized his administration, now they're saying, well, maybe he won't. But if he hadn't wanted to meet with Urban, he shouldn't have said

he was going to meet with him in the first place. So a pattern of deceit and deception has emerged from the White House. Nixon was, obviously, made literally psychosomatically ill by the Watergate proceedings. Things were just getting so heavy that he could no longer cope with playing president, coming to work every morning and coping with jobs at the White House. So he just rested in the hospital for seven days. And he probably felt quite sick over the impeachment proceedings that were proceeding against him. So Ziegler, or somebody in charge of making up propaganda, decided to tell the people Nixon had viral pneumonia. The theory behind this, obviously, being that the American people are essentially a guilt -ridden crew, and that pretending to be sick, seriously sick,

which viral pneumonia is a serious illness, killing approximately 20 % of the people, Nixon's age, who catch it. Apparently somebody, Ziegler or Nixon or somebody in the White House, figured that claiming to have viral pneumonia would elicit sympathy from the American people and would take the Watergate heat off, that the guilt -tripping American people would feel so much remorse over picking on poor, tricky dick that they would just forget all about impeaching him. Well, it didn't work. And when it didn't work, Nixon decided he'd better drop the viral pneumonia story. So seven days later, seven days after contracting a disease that kills 20 % of the 60 -year -old man who catch it, Nixon was perfectly well and went to work in the office the next morning. A record time for recovering from viral pneumonia. And the thing

is that the newsmen, the people who do know what's going on, the ones that are in the country's elite as far as directing and influencing political events is concerned, are fully aware of this. Your so -called straight news announcers that you hear on the radio, they say, well, Nixon's out of the hospital with his viral pneumonia, chuckle, chuckle, and they know what's going on. And yet they continue to broadcast things that they know are lies. So it is very, very revealing and educational, the Watergate events for anybody that wants to attempt to understand how propaganda works and how totally cynical and fascistic the Nixon regime is. Nixon, they said Nixon was, last night on the news, when they said Nixon had decided not to meet with Irvin, as he had promised he

would. They also said that Nixon had decided to start a counter -attack, a counter -campaign against Watergate. Well, the only counter -campaign he has to start, if he's not guilty, is to come on television, hold a press conference, and tell people his side of the story. But that's too simple. He doesn't want to do that. He wants to start a counter -campaign, but he doesn't want to say anything, which just shows the total cynicism and corruption of the morally bankrupt Nixon regime. You see interesting things on television. On CBS, at five o 'clock last Sunday, they had a replay of Edward R. Murrow's See It Now. Edward R. Murrow was sort of the Walter Cronkite of our parents' generation. I like Edward R. Murrow a lot better than I like Walter Cronkite. And on that broadcast of See It Now,

Murrow took on the McCarthy Inquisitors and held a very courageous broadcast and tried to reveal some of the nasty things they were up to, trying to ruin careers and discredit people for having people in their families that believed in communism. But I think this program is going to be on today at five also. Another Edward R. Murrow See It Now broadcast from CBS back in the 50s. Another thing I saw on the television was the ship that Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Massachusetts 17 years ago this month in 1956. And they had Douglas Edwards flying around in an airplane over the sinking ship and narrating the sinking of the ship. Well, now it's tipping over. Now the

swimming pools are in the water and the funnels are going under and bubbles are coming out. Andrea Doria is sinking. This is 17 years ago. And it's one of the first news events I can remember. I was six years old at the time and I remember reading in a newspaper. I must have just learned how to read about the sinking of the Andrea Doria off the coast of Massachusetts. So it's hard to believe that I can remember 17 years of history. But as I say, this program, consciousness across the void, as far as I know is the only program originating in Columbia in which one who lives in Columbia can hear analysis of national and world events that originates in Columbia when one turns on one's radio or television to a local station and listens to

analysis of events. It's usually tape recorded in New York or Washington or someplace like that and shipped out to the hinterlands here. Sure, Rod Gillette occasionally has analysis on the KOMU television channel 8, but he always analyzes local events. Columbia is the educational center of Missouri. Columbia is a very central region. It's right in the middle of the United States. It's the educational center of the state of Missouri. And as such, it's part of the universe. And now it's time for Homer Humbug Muses. Many of our right -thinking citizens are unaware of Columbia's sweeping history.

