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they live a lot along here and they're 00:00:00
they live a lot along here and they're mostly they are not working-class people 00:00:02
they are people who dropped out of 00:00:08
college because they saw it was stupid 00:00:11
and they're that sort of people we would 00:00:13
call them perhaps beatniks but you see 00:00:18
the city doesn't like it because they 00:00:22
aren't owning the right sort of cars and 00:00:24
therefore the local car salesman isn't 00:00:26
doing business through them they don't 00:00:29
have lawns and so nobody can sell them 00:00:31
lawn mowers they hardly use dishwashers 00:00:37
appliances of that kind they don't need 00:00:39
them and also they wear blue jeans and 00:00:43
the things like that and so the local 00:00:46
dress shops feel a bit put out having 00:00:48
these people around and they are very 00:00:51
little bit very simply 00:00:53
well they you mustn't do that you've got 00:00:59
to live in a complicated way you gotta 00:01:02
have the kind of car you know that 00:01:04
identifies you as a person of substance 00:01:06
and status and all that so there's a 00:01:10
great problem here in our society now 00:01:12
why is that this problem there's always 00:01:15
a very inconsiderable minority of these 00:01:18
non joiners or people who check out of 00:01:21
the game but you will find that insecure 00:01:25
societies are the most intolerant of 00:01:28
those who are non joiners they are so 00:01:36
unsure of the validity of their game 00:01:41
rules that they say everyone must play 00:01:41
now that's a double bind you can't say to a person you must play because what 00:01:52
you're saying is you are required to do 00:01:58
something which will be acceptable only 00:02:00
if you do it voluntarily 00:02:00
you see so everyone must play is the rule in the United States and it's the 00:02:08
rule in almost all Republican 00:02:13
governments 00:02:13
I mean Republican in the sense of 00:02:17
democratic because they're very uneasy 00:02:23
because everybody is responsible 00:02:26
you mean you may try not to be and avoid 00:02:29
it and say oh let the senators take care 00:02:31
of it or the president but theoretically 00:02:33
everyone's responsible now that's 00:02:35
terrifying 00:02:36
it's all right when you know what's 00:02:38
right there is an aristocracy there is 00:02:41
the clergy and they know what should be 00:02:43
done and they are used to really see but 00:02:46
now you'd see it's in your hands you say 00:02:48
what would embody what are we going to 00:02:49
do well I think this way and you think 00:02:52
that way and he thinks the other way and 00:02:53
so we're all unsettled and therefore we 00:02:58
become more and more conformist 00:03:00
individualism rugged individualism 00:03:02
always leads to conformism because 00:03:05
people get scared and so they herd 00:03:07
together and it compounded with 00:03:09
industrial society mass production etc 00:03:12
they all wear the same clothes and 00:03:14
they're sensible clothes that don't show 00:03:17
the dirt too much and we get dollar and 00:03:21
drabber and with the exception of the 00:03:24
Californian Revolution so what the 00:03:35
reason for this is in a way that 00:03:38
democracy as we have tried it started 00:03:43
out on the wrong foot you see in the 00:03:49
scriptures or the Christian scriptures 00:03:50
it says everybody is equal in the sight 00:03:52
of God now that's a mystical utterance 00:03:58
that means that from the standpoint of 00:04:02
God all people are divine and are 00:04:08
playing their true function 00:04:08
and that is something that is true on a certain plane of consciousness but come 00:04:16
down a step and try to apply the 00:04:23
mystical insight in the practical 00:04:25
affairs of everyday life and what you 00:04:27
get you get a parody of mysticism you 00:04:30
get the idea not that everybody is equal 00:04:32
in the sight of God but that all people 00:04:34
are equally inferior and that's why all 00:04:40
bureaucracies are ruled why the police 00:04:42
are rude and why you are made to wait in 00:04:45
lines and our obstreperous income tax 00:04:49
individuals and all that sort of person 00:04:51
because everybody's a crook everybody's 00:04:54
equally inferior see that becomes the 00:04:56
parody of democracy and that kind of 00:04:59
society watch out for it it turns in a 00:05:02
quick click into fascism because of its 00:05:06
terror of the outsider now a free and 00:05:10
easy society loves Outsiders in fact 00:05:15
it's a little bad for the outsiders 00:05:16
integrity because he becomes holy man 00:05:20
see and people make salams and give him 00:05:26
food and all that they really take care 00:05:29
of the outsider because they know that 00:05:31
man is doing for us what we haven't got 00:05:34
the guts to do that outsider who lives 00:05:37
up there in the mountain is that the 00:05:39
highest peak of human evolution his 00:05:41
consciousness is one with the divine and 00:05:43
great just there is someone like that 00:05:46
around it makes you feel a little better 00:05:48
he is realized he knows what it's all 00:05:50
about and so we need a number of those 00:05:52
people even though they don't join our 00:05:55
game they tell us you see what you're 00:05:58
doing is only a game it's ok I'm not 00:06:00
going to condemn you but it is only a 00:06:02
game and we up on that mountaintop are 00:06:05
watching you we love you we have 00:06:07
compassion for you and but the excuse 00:06:10
please we are going to join so that 00:06:15
gives a community great strength because 00:06:18
it tells the government in no uncertain 00:06:20
terms that there is something more than 00:06:23
government 00:06:23