I had a friend back in the 60s who one day on LSD took a toothpick and he sat for fourteen solid hours with the toothpick and a large red brick and he demolished it. He reduced it to nothing with this toothpick, and his fingernail long after the toothpick was gone, and this is what we have to do to the ideological concrete in which we are set. We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a, have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

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