Being a man of vast historical learning, Homer Humbug will enlighten right -thinking Colombians of its past. Bear in mind that he has been given artistic license to commit mayhem on the air. Take it away, Homer. Ah, yes, little do they realize what a great citadel of culture their bold dreams would turn into. I'm referring, of course, to our brave pioneering forefathers who founded Columbia. From the large industrial cities of the East, populated mostly by 2D fruities, they set out to the Midwest to find their fame and fortune. They were a band of brave and sturdy adventurers who were led by Eric Maddog Cassidy and the singing wagon masters. Undaunted by the worst sort of adversity, including attacks upon their wagons by wild redskins, they finally reached their destination, the site of Columbia, Missouri. Maddog Cassidy exclaimed when he saw this site,

fair site, future metropolis of the Midwest and Queen of the Ozarks, I christen thee, Columbia. Let no man enter your gates who does not know geometry. And that was the dramatic birth of our fine city, the future cosmopolitan center of the cosmos. In the early days, it was with the sweat off their backs and the exertions of their muscles that our ancestors built the city. Future generations have admirably lived up to the legacy bestowed upon them by Maddog Cassidy, and the progress of Columbia towards the ideal state has been even greater than the progress of Hagel's Prussian state. Columbia has not always been a model city of refinement and culture, however. It was wide open and wild, even as far back as 1968. I need only think of the daring swashbuckling of the firebrand Paul Showalter, or of the intrigues of deed of student Jack Matthews to remind myself of what a frontier town it was back then. Yes, I can say with pride that I live back in that rugged era and I am still alive and kicking. It was the

time that tried men's metal and only the fittest like myself survived. The long history of Columbia's progress has finally culminated in its golden age. It is the Byzantium of the Ozarkia Empire eclipsing such paltry competitors as St. Louis and Jefferson City. It is unfortunate that much of its transient population of pampered students are unaware of its great historical tradition. A tradition covering events as wide as Phil Oaks or The Issue, a newspaper which is now defunct. In order to pay true homage to this eternal city, raise your glasses high at your next party and toast in a crystal clear voice. Here's to Mad Dog Cassidy and his great legacy, our fair city, Columbia. Thank you, Peter. Thank you, Homer. As usual, Homer Humbug promises to accept all responsibility for anything he says. And a group of Jesus freaks

happens to be staying at the house in which I live. There must be 30 of them running around. the presence of these people and a few of them, one of them was talking with me about saving myself and becoming saved. And this inspired me to jot down a few thoughts about Jesus freaks. I wrote this down. It's entitled Speak to Us of Jesus Freaks by Peter Stokely. Incidentally, the Jesus worshipping cults are dying out in North America and presumably in much of the rest of Europe. The article begins. Jesus freaks condemn themselves to an eternity of future trip limbo. That is, they consciously decide to focus their attention and energy upon a place that is not here, namely heaven, and a time that is not now, namely the future,

after they die. We disdain these lumps of matter, our bodies, in which we are imprisoned, they say. And we are not interested in this veil of sorrow, the earth, on which we are stuck for this trial period, which exists only for the purpose of determining whether or not we get to go to heaven. If we are good, we get to go to heaven and live with Jesus forever. If we are bad, big, bad bearded daddy in the sky will pull that trapdoor lever and we will fall all the way to hell. The Jesus cults are based primarily on fear and guilt for this very reason. A Jesus freak believes that if he only asks Jesus into his heart, he becomes quote saved, unquote, and will go to heaven no matter what hideous sins he commits

during the remaining years of his life. Thus it is that the Jesus freak, thus the Jesus freak feels that he can safely commit sins, even though he continues, of course, to be consumed with the guilt he has always felt about the way he has always lived his life, both before and after his melodramatic conversion to Jesus, during which time he supposedly became permanently saved and absolved of any bothersome need to pay any attention to how he lives his life now. Thus it is that a Jesus freak can cheerfully continue to drive an automobile. Even after the ecologists have told him that driving an automobile is not only a sin, but a very serious sin, namely the sin of incest.

