The Declaration of
Evolution
When in the course of organic evolution
it becomes obvious that a mutational process is inevitably dissolving
the physical and neurological bonds which connect the members of one
generation to the past and inevitably directing them to assume among
the species of Earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws
of Nature and Nature's God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony
of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared.
We hold these truths to be self evident:
- That all species are created different but
equal;
- That they are endowed, each one, with certain
inalienable rights;
- That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom
to Grow, and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;
- That to protect these God-given rights, social
structures naturally emerge, basing their authority on the principles
of love of God and respect for all forms of life;
- That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of life, liberty, and harmony, it is the organic duty
of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, to initiate
a new social structure, laying its foundations on such principles
and organizing its power in such form as seems likely to produce the
safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient beings.
Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures
long established should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient
causes. The ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly
all experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which
they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
all pursuing invariably the same destructive goals, threaten the very
fabric of organic life and the serene harmony of the planet, it is the
right, it is the organic duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and
to evolve new loving social structures.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving
peoples of this earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains
us to form new systems of government.
The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious
men now ruling the planet earth is a history of repeated violation of
the harmonious laws of nature, all having the direct object of establishing
a tyranny of the materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving,
the young, the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the
judgement of generations to come.
- These old, white rulers have maintained a
continuous war against other species of life, enslaving and destroying
at whim fowl, fish, animals and spreading a lethal carpet of concrete
and metal over the soft body of earth.
- They have maintained as well a continual state
of war among themselves and against the colored races, the freedom-loving,
the gentle, the young. Genocide is their habit.
- They have instituted artificial scarcities,
denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth's abundance
and God's endowment.
- They have glorified material values and degraded
the spiritual.
- They have claimed private, personal ownership
of God'd land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on
the earth.
- In their greed they have erected artificial
immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of
people.
- In their lust for control they have set up
systems of compulsory education to coerce the minds of the children
and to destroy the wisdom and innocence of the playful young.
- In their lust for power they have controlled
all means of communication to prevent the free flow of ideas and to
block loving exchanges among the gentle.
- In their fear they have instituted great armies
of secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.
- In their anger they have coerced the peaceful
young against their will to join their armies and to wage murderous
wars against the young and gentle of other countries.
- In their greed they have made the manufacture
and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.
- For profit they have polluted the air, the
rivers, the seas.
- In their impotence they have glorified murder,
violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.
- In their aging greed they have set up an economic
system which favors age over youth.
- They have in every way attempted to impose
a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence
of thought.
- In their greed, they have instituted political
systems which perpetuate rule by the aging and force youth to choose
between plastic conformity or despairing alienation.
- They have invaded privacy by illegal search,
unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.
- They have enlisted an army of informers.
- In their greed they sponsor the consumption
of deadly tars and sugars and employ cruel and unusual punishment
of the possession of life-giving alkaloids and acids.
- They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly
trumpet the virtue of greed and war. In their advertising and in their
manipulation of information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity
and pious self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them
to greater error and noisier self-approval.
- They are bores.
- They hate beauty.
- They hate sex.
- They hate life.
We have warned them from time to time to their inequities
and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered
sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied
in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to
the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery
of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only force and
money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall no longer talk
in these grim tongues.
We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity,
detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth
as we hold the rest of God's creatures - in harmony, life brothers,
in their excess, menaces to life.
We, therefore, God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving,
fun-loving men and women, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe
for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority
of all sentient beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly
publish and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are
absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all
governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping ourselves
into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to live and
move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and minds in
the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all Acts and
Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right do without
infringing on the same rights of other species and groups to do their
own thing.
And for the support of this Declaration of Evolution
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, and serenely
confident of the approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak,
do we now mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and
our Sacred Honor.
Author: Dr.
Timothy Leary, Ph.D. ~ Courtesy:
Hyperdimension ~
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