Raving: Let's Go
I love reading. I'll read almost anything, it's true, but I have this passion for books and the written word. I love learning new ideas, having them wild all over the page or neatly organized in a clip list. I love that, in reading, someone can make whole arguments to you and no one is there to counter them or shut them up. You just read and listen and then any thinking differently is left up to you. I love reading.
And I'm absolutely sick of it.
Okay, that's a blatant lie. I'm not sick of reading, I'm sick of not doing. I'm tired of reading all these ideas and then having no where in the world to put them. I want to do something!
I want to drop out of school and work and rent and bills and TV and shopping and comfortable suburban living for a month or year or ever. I want to get together broken down buses and trucks and cars and wagons and paint them up and drive them off. I want to be part of a movement - an actual, physical movement from one coast of this nation to the next. I want to cash out my bank accounts and buy only what we need. I want to make scenes in a hundred different cities and towns and dead highways across this country. I want to crash through middle America chanting John Lennon songs! Waving flags! Smoking dollar bills! I want to make people laugh, to make them cringe, to make them protest against us, just to make them care! I want to pick up hitchhiker's and stragglers and college students and investment bankers and kindergarten teachers and housewives and anyone who wants to come can come! A free community for peace! A world on wheels!
And we will be loud even in the face of silence. And we will be poor and naive and stupid and annoying and show offs and just trying to create trouble and we will spread a revolution from the streets. We'll have fun! We'll be ourselves! Without jobs or college or responsibility we'll see who we are! When we have to stand against the no no no of the system we'll question ourselves! We'll be unsure and nervous and scared and it'll open our eyes to how brainwashed we've been and we'll start the change inside our trucks and vans and we'll give it away for free. You do not have to pay us! We are not selling a gimmick! We'll give it and we'll leave it and you'll never see it up on the stock exchange, imagine that!
We'll go to DC. We'll tell them to fuck off! We'll dance and sing and shout and sleep on their lawns until they drag us away and then ask what gives them the right to own the earth. We'll slam ourselves up against the pentagon! We'll throw flowers at the white house! We'll fuck on the steps of congress because, let's face it, all they do is fuck around and our way is more fun. We'll throw money at business men to buy food for the homeless. We'll eat lunch with the homeless because we'll have no money. We'll chant and we'll whisper and eventually someone will hear us.
We will be a traveling show of freaks! The media will love us! What strange kids, what naive kids, to think these useless little ideas will change the world. Why, they're not even making money from this love they're giving away! Hahahahahaha!
We'll make something better than money. They'll broadcast us out as a joke and we'll turn into a vision. Kids everywhere will want to be in our car , in our van, but they're too afraid because SOCIETY SAYS YOU DON'T MAKE LOVE MAKE A SCENE MAKE A STAND MAKE A CHANGE - do not make anything. Creation is wrong, so we destroy everything like countries like sex like bodies like differences like bad words like you. We'll go find these kids and we'll give them what we have learned, guys! For no price, no charge of admission, not a single thing asked we will let these kids have all our knowledge, to do with what they will.
HATE it.
LOVE it.
USE it.
TAKE it.
We will turn young adults into PEOPLE. Teenagers, you are sold music and fashion and movies that keep changing changing changing because it things move fast enough you can't hold onto them long enough to get passionate about them and that is the one thing we hate.
Society doesn't want you to be passionate about anything. Passion breeds action breeds change. Why do people with power want anything to change? Power wants stillness. We want movement. From state to state and home to home and mind to mind until we're so exhausted that we can't keep still. For a month or a year we will live on peace and hope and exhilaration. We will sleep in dirty buses and strange pit stops and wake up to a brand new morning that they can never take away or sell or auction off at the IRS.
And if they try we'll tell them to fuck themselves, and give them our love for free.
And I'm absolutely sick of it.
Okay, that's a blatant lie. I'm not sick of reading, I'm sick of not doing. I'm tired of reading all these ideas and then having no where in the world to put them. I want to do something!
I want to drop out of school and work and rent and bills and TV and shopping and comfortable suburban living for a month or year or ever. I want to get together broken down buses and trucks and cars and wagons and paint them up and drive them off. I want to be part of a movement - an actual, physical movement from one coast of this nation to the next. I want to cash out my bank accounts and buy only what we need. I want to make scenes in a hundred different cities and towns and dead highways across this country. I want to crash through middle America chanting John Lennon songs! Waving flags! Smoking dollar bills! I want to make people laugh, to make them cringe, to make them protest against us, just to make them care! I want to pick up hitchhiker's and stragglers and college students and investment bankers and kindergarten teachers and housewives and anyone who wants to come can come! A free community for peace! A world on wheels!
And we will be loud even in the face of silence. And we will be poor and naive and stupid and annoying and show offs and just trying to create trouble and we will spread a revolution from the streets. We'll have fun! We'll be ourselves! Without jobs or college or responsibility we'll see who we are! When we have to stand against the no no no of the system we'll question ourselves! We'll be unsure and nervous and scared and it'll open our eyes to how brainwashed we've been and we'll start the change inside our trucks and vans and we'll give it away for free. You do not have to pay us! We are not selling a gimmick! We'll give it and we'll leave it and you'll never see it up on the stock exchange, imagine that!
We'll go to DC. We'll tell them to fuck off! We'll dance and sing and shout and sleep on their lawns until they drag us away and then ask what gives them the right to own the earth. We'll slam ourselves up against the pentagon! We'll throw flowers at the white house! We'll fuck on the steps of congress because, let's face it, all they do is fuck around and our way is more fun. We'll throw money at business men to buy food for the homeless. We'll eat lunch with the homeless because we'll have no money. We'll chant and we'll whisper and eventually someone will hear us.
We will be a traveling show of freaks! The media will love us! What strange kids, what naive kids, to think these useless little ideas will change the world. Why, they're not even making money from this love they're giving away! Hahahahahaha!
We'll make something better than money. They'll broadcast us out as a joke and we'll turn into a vision. Kids everywhere will want to be in our car , in our van, but they're too afraid because SOCIETY SAYS YOU DON'T MAKE LOVE MAKE A SCENE MAKE A STAND MAKE A CHANGE - do not make anything. Creation is wrong, so we destroy everything like countries like sex like bodies like differences like bad words like you. We'll go find these kids and we'll give them what we have learned, guys! For no price, no charge of admission, not a single thing asked we will let these kids have all our knowledge, to do with what they will.
HATE it.
LOVE it.
USE it.
TAKE it.
We will turn young adults into PEOPLE. Teenagers, you are sold music and fashion and movies that keep changing changing changing because it things move fast enough you can't hold onto them long enough to get passionate about them and that is the one thing we hate.
Society doesn't want you to be passionate about anything. Passion breeds action breeds change. Why do people with power want anything to change? Power wants stillness. We want movement. From state to state and home to home and mind to mind until we're so exhausted that we can't keep still. For a month or a year we will live on peace and hope and exhilaration. We will sleep in dirty buses and strange pit stops and wake up to a brand new morning that they can never take away or sell or auction off at the IRS.
And if they try we'll tell them to fuck themselves, and give them our love for free.