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The key to the drug panic is TV. TV intensifies the
already numerous forms of inner-tripping. Color TV
is psychedelic input. The kids are simply putting jam
on jam when they take to drugs. They seem to
imagine that it helps them to relate to an electric
speed world, whereas they are quite unable to relate
to the fractured and fragmented specialties of a
pre-electric school and goal and job system.
In the ’20s booze created a huge police state as we
tried to prop up the old form of social arrangements.
Drugs likewise provide a field-day for the Mafia as we
try to maintain the patterns of the pre-electric age
while the kids are miming electric speeds and the