The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.
The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.
The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.