Inspiration
The Declaration of Evolution
by Dr. Timothy Leary
When in the course of organic evolution it becomes
obvious that a mutational process is inevitably
dissolving the physical and neurological bonds which
connect the members of one generation to the past and
inevitably directing them to assume among the species
of Earth the separate and equal station to which the
Laws of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent
concern for the harmony of species requires that the
causes of the mutation should be declared.
We hold these truths to be self evident:
That all species are created different but equal;
That they are endowed, each one, with certain
inalienable rights;
That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow,
and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;
That to protect these God-given rights, social
structures naturally emerge, basing their authority on
the principles of love of God and respect for all forms
of life;
That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of life, liberty, and harmony, it is the
organic duty of the young members of that species to
mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social
structure, laying its foundations on such principles
and organizing its power in such form as seems likely
to produce the safety, happiness, and harmony of all
sentient beings.
Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures long established should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the same destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving social structures. Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems of government.
The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet earth is a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature, all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young, the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the judgement of generations to come.
These old, white rulers have maintained a continuous
war against other species of life, enslaving and
destroying at whim fowl, fish, animals and spreading a
lethal carpet of concrete and metal over the soft body
of earth.
They have maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the young. Genocide is their habit.
They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth's abundance and God's endowment.
They have glorified material values and degraded the
spiritual.
They have claimed private, personal ownership of God's land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.
In their greed they have erected artificial immigration
and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of
people.
In their lust for control they have set up systems of compulsory education to coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and innocence of the playful young.
In their lust for power they have controlled all means
of communication to prevent the free flow of ideas and
to block loving exchanges among the gentle.
In their fear they have instituted great armies of
secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.
In their anger they have coerced the peaceful young
against their will to join their armies and to wage
murderous wars against the young and gentle of other
countries.
In their greed they have made the manufacture and
selling of weapons the basis of their economies. For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.
In their impotence they have glorified murder,
violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.
In their aging greed they have set up an economic
system which favors age over youth. They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence of thought.
In their greed, they have instituted political systems
which perpetuate rule by the aging and force youth to
choose between plastic conformity or despairing
alienation.
They have invaded privacy by illegal search,
unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.
They have enlisted an army of informers.
In their greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly
tars and sugars and employ cruel and unusual punishment
of the possession of life-giving alkaloids and acids.
They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed and war. In their advertising and in their manipulation of information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity and pious self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them to greater error and noisier self-approval.
They are bores.
They hate beauty.
They hate sex.
They hate life.
We have warned them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh.
We have prophesied in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets.
Worshipping only force and money, they listen only to
force and money. But we shall no longer talk in these
grim tongues.
We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity,
detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold
them henceforth as we hold the rest of God's creatures
- in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces
to life.
We, therefore, God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving, fun-loving men and women, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority of all sentient beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly publish and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping ourselves into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to live and move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and minds in the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all Acts and Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right do without infringing on the same rights of other species and groups to do their own thing.
And for the support of this Declaration of Evolution with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, and serenely confident of the approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak, do we now mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE
THYME:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
Another jewel from the internet, gratefully submitted by W. Sizwe Herring and the team at EarthMatters Tennessee.
A Mouse
A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the
farmer and his wife opening a package. "What food might this contain?"He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house!; there is a mousetrap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said "Mr..Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be
bothered by it." The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house The pig sympathized but said, "I am so very sorry Mr.. Mouse, But there is
nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured that you are in my prayers."The mouse turned to the cow. She said, "Wow, Mr.. Mouse. I'm sorry for you. But it's no skin off my nose." So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught In the darkness she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the
trap had caught.The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever.Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient. But his wife's sickness continued,
so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer butchered the pig.The farmer's wife did not get well. She died; And so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. So next time you hear that someone
is facing a problem and think that it doesn't concern you, remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. In the book of Genesis, Cain said about Abel his brother to
our God: "Am I my brother's keeper?" We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and be willing to make that extra effort to encourage one another.
SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT (AND THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED
UP THE OPPORTUNITY) AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE!
