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Frank Zappa Was One Of The Gods Of The Czech Underground, I Thought Of Him As A Friend. Whenever I Feel Like Escaping From The World Of The Presidency, I Think Of Him.

Someone Who Does Not Draw Strength From Himself And Who Is Incapable Of Finding The Meaning Of His Life Within Himself Will...seek The Map To His Own Orientation Somewhere Outside Himself-in Some Ideology, Organization, Or Society, And Then, However Active He May Appear To Be, He Is Merely Waiting, Depending. He Waits To See What Others Will Do, Or What Roles They Will Assign To Him, And He Depends On Them-and If They Don't Do Anything Or If They Botch Things, He Succumbs To Disillusion, Despair, And Ultimately, Resignation.

It Would Appear That The Traditional Parliamentary Democracies Can Offer No Fundamental Opposition To That Automatism Of Technological Civilization And The Industrial-consumer Society, For They Too Are Being Dragged Helplessly Along By It. People Are Manipulated In Ways That Are Infinitely More Subtle And Refined Than The Brutal Methods Used In Post-totalitarian Societies.

Education Is The Ability To Perceive The Hidden Connections Between Phenomena.

What's Certain Is That A Totalitarian Enclave Like Cuba's Can't Continue To Exist, So Change Will Definitely Come There, Eventually.