'Just think - once this was nothing but raw wilderness!' Mauldin, Chicago Sun-Times, 1965.* And all the children are insane . . .
Iron Eyes Cody, 1971: GET INVOLVED NOW. POLLUTION HURTS ALL OF US.
*From No Laughing Matter: The Cartoonist Focuses on Air Pollution. National Conference on Air Pollution, December 12-14, 1966, Washington, D. C. Public Health Service Publication No. 1561. U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Division of Air Pollution, Washington, D. C., 1966. Cf. The Doors, "The End," The Doors (1967).
Today's Rune: The Mystery Rune.
5 comments:
You should've seen the size of the dead perch in Lake Erie when Uniroyal was killing it from the Detroit River!--The Big Wheel
It hurts so badly...I'm officially losing sleep over it all now...
I remember Iron Eyes. Not much iron in the eyes of those who live in the Gulf area right now.
Interesting that you use quotes from the Doors.
In 1980, when I was a freshman in college at North Central College, William Irwin Thompson of the Lindesfarnce Association spoke at a convocation. He alluded to predictions of youth violence in the world and quoted from the Doors' "The End:" "And all the children are insane." From gang violence to child soldiers, he has turned out to be prophetic.
I truly think that we're at a fork in the road. Either we get it together, or watch it all unravel in our lifetimes.
Johnny Rojo,
I wonder if it was the same William Irwin Thompson--is he still alive? who posed, in Harpers Magazine the question--"Did they kill the Captain (the Sheriff)--and did the crew take over?
Seems the "kids" bonked the captain a in some surreal Startreck episode.
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