After all, screwing one's own mother is incest, and it remains incest, whether we speak in biological terms, biblical terms, anthropological terms, emotional terms, or metaphorical terms. In anthropology class, I learned that all cultures have some form of incest taboo. What they neglected to tell me is that the primitive societies of North America and Western Europe have no such taboo when it comes to raping good old mother earth. As the television margarine commercial, so aptly expressed it, you can get yourself in a heap of trouble, hunching around with old maw earth. Melodramatic,

erratic, chaotic, and intense changes of ideology, such as those that usually accompany conversion to modern -day Jesus cults, have been, in my experience, signs of some deep -rooted absence in the existence not only of Jesus freaks, but many other intensely religious people I have known. They live neither here nor there. They are not fully in the present, on the earth, because their attention and energy is usually directed toward heaven and the afterlife, rather than toward here in North America. And now, in July 22nd, 1973, at a few minutes before 12 'clock noon, central Stokely time, that is to

say, sun time. The sun is not yet straight overhead, that is, it's not yet due south, due to daylight savings time. I am opposed to daylight savings time, because it prevents people from knowing which way south is, if they have a watch and the sun is shining. It also prevents them from knowing exactly which way is east and west, as long as the sun's position is visible, and the sun is not straight overhead, but reasonably close to the eastern or western horizon. Some study of the 23 and one -half degree inclination of the celestial equator with respect to the ecliptic, or zodiac, as astrologers call it, is also helpful for this purpose. Thus it is that the modern -day Jesus worshipers have subverted the simple and sublime teachings of Jesus Christ, making them a justification for sin and

immoral as well as unecological behavior. Of course, moral and immoral are terms I use only in relation to the way I live my own life. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said in The Great Gatsby, quote, I am inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me, unquote. Nevertheless, I do analyze and observe the behavior of other people, and attempt and I attempt to apply what I learn to how I live my own life. So far, I have had a lot of fun. Indeed, the movie that flickers across the back of my retina resembles strongly a movie by Fellini, or a painting by the Spanish painter Romero de Torres,

a painter who lived and painted in the Spanish city of Córdoba in Andalucía in southern Spain. Torres died, I believe, sometime during the 1950s, and his paintings are collected in the Romero de Torres Museum in Córdoba, Spain. I saw his paintings in the Romero de Torres Museum in Córdoba just before I thought of my now famous Everybody is Crazy Theory, otherwise known as my These Apes Are Spaced Theory, and these apes are indeed spaced. quote,

I am inclined judgments, I am inclined me, a habit that has a that opened

a habit that has me,

opened up many yesterday the French over the protest of the world in

violation of the ruling of the world court exploded a hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere over Mururua et al. at all near Tahiti in the South Pacific in the earthquake zone that surrounds Japan, the Philippines, New Guinea and New Zealand. I had heard on the radio earlier the reports from the ships, the New Zealand ships that were steaming into the test area. The French government took board of these ships and the radio operator had to make his last broadcast because the ship was taken over. After that nothing was heard from those ships. Yesterday that hydrogen bomb test was conducted. The French did explode that hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere. The radiation should not be drifting toward North America for another three to four

days, possibly as long as a week, depending on atmospheric conditions. As some of you may know I've long been interested in the problem posed by the existence of hydrogen bombs. In 1972 I ran for president on the dismantle the bomb ticket, held a ban the bomb rally and declared that if these weapons were not taken apart soon we might all die in a fiery nuclear holocaust that would destroy western civilization. I've been thinking about this lately. I went through intense thoughts about it a couple of days ago. I was somewhat depressed for as much as a day thinking about it. I've come to the conclusion, I have come to the conclusion that the nuclear bombs probably will go off. At this

point there is probably, it is probably unlikely that a nuclear exchange, a nuclear war, an atomic holocaust can be averted. There are too many spaced out apes running around on the planet playing with bombs. Of course I will continue to denounce these bombs. I will continue to do everything in my power to get these bombs dismantled and get these missiles defused and deactivated so they can't go off and so they can't kill you, kill me, and destroy western civilization. But these bombs had already been made by the time I was born. They were already in their silos and by the time I emerged into any kind of consciousness at all into what was going on

people were already playing with them. Many of the decisions relevant to this matter were made long before I was born and so there are finite limits on what I can do. I cannot change the fact that human beings are free. We are free to live harmonious, meaningful, rich, enjoyable, peaceful lives and we are also free to create for ourselves a hell on earth, paved over, stripped mind, the birds killed by insecticides, the people killed by nuclear radiation and fall out. 250 square miles of the state of Nevada has already been covered with radioactive material from a nuclear accident and this area is now uninhabitable. A human being cannot go into this

