Few Books Today Are Forgivable.

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' State Is Too Often The Abdication Of Ecstasy, The Betrayal Of Our True Potentialities.

Long Before A Thermonuclear War Can Come About, We Have Had To Lay Waste Our Own Sanity. We Begin With The Children. It Is Imperative To Catch Them In Time. Without The Most Thorough And Rapid Brainwashing Their Dirty Minds Would See Through Our Dirty Tricks. Children Are Not Yet Fools, But We Shall Turn Them Into Imbeciles Like Ourselves, With High I.q.s If Possible.

The Brotherhood Of Man Is Evoked By Particular Men According To Their Circumstances. But It Seldom Extends To All Men. In The Name Of Our Freedom And Our Brotherhood We Are Prepared To Blow Up The Other Half Of Mankind And To Be Blown Up In Our Turn.

To Live In The Past Or In The Future May Be Less Satisfying Than To Live In The Present, But It Can Never Be As Disillusioning.

What Is To Be Done? We Who Are Still Half Alive, Living In The Often Fibrillating Heartland Of A Senescent Capitalism -- Can We Do More Than Reflect The Decay Around And Within Us? Can We Do More Than Sing Our Sad And Bitter Songs Of Disillusion And Defeat?