We Want a Human Economy

Hey Harlem dudes, even the young people

realize that the time comes to grow up.

Well, from the discussion today, from the lunch


discussion, it became very clear that what you had said two days

ago, about the nixing of the youth movement, and the opportunity

for the folks who used to consider themselves part of the youth

movement, the opportunity we now have to become a force to be

reckoned with, in this country, but also across the planet. What

was discussed today, was the perfect complement to that, because

it has never been more clear that -- yes, we're in discussion

with important people, blah, blah, blah. The fact of the matter

is, they're in discussion with important people, because they're

in discussion with us, to the degree that we take ourselves that

seriously. And I think that one's importance is really only

defined to the degree to which they want to understand the

reality that we're in, 'cause it's not very good, and the few

opportunities we have take a helluva lot of courage and

imagination, and playfulness, but seriousness at the same time.

So this abolition of the youth movement really shouldn't

come as a great surprise to anybody: If you're serious about

what you're doing every day, you're serious about what you're

organizing around, it kind of strikes you as, "Oh, yeah! Right,

of course!" We would be in this position now, to be

mass-educating governments and people around the planet on what

it means to have a human economy, and people shouldn't think of

themselves as anything less than that.