Universal Neglect; Health Care and Paul Krassner

[Jan Klimkowski]

Merry Pranksterism is as dead as the 60s.

I hate it when people say the sixties are dead.I like to think of it in terms like hibernation.And,it just awaits some spark to set it off again.What we did in the sixties was lay down a base of countercultural thought,and alternative ways to living better.That base still exists today.

Phil talks about the free health clinic in New Mexico that still exists today.Here,we still have "White Bird" free clinic.

Phil talks about homegrown denistry.Although retired now,we had our own hippie dentist (set up in old 1952 Diamond T school bus.It is featured in the hard to find book "Rolling Homes".It wasn't free,but Doc(learned denistry in the Army,Korea) would charge about half what other dentists charged.And,less if you couldn't pay.

And so much more.....

Hang in there Paul.........

Keith - a post of hope! Thanks.

Yes, the CounterCulture still exists, despite the efforts to delegitimise, marginalise and silence its voice.

"Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane."

― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow