Marxism is basically a maneuver to put Other People down --

"....long airplane flights, and I started thinking, uh, they always, you know --

They always show the same movie at the beginning of, uh, these flights, and uh --

It always ends up with, "Smoking is forbidden anywhere on the plane and if you try to creep into the men's room we got smoke detectors to catch you and to try to deactivate the smoke detector is a federal crime punishable by 30 years imprisonment to find $20 million and having your balls cut off or something to that effect --"

-- and uh, I -- I started thinking there are two types of people who suffer on long-distance flights : Heroin addicts and Nicotine addicts; 

But The Heroin Addicts don't really have to suffer much because they can they they can go into The John, and do up their works, and have a fix, and there's no detector that'll detect them; so The Heroin Addicts can just fly across country all the time without going through withdrawal, enjoying themselves basking in the glow of their addiction, while The Nicotine Addicts are all slowly falling apart because they got these smoke-detectors --

And it kind of makes me wonder, who does Our Government really hate more...? The Heroin Addicts or The Nicotine Addicts...? It's, uh --

I never thought about that question before uh it's just uh then I thought maybe uh maybe that's the cure for the nicotine problem which is you know The Country is getting more and more into a turning into An Armed Camp, especially California --

.....by the way I speak uh so you know my B I speak as an ex-smoker which is not the same as a non-smoker -- it's not that I never smoked I was addicted, and I'm not here to preach to those who are still because I know how hard it is to kick; I'm just reflecting on the paradoxes of, theoretically we hate heroin addicts more than nicotine addicts, but on long airline flights, we make the nicotine addicts suffer more than the heroin addicts -- suppose we try to turn all the nicotine addicts into heroin addicts so that they could have relief on these long flights?

If we could get them all off nicotine on the heroin they would not suffer so much -- this would be the humanitarian thing to do, they just go in the men's room, do up their work and there, you know.... That's civilised compared to the cruelties we're inflicting on them now --

Like, uh, one of the things I like about Amsterdam, my favourite city in Europe, is everybody in Europe -- 'all the men', I should say not everybody -- all the men in Europe say the best window shopping in Europe --

Ah, some people have been to Amsterdam and know what I'm referring to -- Uh, a lot of coffee houses in Amsterdam where you can buy hasheesh, and uh, it's great -- there you are, just sitting around drinking coffee with your friends, and buying hashish, and uh every now and then The Cop on The Beat comes in and takes a toke from somebody he recognises, and my God! Civilisation is possible on planet Earth it's just that The Dutch are the only ones who figured out how to do it! 

