The kemikal generation and counter culture is obviously positive to the max, when the law is ignoring you and serving the upper classes there is no alternative but to live your life "one way, and that's your own". The UK legal system is f*cked and we all discovered that at the age of 14 when we first noticed that 'smoking a J', surprisingly, didn't kill us or f*ck us up and hey everybody's doing it, its the brand new dance. It doesn't take long for Ezeer the geezer in the corner to muscle in. Far from being rejected by society & unable to get a job as implied by the authorities, counter culture and drug culture is society. Eventually you find out that Bill Clinton's been blowing puff & even some of the pigs are blowing like big bad wolf. Stop press:- George bush's son has taken cocaine - shock horror. Labour party MP gets skanked on rock deal etc. etc. etc. This is it. this is the reality trip in late 90's Britain, the law says one thing the culture says another. You can't blame the likes of spiral tribe for their f*ck Da Law attitude. There is no point sitting around watching TV, the drug of the (rest of the) nation, waiting for the 'legalise it' crew to wear down the government & change the law. Life is for living you may get run over by a bus tomorrow, go on, gimme an E please Bob. Since your here & now you might as well listen to a succession of repetitive beats. Illegal music? there's nothing wrong with having a party. The law is a farce, and so has been reduced to simple practicality of modern living, what ever happened to the notions of Justice, prevention of anti-social behaviour, and Morality? Don't turn of now kid respect your mother, listen up and listen good. Most people in counter/drug culture don't listen past this point. "Morality is the shit that is spouted by people that don't know how to have a good time" (can't handle there drugs ). Because most people living in Britain's drug culture smoke reefers daily, they live as outlaws. The law has no meaning and so as soon as you start smoking you have to make your own right and wrong the law is no guide. These tricky decisions are mostly made when your f*cked on drugs & teen spirit. Bad time to be making your own religion. If your not careful drug culture morality slips to the level of smack culture & those that have danced with the Devil have faith no more. Do what you can get away with and live for the next hit. We all know what scum 90% of smack hedz are cos it 'took their life, took their wife, and in the end, it was there only friend'. They have no mates that are more significant than their next hit. OK cool so the devil is alive and well in Moss side & Hulme that's hardly news, let em burn baby burn. My concern is the disillusioned ecstasy generation. They love their mates & are essentially sound as a pound (or at least half a bar) my mates won't f*ck me over, ever, full stop. But is that the full stop of it? Is it right to be the good Samaritan to your mates & then as far as the law is concerned do what you can get away with and live life for the next hit/rush/giggle/laugh/party. If you can nick a mars bars and not get caught shop fitting why not? Mentality on automatic, switch to default behaviour patters, live life now., I'll think about life next time I'm on acid thanks., Think about it sure I did the cameras are f*cked in this shop there is no way big brother could see me. Nota Bene. at this point I am not suggesting that you should or shouldn't nick mars bars, what I'm saying is 'has the average drug f*ck asked him/herself "Why not?"' Morality issues? time to think, nine times out of ten a shop lifter will not nick off his or her mates, why cos its wrong ---=> morality issue. See you do have morals (or are you the sort of cunt who will nick off your mates if you can.) If you do have morals & you do live out side the law I reckon its time you made your own religion. Its well worth doing and once you have its much easier to make decisions when drug crazed hedonism is teetering on the edge of paranoia because you've got a tricky decision to make and your mental faculties are having a lazy day at the sea side, leaving just you and your serotonin levels to call the shots. If you don't have your own ideas of what's right and wrong before long being a drug f*ck can turn you into a cunt, and isn't that what they said would happen. (see the psychotic marijuana user. American government press 1950) Prove em wrong, and besides making you own religion doesn't mean you can't lose it later on in the same place you lost your marbles. Here are some guidelines for writing your own religion: 1. Try not to be too specific it has to apply to your whole life. 2. Er... that's it... I don't think that I have the right to tell you what is morally right and wrong. I just reckon you'll probably be happier with your life if you can look back and not say "Christ I was a prick". Think about it for yourself. I think the world would be a better place if at least we were all accountable to ourselves cos in today's political climate (the harsh winter of my discontent (disco in a tent)) there's f*ck all chance of being accountable to the British justice system if your a