Remember the erudite gentlemanly character who left the West Coast for the‘Wilds’of New York?? Look!! There! On the floor!! Is it a gnu??..Is it a bison? Is it The Walrus???....NO... It’s the ( gasp, shudder, yetch ) ANIMAL!!!

Near as I can recall,it all started one frigid New York City evening at the flat of Murray R., that benign father-figure of bloody revolution. A young Californian suffering from the 90° heat and damned near 100% humidity of an enclosed room with 30 - odd bodies crammed in, had the temerity to remove his freshly laundered shirt revealing to any and all ( faint hearts had best be seated for this ) his (ugh, pfui) T-Shirt, and as if that weren’t enough, he then assayed to remove ( courage dear reader ) his left sock!! He said he was trying to restore the circulation to his toes which he had badly hurt in his morning ablutions. (A likely excuse,that.)

I understand that some of the Rothbard crowd are reffering to yours truely as The Animal . I hope this is at least a semi-affectionate appelation. I hope further,that ‘come the revolution’, the above actions (bet you guys didn’t think I had it in me) do not constitute a breach of revolutionary mores and are punishable, (after due deliberation by a revolutionary tribunal (yes Murray, there may even be a Santa Claus as well) consisting of separate but equal numbers of Anarcho-capitalists and SDS Maoists, by half-hanging, drawing and quartering or other socially proper form of dealing with such moral perversion.

Seriously, I do understand that some of the more refined revolutionaries were quite taken aback with my behavior. As an ex-girlfriend of mine used to say, Tough Noogies,baby. (That could be one of the reasons we are no longer making it.) If the price I have to pay for the company of other libertarians consists of having to neglect my own health and comfort for the sake of thier societal hangups (manners to the more effete social philosophers), self-sacrifice just isn’t my bag. I think at this point a brief lesson in the nature and origin of manners in our civilized (yettch) society might be in order.

As Freud, Neill, Adler, myself and others of the world’s great psychologists have aptly and amply demonstrated, Bodily shame (guilt really),and other irrational behavior patterns,celibacy, drinking with your pinky up etc. ad nauseum, are the result of faulty (non reality) inputs into the value matrix by ones parents and society in general (Festinger anyone?).Little ___________ (fill in your name) stop playing with your ___________ (fill in the body part euphemism that applies to your particular sub-culture), it will: A. Stunt your growth.; B. Fall off.; C. Send you straight to hell.; D. [51] Make you feeble-minded. Take your choice there are thousands of variations on this rediculous theme (it’s a deadly one as well). It is the same epistemological process that is involved in all non-rational behavior patterns. (Wars and bureaucracies anyone?)

I would like to see the expression on the faces of some of the more hung-up of the eastern crowd if, upon being invited to a get-together at Skye’s, they arrived early and saw the usual note left by thier hosts on the door to instruct the victims (myself on many occasions) of earlyarrivalists to wit: come in....help yourself to the fridge...we are balling in the bedroom....make yourself at home...be with you anon. That’s my kind of people—they let you know where it and they are at.

Meanwhile, back at the barricades.....

NOTICE

“Due to a sympathy strike by our SDS contingent, in connection with the issue of more pay for oppressed bureaucrats, our food staff has been pressed (by vote of The Tribunal) into passing ammunition. 4:00 PM tea and crumpets-at-the-barricades will resume just as soon as this state of emergency ceases.

In the field of psychology it has been observed with 100% accuracy that every violent sexual deviate, invariably comes from a sexually repressed home. It has been noted by anthropologists that the more primitive a culture — the more ritualized behavior patterns become.

Hey people,you’ve got only one life and one body why limit them to the standards of the irrational nerds who constitute society. Try SELF regulation for a change,you might really dig it.

P.S. I kan spel but mi tiperiter kant.
T.A.

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