What a long strange trip it's been.

American society has gone completely into denial.

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.