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“I don’t think people try hard enough to reach beyond themselves and really experience different things in life. You’ve got to be adventurous to make it in this world. I really mean that. You’ve got to be willing to try different things — from entertainment to food to where to live and what to do with your life. If I hadn’t been adventurous, I wouldn’t have done a lot of things — like live in Greenwich Village and sing in coffee houses and become a Monkee. But I wanted to do something different and I did. It’s the same way in thought processes. You’ve got to be able to bend your mind to new patterns and thoughts. People from other countries or other centuries have lots to offer us.” - Peter Tork, “Monkee Talk,” Tiger Beat, November 1968

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Photo (from October 27, 1979) courtesy of Rock in Houston.

“Singlemindedness is a drawback to human happiness.” - Peter Tork, The Bowling Green News, May 24, 1979

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“The world situation is something in a mess today. I’d like to see it all get straight. It’s working on it now though. I can see it happening. There’s always going to be another challenge the world will always go on. But I’d like to see us solve all our problems like poverty, war, pain and all that. Christianity as it is now practiced by most people who call themselves Christians in this country is pretty shabby. Sometimes the true Christian spirit seems dead. But I can see it coming out of the woodwork now. I think the flower children are an example of the true Christian spirit. That means love and participation.” - Peter Tork, Fave, March 1968 “‘Togetherness isn’t going to get it’ was the moral they tried to lay on us, because the less togetherness there is, the more room there is for exploitation. Kent State was an attempt. Let’s try this and see what happens. And what happened was the shooting and vast inflation and a swing to the right — the moral majority. The whole thing was inherent in the situation. A certain amount of loosening up, a certain amount of extra leisure, and people are going to try to improve their lot instead of just barely hanging on. If you had a little extra you’re going to try to make everything better. And if you see that your own happiness, or the lack of it, is tied in with the sadness of your neighbor, you’re going to start feeling communal. And that’s going to expand until the crunch comes. As long as people are educated to believe that isolated self-interest is the only way to go, when the crunch comes they’ll withdraw from each other. And only now, in the faintest glimmerings, do I see any sense that people are realizing that togetherness and flower power alone won’t get it. It’s got to be togetherness, flower power, plus a willingness to do something pretty stern from time to time. If you’re not willing to behave sternly, people who won’t stop short of stern behavior are going to keep on going. It’s taken a while for that message to sink in.” - Peter Tork, When The Music Mattered (1984)

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“Peter, My name is Scott and I’m 37 years old. I was wondering, as you look back on your experience in the 1960’s, how much of the political and social ideas of the youth movement and counter culture are still valid today and whether or not you feel the same about those ideas now as you did back then. Scott” “Dear Scott, I won’t go nearly so far as to say that everything that came up in the 60’s was valid, but as far as I'm concerned, the 60’s were to what will come as Greece was to democracy. Remember that in the 60’s the political officeholders had lost all touch with the needs of the nation…kind of like the Bush administration now. Back then the voice of the establishment, Life magazine, was discovered to have doctored photos falsely indicating that LSD caused chromosomal damage. That proved what we (then) kids already knew: that those at the top preached fair play and honesty, but had no more need to honor those concepts than what would give them the next dollar without too much trouble. We saw perfectly clearly that we were on our own, that no one in authority cared about us. Now, like any bunch of kids left to their own devices, some, many, went off the rails. Every false step by somebody walking around under the cloak of the liberal hippy 60’s was used as a pretext for dissing the entire generation. Those of us who were truly interested in liberty, fraternity and equality, however, knew we were onto something good and real. What had been called democracy was, and to some extent still is, a pretext for wrapping the will of the greedy and aggressive in a mantle of public acquiescence. Now, the business of wresting power away from those who make a specialty of wielding it will be a long and protracted struggle, with a lot of setbacks along the way. The outlines of the new style of governance are only dimly perceivable, and won't become clear for a long time to come. In the meantime, our job is to practice the principles of fairness and service to the extent possible. One thing is clear: there is a much higher joy in service than there is in acquisition of wealth. (Remember that it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it’s the love of money.) Hanging together in brother - and sisterhood is so happy-making you want to sing right out loud. Yeah, I feel the same about those ideas as I did then…in case you couldn’t tell. heheheh, Peter” - Ask Peter Tork, 2008

“It’s only fear, lies and bad leadership that keeps us all from loving each other and from seeing each other clearly and purely with the eye of the mind and the love of the heart.” - Peter Tork, 16 Magazine, December 1968

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Photo by Anthony Norkus.

