Paradise now.
"Against this background of international youth rebellion, which terrified the rest of the world into cultifying such safe established mature family figures as astronauts and yachtsmen, society was subverted in another way. by a new which is alive, exciting, fun, ephemeral, disposable, unified, unpredictable, uncontrollable, lateral, organic and popular.
The old culture is infinitely divisible, elitist, remote and detached – Nazis wept over Wagner then turned on the gas. Counter-culture is warm, total and all-involving. Creatures dream through a light show, then turn-on each other. In Chicago, the yippies did not oppose the democrats with an isolated political programme, but with alternative way of LIFE.
This merging of politics and way of life is fundamental to the UNDERGROUND (TREATS) and also entails total commitment to this new culture. 'Revolution must break with the past and derive all it poetry from the future'- the International Situationist. 'Our program is cultural revolution through total assault on culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hand on …our culture our art, the music, newspapers books posters, our clothing our homes, the way we walk and talk and cycle and the way we our hair grows, the way we smoke dope, the treats we eat and fuck and sleep -its all one message and the message is revolution of everyday life, freedom."
-John Sinclair, Ministry of Information, White Panthers