250 square mile region of the state of Nevada without being exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. This is something else that has been hidden from the national news media. How does this all relate to you? Why am I telling you that during the next two, I would say during the next two years you and I will both probably be dead and during the next five years it is even more likely that we will be dead killed in a nuclear exchange. There are three and a half billion spaced out apes running around back and forth on the planet earth and at any given instant, 24 hours a day, at least 2 million of these apes are talking at once. And this is the condition in which we find ourselves. The Newsweek article lists the

nuclear club and has the countries that have ICBMs, U .S. and U .S .S .R., that have land -based intermediate -range ballistic missiles, the U .S .S .R., China and France, that have sea -based weapons, that is nuclear submarines, and those nations are the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain, the nations that are testing in the atmosphere, and those are China and France, and the nations that are testing underground, that is the United States and the Soviet Union. France is setting off hydrogen bombs in the Pacific, not to learn how to make hydrogen bombs because they already know how to make hydrogen bombs. The purpose of setting off these hydrogen bombs in the Pacific is to feed France's ego trip, to feed their national pride. And this is the kind of example France is setting for the rest of Europe. What if the other countries in Europe start doing the same thing? What if

Germany starts setting off nuclear bombs in the Pacific? What if England and Italy and India and Israel and Japan has been pretty cool about it? But what if all the other countries in Europe start also setting off hydrogen bombs to show how powerful they are? How long do you think this situation can go on? Well, it's clear to anybody that pays any attention to it at all that this situation cannot go on very much longer. It would be extremely improbable. I said last week that improbability, sheer improbability itself, was the only thing keeping us alive from instant to instant. And the only thing about being kept alive by probability, improbability, is that it probably

won't keep you alive very long. It is possible that we can go on bumbling around making the wrong decisions, choosing to strip mine and insecticide and deforest and pave our entire planet. And one planet in a hundred can probably get away with this, you know, and still play with nuclear bombs and just by sheer chance not blow themselves up. And since one planet in a hundred can probably do this, one planet out of a hundred it will happen on, and we may be on that one planet. If somebody had asked me five years ago in 1968, Peter, do you think we're likely to last five more years playing with nuclear bombs? Do you think we are likely to live until 1973 unless, you know, if the bombs are not dismantled? I would have said no. I consider this very unlikely. Chances are against it.

And yet here we are sitting here alive. Well, if somebody, you know, it's unlikely to throw a pair of dice and roll seven five times in a row. If somebody asked me, do you think I can throw these dice and roll five sevens in a row? I would say no, I don't think that's likely. But then the person might proceed to go right ahead and do it. It does happen one time out of a thousand or one time out of five hundred, whatever the odds are. So I think we will probably be destroyed by our, by nuclear bombs, by the warrior cults who refuse to listen to the people who want peace and whose decisions were made long ago. These people decided to hold World Wars two and one. And right now they're preparing for World War two, for World War three, as feverishly as they can. Preparing to hold it as elaborately, to have as sophisticated and elaborate weapons as possible, in order to be very well prepared for war.

We're spending eighty billion dollars a year to be well prepared to hold the apocalypse. How much are we spending to be prepared for peace? Before World War two, before World War one, everybody in Europe wanted to be well prepared to hold World War one, to hold World War two. How much attention was being paid to being well prepared for peace in the event that peace occurred? How much energy, how much money, how much attention did these civilizations direct toward being prepared for peace? This country is spending eighty billion dollars a year to be well prepared to hold World War three. How much money are we spending not to be well prepared to hold World War three?

How much money are we spending to be prepared, well prepared to not hold World War three? How much money, how much attention are we paying to being prepared for peace? Is anybody preparing for peace? Is anybody directing their lives toward survival? Yes, some people are. In the midst of chaos, in the midst of people making mistakes, fear crazed, wrong decisions, there are people running around making the right decisions, and responding as appropriately as they can to the conditions in which they find themselves. Some people are planning to live more than the next twenty years. The petroleum is scheduled at present rates of consumption to run out in twenty years. Plenty of people say that does not concern them. Why does it not concern them? Is it possible that these people do not plan for there to be a civilization here on the earth twenty years from now? Maybe this is why they're not concerned.