“Dear Peter! I have a problem with my volume in choir. My director is always telling me to sing louder, but I’m afraid of not sounding good/messing up, so I tend to veer away from singing out. I just don’t want to mess up. I was wondering, do you know of any good ways to squash that perfectionist side of me? Bay, 13” “Dear Bay, Yeah. Sing out loud, mess up a bunch and laugh right out loud at yourself. Also, check out the others in choir. Any of them singing worse than you would? Yes? I thought so. OK, then. Singing well at a new volume level takes a bit of practice, tho’, and you might want to warn your director and everyone around you that it may take a bit of time before you are singing loudly and well. BTW, there will be no squashing sides of oneself on my watch, no suppressing the perfectionist. Rather celebrate another side of yourself, the lovable imperfect side, and let the perfectionist side be. That side has her virtues, too, and can be a good friend sometimes. Keep rockin’, Peter” - Ask Peter Tork, 2009

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Clip from Reasonably Spontaneous Conversation (with Dennis Tardan), 1979.

“More and more I try to meet anger with love. The world is love. Sooner or later everyone will love everyone else. That is the future. I think people are so hipped up on the point of view, us against them; it’s all a hangover from the days of the left wing or fascism. It’s not the way things are anymore; it’s just us.” - Peter, Tork Seventeen, August 1967 “It’s only fear, lies and bad leadership that keeps us all from loving each other and from seeing each other clearly and purely with the eye of the mind and the love of the heart.” - Peter Tork T, 16 Magazine, December 1968 “There’s this Latin expression and it’s in legal circles, and it means, ‘The thing speaks for itself.’ And the song [‘A Better World,‘ written by Nick Thorkelson], when I first heard the song, the song said to me what I’ve already known all along, but have never been able to express in so — such a pithy way, succinctly. It’s just — there’s more than enough. The subtext is that what’s keeping us from all having enough is fear — call it politics, which is fear. And there is no way to eliminate fear from the human experience. But there are ways to allay that fear to an appreciable extent. And if we know there’s enough, that makes things a little calmer. That makes things a little bit less grabby, because in the material world, it’s a zero sum game. There’s only so much food to go around. If I take too much, you don’t have enough. But if I take enough, you have enough too. And that’s — that will happen if we’re not terrified of each other and the vagaries of life, which of course are not… you can’t stop them, life goes on. It’s weird, people get hit by cars and get brought down by cancer or some other disease, or trip and fall and hit their heads. That kind of thing happens all the time, there’s no stopping it. But if we… the more fear we bring to the situation, the tougher it is on everybody — the fearful and the feared as well. [On society in 2016] Well, I think it’s always three steps forward, two steps back in every endeavor. Maybe it’s 99 steps forward and 98 steps back or something, you know.I don’t want to get too specific on the digits. But there’s always this back and forth and back and forth. But I am hopeful that in the long run, this is all going to settle down. I believe — I believe that fundamentalist hate rhetoric and behaviors of all kinds are a direct outgrowth of that same fear. […] The number of people who are capable of saying, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t have to do that,’ is very low. But it’s growing. That number of people who say, ‘I get it. I get that what we’re talking about is other people operating out of fear. I don’t have to react fearfully.’” - Peter Tork, Zilch Podcast no. 67, 2016

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Photo by Henry Diltz.

