"Nowhere To Run To," or, "When's The Next Election?"
by Sub-commandante X

Well, maybe I wasn't really nervous. Still, I just couldn't settle down to sleep that night. Just past midnight on May 5, 2000. I was aware that the temperature was dropping. Too cool for May in south Florida, I figured.

Could this be the beginning of the end? The book in front of me is titled, 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster.

Matter of factly, published in 1992, it predicts a rare planetary alignment causing a magnetic polar shift. Hence, earthquakes, floods, fires and the next Ice Age.

It's happened a number of times in our past, and will, undoubtedly, happen again. But not this time. A lot of money was made, I'm sure. Anybody wanna pick a date? I just got an idea.

No, I wasn't exactly worried. But, I did sleep under a quilt. And, I know where my warm clothes are, if needed.

So, OK, ready or not, bring it on. Might as well, "Show the get on the road," like they say. 'Cause there's nowhere to run to anyway, baby.

She was complaining about bugs in her garden. "Nuke 'em," he said sarcastically. "I did," she said, pleased as punch.

Australians are getting ready to clone a 'Tasmanian Tiger' (really, it's a marsupial), extinct for 64 years. Excuse me, didn't we see this movie before?

While the Aussie scientists were whooping it up over the long strands of DNA that were recovered, more subdued scientists likened it to building a car from scratch, with just part of a technical manual to start with.

Much more needs to be developed, of course. Hope it's not too crowded on Olympus, because we're definitely on our way.

Cherry and orange flavored Prozac (fluoxetine) may be in your kids lunch pail by double aught five (2005). The Eli Lilly Company projects half a million kids on Prozac by then. It's the world's most widely prescribed 'antidepressant.' (Now, you're sure we're winning the war on drugs, uh?)

That'll keep a lot of little buggers quiet in the classroom, betcha.

"When I write 'em they go as they lay..." "...After all, we all love honesty."
--Will Rogers

Miami Police Chief Bill O'Brien said, "You can't fire me, I quit." And even if the law hadn't required his silence concerning the impending raid to get 6 year old Elian, he still wouldn't have told Mayor Joe Carollo.

That courageous cop definitely saved some folks their lives with that gutsy stand. (Of course, he had already qualified for a very handsome pension.) So he could afford to do the right thing.

But, still, the class of the Chief just exposes Mayor Joe Carollo for the "divisive, destructive" obstacle he has become. When's the next election?

Another Quote from "Brownsville Girl",

"Can't believe we've lived so long, and still we're so far apart."
Jakob's Dad said that
(AKA Bob Dylan)

Terence McKenna made his transition to the Infinite on April 3, 2000. The Ethnobotanist, radical historian, and world class psychedelic researcher (website: http://www.levity.com/eschaton/tm.html), McKenna was author of many books including the 1992 bestseller, Food of the Gods.

The following is from an interview in Omni magazine, May 1993:

McKenna:

...The mushrooms said clearly, 'When a species prepares to depart for the stars, the planet will be shaken to its core.'

All evolution has pushed for this moment, and there's no going back. What lies ahead is a dimension of such freedom and transcendence, that once in place, the idea of returning to the womb will be preposterous.

We will live in the imagination. We will quickly become unrecognizable to our former selves because we're not defined by our limitations: the laws of gravity; the need to eat, excrete, and make money.

We have the will to expand infinitely into pleasure, caring, attention and connectedness. If nothing more - and it's a lot more - it's permission to hope.

Sub-X is a survivor of the radical '60s. These days he's attempting to get beyond the 'Them' and 'Us' duality of Conflict Consciousness. Trying to eliminate conflict from one's reality is a lot like dealing with alcohol. It's an on-going process. Currently, Sub-X seeks solutions and asks, "Why not more beauty, love, and joy?" We know we can do so much better. OK, so why not?