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You
didn
1
f ask to be born.
You
didn
1
f puf in a request lor
roce,
color
and creed. Or
parents,
or
your geographical
location,
or
the time ol your birth . You
1
re just here. Whether
you like it
or
not you
are
an active participant in the BIG
11
BE IN
11
!
Now -
what to
do
about it?
by
David Jon Hill
Y
ou
DON'T
like war, hy–
pocrisy, commercialism,
racism, the bomb, the
Establishment, the way things
are? You don't like the mess
your parents handed you for
a world to live in? You don't
like pollution, overpopulation,
a
money-mad and morally mis–
managed society your seniors
have labeled "Civilization"?
Gooo!
And what's more, you're all
fired up and want
to
DO
something
about
it,
not just talk and add to
the hypocrisy?
EXCELLENT!
Would you like todo
your
thing
and have it really mean something
~
GREAT!
BUT HOW?
Should you dress differently and
wear long hair? Should you join
demonstrations and shout slogans
in marches against every conceiv–
able representation of authority
that smacks of "the Establish–
ment" ? Should you retreat with
the young bunch tbat believes like
you do in a bítter, crawl-under-the
bed -and-eat-worms-because-nobody–
loves-me session?
Should you lump together all
people over thirty and labe l them
with the trite terms of square, hyp–
ocrite, weird- just because sorne