And I was in one of those coffee shops and I saw a sign it said "No Hard Drugs Please" -- I thought "Gee,that's the essence of the Dutch sensibility, that word, 'please'! -- that's so nice, you know that compared to the hostility of the signs you see in this country as a general rule no hard drugs please and you know if you're sitting around in a Amsterdam coffee shop with friends uh smoking your hash it does bring down the tone of the establishment if you look over and there's some goddamn junkie there ready to shoot up you know it's just not classy so so I really admire the Dutch um but then I realised I've been in the junkie neighborhood of Amsterdam it's right next to the red light neighborhood which is what I was talking about before the best window shopping in Europe uh and everybody in the junky neighborhood is smoking like a what's the smoking like a fish no no drinking like a fish smoking like a chimney and so heroin and nicotine and they can be addicted to both so getting all the nicotine addicts not the heroin won't work so there's another beautiful Theory destroyed by a few inconvenient facts what has this got to do with Quantum psychology nothing I'm just getting warmed up as just what happened to be on my mind uh somebody was telling me a story about a friend of theirs desperately hunting around here for an ashtray and that brought all this back to mine uh I lived in Ireland for six years Ireland uh is famous all over Europe and so psychiatric and social worker circles for having the highest alcoholism rate of any European country and uh this is a uh a source of continuous investigation the Irish are the most uh surveyed and studied people around because everybody wants to know why their alcoholism rate is so high uh I can't seem to get off the subject of addiction uh if they can figure out why their rate is so high then that might give us clues about you know what to do about it so they're always studying the Irish and uh the people who don't drink in in Dublin uh pretend to Ireland is the biggest consumer of non-alcoholic beer in the world every Pub in in Dublin has non-alcoholic beers and uh the reason is that the pub is the center of Irish Social Life everybody goes to the pub at night that's where you meet your friends and so if you're if you suddenly you decide you're an alcoholic and you got to give up drinking your social life comes to an end or it would if it weren't for the Blessed invention of non-alcoholic beers now the alcoholics in Ireland can sit around the pub with their friends drinking non-alcoholic beer and looking perfectly normal by Irish standards uh you don't look normal in Ireland without a drink in your hand um uh the Irish also smoke like chimneys to get back to that simil I should come up with something more original but uh smoke I like smoking like a fish that's better cuz it's more confusing like uh that great graffiti I once saw in a men's room in Berkeley uh a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle makes you think doesn't it h in Ireland they have heard the news uh that smoking is dangerous and hazardous and all that but they they don't take it seriously so everybody smokes continually and when I was living in Ireland I'm I was coming back to this country to do lectures and it's like uh going from one planet to another here's a planet where no matter where you go the room is full of smoke then you come to this planet where there's no smoke visible anywhere if anybody lights up everybody starts throwing stones at them and tries to destroy them and uh then you then you notice these other differences in this country they're just starting to allow uh legal gambling in a few places a few states are beginning to liberalize all through my life it's been strictly it's been Unthinkable unamerican uh abominable the idea that the of a state run lottery or to let the tracks take uh bets off the way from the track or anything like that in Ireland every block right next to the pub there's a beding establishment and uh in this country uh until uh Thomas gets confirmed abortion is totally legal everywhere outside of Louisiana uh in Ireland it's totally illegal am I just rambling or if I started talking about Quantum psychology uh the Irish assume it's perfectly normal for everybody to drink and for some people to drink heavily It's Perfectly Normal to smoke it's abominable to have an abortion and divorce is illegal too and of course everybody knows who are the worst villains in the world it's the English and nobody in Ireland has ever doubted that for the last 800 years since the English first invaded them and they've been trying to get the English out ever since 

Uh, in Amsterdam uh -- you have an entirely different culture where you can uh uh where the porno theaters are not only wide open but they have gigantic letters as big as the theaters on Broadway or Market Street in San Francisco no nothing more Broadway you got to go to in New York to see and and the these great big signs say things like Li [ __ ] inside in in English uh because most of the tourists are English English is becoming an international language in Ireland prostitution is illegal and uh which means there are no prostitutes in Ireland uh I was in Ireland two days when I found out which part of the keys the prostitutes all gather on uh but the police officially don't know it homosexuality is illegal in Ireland uh the penalty is 20 years at hard labor still uh so there are no gay men in Ireland there's a restaurant across the street from Trinity College uh called the pink cartion uh the no I mean the green Carnation what's the matter with me the green Carnation and it's quite it's uh got a picture of Oscar wild in the window one of Trinity most famous graduates after Jonathan Swift and Samuel Becket and it big sign saying basket lunches uh but the police uh do not know of any gay bars in duin because they're illegal actually there is one gay man in Ireland his name is David narus he's a professor at Trinity College and a member of the Irish Senate and he is suing the Irish government claiming the law against the sodomy that's what the law calls it the law against sodomy is interfering with his civil liberties and uh he's a member of the Senate I think it's the only country in the world where I remember of the Senate is suing the country itself of violating its civil liberties of course he is not really the only gay man in Ireland it's just that they pretend he isn't until like uh everybody grows up within a culture uh that tries to teach them that the way our culture does things is the natural way ordained by God it's the only rable rational and sensible way and all other cultures all the damn foreigners are all crazy dirty degenerate and subhuman and uh they they also every place you go they also believe tourists are a curse invented by God to punish us for our sins uh the reason tourists appear a curse invent by God is uh that tourists don't act the way people are supposed to act if they come from Germany they don't act like us they act like Germans if they come from Ireland they act like Irish if they come from Japan they act like Japanese they don't know the right way to act which is the way we were taught to act and I have pondered all my life all my adult life why do people spend so much time on the singular occupation of making life hard for other people that is to say why do people put so much energy into trying to put other people down to find nasty things to say about them ways to criticize them ways to humiliate them ways to make them feel like they're one step down well according to most standard psychological theories people do this because they feel insecure people who feel insecure are trying to put other people down that makes them feel a little less insecure because they put somebody even further down than they feel okay that theory sort of makes sense but then you look around and you see how much time people spend trying to put one another down and the only conclusion you can come to is that everybody feels insecure 

"Human Society consists of a bunch of people who basically have this program, which the great New York psychologist Albert Ellis defined way back in The 50s as,
"I am a No-Good Shit." --

Ellis, I regard as my great predecessor in using Honest Language in books about Psychology, describing the way people really think and feel :

"I am a No-Good Shit." 