“What does [Peter] want to communicate? ‘Love. I don’t mean it to sound corny,’ he said pleadingly. ‘Dogmatism is leaving the scene. Youth is examining all the old-time premises that used to be taken totally for granted — sexual mores, artistic mores. And in Russia, the revolutionary clichés. I think there’s a genuinely democratic society just over the horizon. I hope so. I hope it achieves freedom and peace.’” - The New York Times, October 2, 1966 “The world situation is something in a mess today. I’d like to see it all get straight. It’s working on it now though. I can see it happening. There’s always going to be another challenge the world will always go on. But I’d like to see us solve all our problems like poverty, war, pain and all that. Christianity as it is now practiced by most people who call themselves Christians in this country is pretty shabby. Sometimes the true Christian spirit seems dead. But I can see it coming out of the woodwork now. I think the flower children are an example of the true Christian spirit. That means love and participation.” - Peter Tork, Fave, March 1968 “I won't go nearly so far as to say that everything that came up in the 60's was valid, but as far as I'm concerned, the 60's were to what will come as Greece was to democracy. Remember that in the 60's the political officeholders had lost all touch with the needs of the nation…kind of like the Bush administration now. Back then the voice of the establishment, Life magazine, was discovered to have doctored photos falsely indicating that LSD caused chromosomal damage. That proved what we (then) kids already knew: that those at the top preached fair play and honesty, but had no more need to honor those concepts than what would give them the next dollar without too much trouble. We saw perfectly clearly that we were on our own, that no one in authority cared about us. Now, like any bunch of kids left to their own devices, some, many, went off the rails. Every false step by somebody walking around under the cloak of the liberal hippy 60's was used as a pretext for dissing the entire generation. Those of us who were truly interested in liberty, fraternity and equality, however, knew we were onto something good and real. What had been called democracy was, and to some extent still is, a pretext for wrapping the will of the greedy and aggressive in a mantle of public acquiescence. Now, the business of wresting power away from those who make a specialty of wielding it will be a long and protracted struggle, with a lot of setbacks along the way. The outlines of the new style of governance are only dimly perceivable, and won't become clear for a long time to come. In the meantime, our job is to practice the principles of fairness and service to the extent possible. One thing is clear: there is a much higher joy in service than there is in acquisition of wealth. (Remember that it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's the love of money.) Hanging together in brother — and sisterhood is so happy-making you want to sing right out loud. Yeah, I feel the same about those ideas as I did then…in case you couldn't tell. heheheh, Peter” - Ask Peter Tork, 2008

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“So many of you are writing letters saying, 'I’m in love with a star. What’ll I do?' Or, 'I love Peter. Please help me!' So, I decided the best person to go to for help would be Peter himself, because, besides getting so many of these letters, he always seems to have a straight-from-the-heart, well-thought-out answer to any problem. In Peter’s Monkee set dressing-room I settled comfortably on the green rug. Peter sat cross-legged on the couch. First of all, I took out one of the many 'Help!' letters and showed it to him. After he read it I asked him just how he felt about being loved like this. He looked at me with his wise, deep but now almost bewildered, eyes and said simply, ‘I think it’s unreal. I don’t believe it.’ From that short, direct answer I thought perhaps that this problem had puzzled him or he just didn’t want to answer it. But Peter dismiss an important problem? Never! He started talking right to all his fans then, through me — and I could tell that this was a problem he’d worried about and considered often — maybe even stayed awake nights looking for an answer. After all, it directly concerns him and all the girls everywhere that he gives happiness to hour after hour, day after day! ‘I think some girls are pretending to feel love for me which is really not love, even though they don’t realize it. They direct their feelings and daydreams toward the image of me they see on the screen or in the magazines. […] ‘[T]hey look at this picture of me which has all the faults removed from it. ‘For instance, you’d never know if I had complexion trouble because it would all be under makeup. You’d never know if I were mean or angry unless you just happened to be in the way of one of my temper tantrums, which sometimes happens to fans. I sometimes lose my temper, like anyone, and if you happen to be in the way of it at the time, you might think, “Oh, what have I done?” You’ve done nothing, I was just being human. […] ‘I’d much rather you just think of me as the kid on the corner who made good. The guy who happens to enjoy being an entertainer, standing on the stage and performing, and who got himself into a little more than he bargained for when the Monkees became famous. […] ‘I’ve grown not to believe in tragedy. I’ve grown to believe that all things work out for the best. Even if you’re in despair, you’re going to discover that there’s more will to live in you than all your despair and you’ll come out of it. The will to live is a will to be cheerful, and to be on top of things. Stay cheerful! ‘In other words, if you really love me, you will look for these constructive ways to help. You’ll step in and help some poor underdog or smile at an unpopular kid. You will help somebody with his homework when he’s failing. These things are really acts of love. For every ounce of energy you think you feel in love towards me, practice generating your own love where it seems not to be wanted, even where you think it won’t be accepted. That’s what’s called Christian love. And it’s better than trying to show your love for me by just helping my career. If you want to buy all my records, that’s cool, because I’m trying to do some nice stuff on the records. But helping my career is not a full-time occupation for anybody. ‘I believe that all is One, that there is only one everything and we call it God, so God is everything.’ With that last, brief, statement, Peter stood up and stretched. It was that time again. He had to go out to the cameras and get back to work with Micky, David and Mike. But he had answered the question so often asked: ‘Please help me… what’ll I do?’ And the more I thought about this last statement, ‘All is One,’ the more I understood what he meant by it. Peter feels that all life is One and that One is Love. Therefore, when you are loving the person near you, you are showing your love for Peter right where you are. You are loving Peter in the very best way possible!” - article by Audrey Hulse, Fave, April 1968