Maybe they feel that by the time their ego trip has resulted in all the oil being used up, their other ego trip will have resulted in the destruction of western civilization anyway. This is why they're not concerned. But some people are planning to live for the next million years for this civilization to live and prosper and evolve toward higher awareness and consciousness for the next one million, possibly the next three million, the next five million years. Everything on this planet that's needed, everything on mother earth to provide for a man to live for five million years is here. There's enough petroleum, there's enough food, there's enough sunlight, there's enough air. There's enough of everything, enough clay to make bricks and cities, enough limestone to build

buildings. There's enough of everything on this planet to last us three to five million years if we use it wisely. It's as if we were in a house. Say you're in a house and the house is all equipped with everything you need to live for a year. It has enough fuel oil, enough natural gas stored in tanks to cook your food and heat your house for a year. But western man is sound asleep in that house and the hot water tap is running, the gas is on, the gas is leaking out of the furnace and the furnace is on, and western man is asleep. And in one day that year supply of cooking fuel and water and heating fuel is going to be gone. In one day and then there's going to be 364 days of shivering, of not being able to cook

food, of not having hot water. That's the situation we're in now. Western man is asleep at the wheel and as many of us in this automobile culture know, it is not habit forming to go to sleep at the wheel for any long period of time. I'm not telling anybody anything that anybody isn't already aware of. I'm reading these things about the nuclear weapons from Newsweek magazine. And the people that are doing this are partially aware of what they're doing. So I do predict in all probability this civilization will destroy itself quite easily sometime this year. Probably sometime before the end of 1975, two and a half years from now. And I would say very, very probably, almost certainly, within five years by the end of 1978. Again, due to the astronomical

phenomenon of improbability, the planet could last longer than that, even if western man does not wake up, even if we continue to not pay any attention to what we're doing. And the way this is relevant to how you are living your life is that if you are going to be reassigned, if the cosmic administration is going to reassign you and me to another planet, we had better be living harmoniously. We had better not be consuming our planet because when we get to that other planet, we want some petroleum to be there. Those of us who have not consumed all the resources on this planet will be reassigned to a planet where there will be resources remaining. Those on this planet who have been most active in turning this planet into a desert of concrete and strip -mind wasteland, they will be reincarnated, I believe, on planets that have been totally

destroyed in this fashion. It hasn't happened to the Earth yet, and it doesn't have to happen. Some irreversible ecological damage has already occurred. It will take a quarter of a million years before the radiation that was spread over Nevada completely disappears. The radiative pollution, which you cannot see or smell, has a half -life of a quarter of a million years. These are the consequences of acts that we are doing on this planet right now. We can have our electric toothbrushes and our electric can openers, and are playing with these machines and toys. It's okay to play with toys just so the toys don't consume the planet. People ask me how I can be happy. I am planning to live my whole 70 or 80 years. We must assume

that we will survive, even though it is unlikely in sheer mathematical probability terms. It is unlikely that this civilization will survive very much longer. With a combination of good luck and deciding that we are going to wake up and start paying attention and cut out the nonsense, the nuclear testing and the strip mining and the automobile consumption of all our grandchildren's oil, if we wake up and decide to quit doing that, and if we have good luck, we will survive here on the Earth. If only a few of us wake up and everybody else stays asleep, then those that remain asleep will be shipped off to some inconceivably subtle and yet terrible tortures that the universe reserves for the people that rebel against it with the most defiance. The universe attempts to encourage us to evolve appropriately and to discourage us from

ruining our own lives. And the universe does have subtle punishments for people that don't cooperate with it. We can all see this every day. Each person and each living animal is in its own karmic predicament. This is why we can be happy because we can live right even in this consumerist culture. We can ride a bicycle as I do, recently got a new bicycle, and we can consume as little as we can and remain alive in this consumerist culture. I consume coal both using this transmitter, which I understand uses 200 watts as much as 200 watt light bulbs. I do use light bulbs at night, consuming coal and tungsten.

I try to use fluorescent bulbs as much as I can, and I consume natural gas quickly. Natural gas at present rates of consumption is scheduled to run out within 11 years by 1984. So I just thought you might like to know what's going on in the field of world events and the Columbia events that are inextricably interrelated with them and what the chances of survival are. They don't happen to be very good. People ask me, why don't I broadcast more good news? Well, I would ask those people, why don't you make more good news? I'm just a reporter. I just broadcast what happens, what decisions other people make. It's up to those people to make decisions and to...