That is the basic program that
most people are operating on -- 

The second program is, "If I pretend hard enough, nobody will guess I'm a No-Good Shit", and the third program is,  "The way to Do it, is to convince everybody else that they're No-Good Shits."  --

The people who become most adept at this, find An Ideology which allows them to go around correcting Everybody Else, all the time, which explains why there are so fucking many Marxists in The World, even after Marxism has totally collapsed everywhere outside of China, Cuba and Pacifica Radio.... 

Marxism is basically a maneuver to put Other People down -- you just wait for them to Say something,  you got a long list and as soon as they violate one of The Taboos, you jump : "A-ha! Bourgeois-Thinking!",  uh…. "Male-chauvinism!", uh, --  whatever is the latest thing....

Now, why are people so devoted to putting one another down, why do they all have this basic program, "I am a No-Good Shit"?  

Pope BOB, R.A.W,

Northern California, 1991

Well, infants are born without any culture — every infant, as Bucky Fuller once said, is born naked, hungry and intensely curious —

And that's about it.  Naked, Hungry and intensely Curious — so the principle role of parents, is to take this naked hungry intensely curious being and persuade it, cajole  it, browbeat it, terrorise it, or one way or another, convince it that The Way We Do Things in this tribe is the natural way, ordained by God, and anything you feel like doing or want to do, or that seems ‘natural’ to you, if it doesn't fit into tribal customs, you [have]  got to stop it right away —

now most people have been so thoroughly conditioned by their culture that they really are horrified when they become parents if they become parents they really are horrified when they notice that their children do not have the tribal taboos firmly in place the children are born without the tabos they do all sorts of things that according to Social standards are immoral unethical disgusting perverse uh and not what not the way human beings are supposed to behave so the parents are really shocked oh my God we gave birth to a monster so so then they put on more pressure so the process of growing up from infancy to toddler to uh young child ready getting ready for school there a process of learning continually that you are in no good and you got to learn to put on this mask and act like everybody else and repeat all the social customs and then nobody will notice you're a no good and this creates so much tension that people spend most of their adult lives still trying to recover from this by finding other no good shits and and denouncing them so Human Society consists of a search and destroy mission against no good shits let's find the no good shits and get rid of them in California right now it's the cigarette smokers according to George Bush it's the pot smokers uh they talk a lot about crack babies but uh judge sweet when he uh had his Awakening or whatever it was and decided the War on Drugs was the craziest thing that ever happened to this country and started speak out against the judge swe pointed out that 70% of the budget for the War on Drugs goes to the pursuit of pot smokers so if they're so worried about crack babies why aren't they spending 70% and fighting cocaine why are they spending 70% fighting pot well it seems uh I don't know uh that has a lot to do with it probably those of you 

String Theory

 

“So I began to think more 

and more about The Individual, 

and I looked into 

what that actually meant. 

And what it was, 

was a structure that was 

pretty much created… 

The Ego-Structure was created 

out of what Julian Jaynes calls 

the “bicameral mind” 

becoming ONE mind.
And apparently – according to him – 

he says that back in the old days 

of the Greeks, 

and the earliest writing of the world, 

people didn’t have self-consciousness 

in the way that we have. 

They didn’t have egos. 

They didn’t understand themselves 

as “I” in the same way that we do. 

Because the corpus callosum – 

that connects the two hemispheres 

of the brain 

– WASN’T CONNECTED.

So if you heard A Voice, 

that voice was God. 

And Homer, and all those guys, 

you’ve got plenty of examples 

of people hearing 

the voice of God, 

and acting on that. 

Alexander constantly acted 

on the voice of God.

Julian Jaynes suggests that 

it wasn’t the voice of God – 

it was the voice of the left hemisphere of the brain communicating with the right hemisphere of the brain, 

interpreted AS a god.

So okay: now we’ve got the two things joined together. 

We’ve got this beautiful bridge in the middle that links the two. 
But we have the ego structure – which was created when those things linked.”

The Observer :

Bad enough I have to give Dick-and-Jane explanations to The President.

I've gotta give you one too. All right.