weed smoker. Since I'm not going to make any judgements on what a good religion is here's mine like it or loath it it should help you write your own. Individualism - the ten commandments by which I attempt to live my life. NB Not Conservative 'individualism' which assumes that selfish behaviour in the market will lead to increased efficiency & therefor selfishness is justified. A Conservative individual will work for his benefit only (a remarkably similar standpoint to that of the long term opiate user) My definition of individualism is respect for the individual. Not respect for yourself you (Tory cunt) respect for other individuals as opposed to large structured groups of people that generally are totally abusing internal power structures. e.g. shareholding companies, countries, political parties, the masons, trade unions, the student union blah la blah.. 1. Learn the law, then f*ck the law. a. Its a good idea to work out why everybody is doing what there doing so you can justify doing what your doing in there terms 2. Thou shalt not steal, from any individual. a. Nicking of big fat companies is ok, as is jumping trains, but stealing from the local corner shop is bang out of order. b. Rich people are still individuals so you can't nick of them either. sorry. 3. Thou shalt not use unprovoked physical violence. a. 'unprovoked' refers only to the defence of my person, not my property or pride. 4. Thou shalt not f*ck with thy loved ones emotions. a. obviously in all these life rules, one has to not deliberately brake the rules. If I were to accidentally spanner someone's head, whilst they were on acid by talking about vegetables, I can hardly consider myself to have done wrong. Its about intent. 5. Thou shalt not lie, to any individual. a. Bullshitting to traffic wardens is ok. Whilst the may be people too, while they are dressed with stupid hats on they are agents of the enemy (council) and can, and should, be swiftly moved on with a series of fraudulent excuses. b. Or unless it makes a good story better. 6. Be grateful for gifts, from individuals, nothing is owed to you. a. You need not however be grateful for the logo embossed free calendar that you got from the box of Cornflakes you opened this morning. Be careful of this, large companies will mutate any 'gratitude' into 'customer loyalty' and hence in-elastic demand patterns and thus higher prices. b. Say thank you when someone gives you a fag 7. Respect that other people live by other religions. You may get smacked by a Glaswegian at some point kid, deal with it, its their way of life. 8. The next generation is as important as this one. a. you are but a molecule on the last strand of the belly button fluff in the navel of the universe. 9. Discover the world and the way it works for your self, remain fully sceptical about everything, even if you are having to make certain assumptions to get by, don't treat any of these assumption as fact. 10. Don't piss off the windward slab of the boat. That it kids its that easy. I can heartily recomend my religion its worked well for me, and I belive I haven't pissed that many people off, despite being a sothern middle class ponce living in Moss side. If you want your own religion to recieve international acclaim, have a large devout group of followers and get in to the best seller list, here are some handy hints from some of the big boys Christianity, Muslim etc. 1. Embelish your new religion with a couple of really hard to live by sub-clauses so people can have some kind of test of faith. eg thou shalt not f*ck with jonnies. 2. Include some public holidays, preferably around the time everyone else has a public holiday, so all your followers can get high on life when everyone else is f*cked on drink or/and drugs. Perhaps even one a week. 3. Write a really dramatic book with some really scary stories about heretics coming to stiky ends in painful ways. 4. Invent a bad guy to put the shits up people who may be temporarily losing faith. 5. Get together some serious funding in the guise of charity and blow it all on rediculus clothing and impressive idols/buildings/statues. 6. Encourage some rock star / sporting celebrities to publically express their support. 7. Provide simple, easy answers to life's more tricky questions. eg Q. Why were put on this planet, mr. preacher. A. To serve the Good God Edison, and to bring light where once there was darkness my child. 8. Ensure that your religion takes up lots of its followers time so they don't have time to read books on taoism or popular culture etc. 9. Have a war once in a while so all your followers can be assured that it must be right because 'uncle Barney gave his life for it'. 10. Ensure that there are very few people who actually call the shots so when a new situaion arises (homosexuality in the family, famine, world peace etc,) all your followers can quickly have the same opinions given to them in there regular weekly bulletin. P.S. I'm not bitter that no one goes for my 'pissing off the windward slab commandment' and my congragation is only me. I don't want a popular religion, I'm keeping it real man. I'm living to the rythum of an underground religion. Yeah. tekno paul