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Photo by fan Saralyn Smith.

“Everyone has a secret fear of some kind. We’re afraid of being with people — we’re sensitive and shy, afraid we don’t look look right or won’t be able to say the right thing… Whatever that secret fear is, the more we fear it, the more we want to hide it — maybe in hopes that it will go away. But it doesn’t. It just gets worse. Strangely enough, sometimes what you fear the most is, in reality, nothing to worry about at all. […] Time and other people’s help and love relieved me of the worst aspects of my fears. I had a chance to figure things out, too. It had dawned on me that there is a difference between being laughed at, which I had been afraid of, and being laughed with. When you are entertaining and clowning around, you are trying to make people laugh and be happy. You want to be laughed with. Now, the qualities that make all the difference between being laughed at and laughed with are acceptance and love. It’s as simple as that! We know that there are people everywhere who seem to carry hate in their hearts. It’s pretty hard to get through to them. But there are many, many more people in the world who have love in their hearts and who like to laugh. And it never hurts to be laughed with. All good comedians are laughed with because they’re loving the audience and the audience is accepting the love that the comedians are giving them. The handful of people who carry hate and send out hate vibrations only deserve to be pitied because they’re missing out on the whole groovy, love-filled happening called life! So, no matter what your secret fear is, if it has to do with people, as most fears do in some way or another, you can apply this solution to it. I know it works because I’ve proved it with mine. Just zero in on it and ask: ‘Are they acting toward you out of love or out of hate?’ If it’s out of hate, there’s really nothing to fear because hate doesn’t really exist — it’s only the absence of love and you can just feel sorry for them. And realize this: your love can fill their emptiness and win out! And, of course, if they’re acting out of love, well, there’s definitely nothing to fear because then they’re with you all the way!” - Peter Tork, interviewed by Audrey Hulse, Fave, May 1968

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Photo by Nurit Wilde (screenshot from Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time).

