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TitleHippie-here is your answer from the sick sick sick sick rotten paranoids:
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Date 16/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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CatalogDP-007b
CollectionSOLA-o
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GroupDigger Movement (Core Collection)
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DP-007b
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Notes
See reverse side re: the dating.
Abstract
The text on this side turns the phrase “here is your answer” toward the everyday commandments of the straight world: don’t hitchhike, don’t talk to strangers, get a job, stay in school, don’t make love, don’t take drugs, don’t stand around waiting for nothing, don’t shelter the young. Against that catalog of fear, caution, work, property, surveillance, and passive spectatorship, the Digger voice answers with the counter-principle that creation and being are free. The piece is especially striking in the way it opposes “watching” to living: watching movies, television, ball-games, go-go dancers, rock bands, even spontaneous demonstrations, becomes a symptom of a sick culture that has forgotten how to act, share, risk, and come together joyously. Its final inventory of free clothes, free food, free shelter, free cars, free farms, free medical advice, free lawyers, and free printing presses moves the sheet from denunciation into declaration: FREENOW was not a slogan only, but an already emerging infrastructure of liberation.
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Hippie - here is your answer from the sick sick sick sick rotten paranoids:

DON'T pick up hitchikers, in fact, grimacing and giving the finger to hitchikers
Get a JOB, and DON' T quit often because you'll get a bad reputation
DON' T talk to strangers
DON'T walk around at night, especially in unsafe neighborhoods
KILL for peace
Stay in SCHOOL so you can graduate and get a good JOB and make $$MONEY$$ (don't worry about being creative)
DON'T make love
DON'T do L.S.D.
DON'T do grass
DON'T do alcohol
DON'T walk around nude
DON'T walk around with no shoes
DON'T stand on street corners waiting for nothing
DON'T gamble
DON'T house and feed people under eighteen years of age

They'll tell you how they watch movies
They'll tell you how they watch T.V.
They'll tell you how they watch go-go dancers
They'll tell you how they watch ball-games
They'll tell you how they watch magazines for clothes and hairstyles
They'll tell you how they watch rock bands
They'll tell you how they watch spontaneous demonstrations on Haight Street

And they'll tell you that they work from nine to five and that their jobs aren't bad and that their pay is O.K. and that their boss is all right (he gives them a five dollar bonus every year at Christmas) and that their two-week sightseeing vacation was a groove.

Are you ready for all that sickness? Read those again, because they conflict with all actions of people coming together and being joyous. And the Hippies say unto you — take your sickness and tightness and impersonalness and work and rules and rationalizations and unwillingness to change and experience and stick them in your own head and brains and owned mouth and owned ears and owned ass, in your unspeakable cocks and cunts. We want to be and to create now and CREATION AND BEING ARE FREE. We want to be and to create and to express now, and that means FREENOW

There is now there is now NOW there is … there is (on a small physical scale)

FREE clothes
FREE food
FREE shelter
FREE cars
FREE farms
FREE medical advice
FREE lawyers
FREE printing presses

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