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DASA 2019-2
WARREN:
Yea.
FREMONT-SMITH: "If it's that bad, we'd better damm well have
it quickly before everybody else can do it." We didn't end up with
that mood but | think it is not an uncommon attitude and there are even
some people saying this in Washington taday.
BRUES:
Another way of dealing with the frustration is with drugs.
1 wonder how much of the current drug usage is.....
FREMONT-SMITH:
BRUES:
You mean we give drugs to Washington?
Perhaps we should. {Laughter}
FREMONT-SMITH: Excuse me, sorry.
tect people?
You mean drugs to pro-
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BRUES: I mean, how much of this business is another reaction to
this same frustration?
ROOT:
BRUES:
You mean LSD?
For instance.
ROOT: Yes. Drugs are one way to dea! with frustration. 1] think
so very strongly. You listen to the flower children talk—the bomb is
coming and we've got to get cut. [ know one group that's really setting
up a colony inthe Amazon.
They’ve got it all figured oul that the
Southern Hemisphere will get less fallout. Behind this kind of "there
is no tomorrow’ philosophy is very much the feeling that they have been
betrayed, there's nothing they can trust. The only true experience is
Now. In that sense we have lost a very serious war in that we are
losing an increasing percentage of our youth.
FREMONT-SMITH: That's what I meant by the pap between the
adult population and those who don't trust anybody over 30. Most of
us.are over 3U and so we can't be trusted.
BRUES:
The ones over 30 have the other irrational way of dealing
with it, which is to have it over with.
FREMONT-SMITH:
Yeas.