One end of this string represents Your Birth.

The other end, Your Death. 

You tie the ends together, 

and your life is a loop.

Ball The Loop...

and the days of your life 

touch each other 

out of sequence.

Therefore, leaping from one point 

of the string to another...

Would move you backward or forward 

within your own lifetime.

Which is Our Project :

Quantum Leap!

Future Boy :

Moe?

Sorry. I... I... I knocked.

I guess you didn't hear me.

Captain Galaxy :

I was in The Basement.

It's underneath The House.

Future Boy :

....Yeah.

Captain Galaxy :

Did Irene send you,

or is she lurking somewhere outside?

Future Boy :

No, no, no, I came alone.

She's worried about you, though.

She told me about the hearing tomorrow.

I guess this is the summons.

Captain Galaxy :

You know, a lot of people thought 

Einstein was crazy,

but they didn't try to lock him up.

Future Boy :

Listen, Moe, I KNOW You're Not Crazy,

but why don't you just meet with this Dr. Sandler guy so he knows it, too?

Captain Galaxy :

I don't need to meet a Doctor.

All I need is another 24 hours.

Future Boy :

Why do you keep saying that?

Don't you understand 

I'm here to help you?

Sooner or later you're gonna 

have to face this thing.

Time is NOT going to stand still.

Captain Galaxy :

I want to show you something.

When I was young, my, uh, 

passion was trains.

I couldn't get enough of them.

I even memorized their timetables.

Future Boy :

I did the same thing.

Captain Galaxy :

And whenever anything would go bad,

I would just imagine that 

I could just jump on A Train

and go anywhere I wanted to, 

to any time I wanted to.

But now I've got something 

better than A Train.

I've got a Time-o-nometer.

Future Boy :

What is it?

Captain Galaxy :

It's A Time Machine.

The Observer :

You sure it doesn't make cappuccino?

Captain Galaxy :

When I first started 

playing Captain Galaxy,

I became fascinated with 

the thought of actually 

being able to travel in time,

and I began to read 

everything I could about it.

Heisenberg's Theory of Indeterminacy,

Planck's Hypothesis of Discreet Units,

Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Future Boy :

Yeah, but when you say "Time Machine",

you mean a time machine like, 

like on Your Show, right?

Captain Galaxy :

The Show? The Show?

No, no, no.

That's Fantasy. This is REAL.

Look -- Time is like A Piece of String.

One End of The String is Birth,

The Other is Death.

You put them together,

and Your LIFE, is A LOOP.

The Observer :

Sam, that's YOUR Theory (!!!!)

Captain Galaxy :

If I can travel fast enough 

ALONG The Loop,

I will eventually end up back

at The Beginning of MY Life.

The Observer :

He's ALMOST got it..!!

Future Boy :

Uh, well, let me ask you,

What Would Happen, 

if, uh, you would 

BALL The String, 

right, and then 

Each Day of Your Life

would touch 

ANOTHER Day.

And then you could travel

from one place on The String

to another, thus enabling

you to move back and forth

within Your Own Lifetime, maybe.

Captain Galaxy :

That's it. That's it.

Then I could actually...

Future Boy :

Quantum Leap?

Captain Galaxy :

Quantum Leap.

I Like that.

I Like that a lot.

Captain Galaxy :

Well, I see that we're 

just about out of time.

But before we sign off today, 

I'd like to make an announcement.

Captain Galaxy 

is going away 

for a while.

He's going back to see 

if he can find something

he lost a long time ago.

But before we sign off, 

we have time for one last letter.

The Observer :

How come you're not out there?

Future Boy :

Oh, I figured that he deserved 

to answer the last letter by himself.

I guess I was here to 

get them together, huh?

The Observer :

Yeah, well, Ziggy had 

a sloppy floppy on this one.

But it all worked out, right, didn't it?

Future Boy :

What Happens to him?

The Observer :

Well, he goes to live with Irene 

and spends the rest of his life

entertaining the kids in the neighborhood 

with Tales of The Future.

Captain Galaxy :

Today's letter is from 

little Sam Beckett 

in Elk Ridge, Indiana.

Sam writes:

"Dear Captain Galaxy,

Could you please explain Your Theory of Time Travel to Us?"

Well, Sam, our lifetimes 

are like A Piece of String.

But if you roll the string up into A Ball,

ALL The Days of Your Life...