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TitleInmates | break out of the mental institutions
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Date 16/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadsheet
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CatalogDP-011a
CollectionSOLA-o(MG)
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GroupDigger Movement (Core Collection)
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DP-011a
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Abstract
This broadsheet is one of the clearest Digger statements of total refusal, casting the major systems of American life—political, economic, educational, military, religious, and even linguistic—as “mental institutions” designed to produce obedient, programmed corpses. In a voice that is at once comic, incantatory, and deadly serious, it calls on people to “break out” of these closed hierarchies of coercion, property, conditioning, guilt, and war, and to recover the possibility of acting, feeling, and creating freely. The repeated contrast is between institutional life, which freezes people into roles, and “free forms,” which open the way to self-invention, shared liberation, and what the Diggers elsewhere called FREENOW. The sheet stands as a compact manifesto of psychic and social jailbreak, insisting that the real revolution begins with refusing the systems that colonize the mind.
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break out of the mental institutions
break out of the mental institutions

break out of the break out of the mental institutions of political systems
(police, power, coercion, manipulation, control)
break out of the mental institutions of economic systems
(money, compulsory consumption, efficiency, property, monopoly)
break out of the mental institutions of education systems
(language conditioning, censoring, diploma-con, self-righteousness)
break out of the mental institutions of military systems
(violence, force, terrorism, national guard)
break out of the mental institutions of religious systems
(sacredness, secretness, sin, and guilt)
break out of the mental institutions of language systems
(mass syntax , mass morphology, mass phonology, mass semantics)

free you are open people not to be closed into the mental institution systems
revolve your head and nervous system, do acid, spinspiril. do yourself. create free forms.
do your free thing.
freeall
freall
f real 1

MILITARY institutional systems are horizontal and vertical heirarchies frozen for coordinating programmed corpses. (soldiers) giving you the alternatives of either killing and burning people to death or going to jail for not obeying the established authorities — the general idols

EDUCATIONAL institutional systems are horizontal and vertical heirarchies frozen for coordinating programmed corpses. (students) giving you the alternatives of either successful mental programming and physical conditioning or jail until you're 16 and guilt forever after for not obeying established authorities — the teacher idols

ECONOMIC institutional systems are horizontal and vertical heirarchies frozen for coordinating programmed corpses. (workers) giving you the alternatives of either becoming a workable tax paying efficiency freak or going to jail for vagrancy (no money) for not obeying established executive idols

POLITICAL institutional systems are horizontal and vertical heirarchies frozen for coordinating programmed corpses. (citizens) giving you the alternatives of either voting for war, monopolies, police, and the national guard or politics is death for not obeying established president idols

RELIGIOUS institutional systems are horizontal and vertical heirarchies frozen for coordinating programmed corpses. (members of the multitude) giving you the alternatives of either believing in their gods or being condemned to doo-doo land for not obeying established idol orders

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