Psychedelic Salon 212
Lorenzo Hagerty, The Wizard's Council (chapter three from his book The Genesis Generation)

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Lorenzo.]

âForget getting a permanent job. Forget careers and the quest for financial stability. They are all false gods, sent to you by the Capitalist elite on Wall Street, whose primary goal is to trap you into a life of servitude.â

âYou still havenât figured it out yet, have you?â began Shadow. âIt should behoove us all to take the words of the Empireâs leaders at face value. They have declared what they call a War on Drugs. Of course, thatâs a lie on its face, because they arenât putting drugs into prison cages, theyâre putting people in them. This is no war on drugs, William, this is a war on consciousness, as Richard Glen Boire says. Itâs a war on people who arenât satisfied with the status quo. It is a war on the very people that we are going to need to get us humans out of this mess weâve created for ourselves. And if this is really a war, as they want to call it, then you and I, young William, you and I are their sworn enemies.â

Lorenzo, Sasha Shulgin, and Bruce Damer at the 2007 Burning Man FestivalâWe are at what many believe to be the most pivotal moment in human history that we know of. The arrow of unsustainable consumption, powered by the bow of credit, has reached the top of its flight. There is nowhere for that arrow to go now but down, and where it is going to land is anyoneâs guess.â

âA thousand years from now, humans will most likely still be walking the Earth, as we have done for over a million years already. Some of those future humans will have genetic links to us. . . . And those people of the future will be alive because they had at least one ancestor, maybe you, who was a part of what their historians will call the Genesis Generation.

âWe are raising our children to become serfs!â

âOur families are detaching from the monetary system and applying their energy in different directions, like raising some of their own food, and entertaining ourselves without spending exorbitant amounts of money.â

âUnlike that insidious John Galt, I am advocating that We the People go on strike and remove our minds from their System of servitude. For we are fully aware that it isnât the handful of CEOs who are the producers. No, in fact, they are the looters now. It is time to keep our best ideas to ourselves, here in our own community.â

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