The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.