Another look at some late ‘60s solo gigs: “When the guitar fingers start itching, I go and play down at clubs like a troubadour.” - Peter Tork, New Musical Express, July 1, 1967 “Things were pretty grim [at the Troubadour], with nary a very talented performer in the room, when at about 11.30 Peter Tork himself appeared. He was a charming breath of fresh air and assurance.” - Judy Sims, Disc and Music Echo, May 18, 1968 “At the Troubadour […], Peter Tork strolled in, banjo on his knee. Later, in-between ‘Alvin’ and a great banjo finger-picker, Peter yelled a hello to Mike Nesmith, who was standing in the upstairs darkness and the two fell into a hilarious patter routine. Peter climbed out long enough to display great talent, great warmth, great humor and, in general, a great personality. Mike did the same when, later, I asked him how the album was coming. ‘Album? Oh, Uh huh. Nice weather, yes? Album’s gonna be good. How are you. Hi, Pete, how’s the album?’” - Ginni Ganahal, TeenSet Magazine, February 1968 A National Conference on New Politics mass rally at the L.A. Sports Arena on February 2, 1968 featured appearances by Nina Simone, Steppenwolf — and Peter Tork. “PETER TORK of THE MONKEES DAVID CROSBY of THE BIRDS [sic] STEVE STILLS of THE BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD Plus many other guest celebrities will perform at the [Eugene] McCARTHY FOR PRESIDENT RALLY Saturday, May 25, 8:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Community Theater” - ad in The Berkeley Gazette, May 24, 1968 “Peter Tork answered questions and discussed life from the point of view of a 27-year-old television star and entertainer at the Cow Palace Thursday night. About 1,200 persons attended the show, sponsored by the Spirit Movement 1969, and called For What It’s Worth.’ Tork also sang six or seven songs including the popular Giant Step and Can You Dig It?’” - The Commonwealth Reporter, June 20, 1969 “Tork showed good musicianship on the guitar (gained through years of toil in New York coffeehouses) and a strong, interesting voice — something he rarely was given to displaying on ‘The Monkees’ TV show of a few seasons back. At one point he told his audience, ‘We are trying to get happy. There is too much unhappiness in this world.’ He also told those in his audience ‘not to worry so much.’” - ibid

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“I’m no authority on Buddhism. Nor Christianity, for that matter. But my understanding of Jesus’ message is that forgiveness—understanding that the next person is a fellow struggler in his/her path just like me, and that none of us can judge the next one—is critical to our well-being. Personally I believe that that message, whether you’re a Christian or not, is an absolutely necessary understanding for keeping the planet from going up in atomic vaporization or dying of heat stroke and carbon dioxide poisoning. What I understand the Buddha to have indicated includes the realization that all things are a living, pulsing part of this world, rocks and rockers both. That tells me that my job is to fit into this world with the least disruption possible. I guess that Buddhism isn’t as specific on the question as Christianity is, but I believe that implicit in the two philosophies is the understanding that to not forgive is to make my own life the more difficult, never mind how much more trouble I cause in the outside world if I think I have a right to seek vengeance, or even to harbor a grudge.” - Peter Tork, Ask Peter Tork

“A good attitude generates more comfort. When people say, ‘Why me?’ and How could this happen?’ or ‘Somebody must be made to pay for my problems,’ that attitude is a low-skill approach. It’s not very contentment-making.” - Peter Tork, Toledo Blade, November 2009

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"If you don’t have a sense of community or a higher power, then you blame yourself, think bad of yourself, so you struggle and try to divert. One form of diversion is entertaining. If you can make those thousands love you, you’ll be all right. In fact, it makes no fucking different. It’s a kick when you’re onstage, but an hour and a half later it starts all over." - Peter Tork, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments In Music Babylon (1996)

“I don’t really have a lot to compare it with, since I didn’t have a normal life going on at the time to which I could refer, but at the time when the Monkees hit, the fame thing was very difficult for me. I thought that kids liked our records and that they came to the shows to hear us play the music. That’s why I go to shows. I couldn’t believe it. I had pathological self value. I really didn’t have a sense of it at all. I didn’t get why. I thought I had been picked almost at random. I didn’t have any sense of myself bringing anything except that character to the Monkees. What I thought they hired me for was that character, and I think to this day that that had a lot to do with it. I didn’t recognize how that sprung forth from whom who I really am. I thought I was faking them out. I thought I was handing them a lie and they were buying the lie — and so how could I value myself? Any time you compliment somebody and they can’t take the compliment, what they’re saying to you is, ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ That’s the message that anybody with low self-esteem gives back when somebody compliments them. Which is where I was. All that played into this fame thing. And it plays backwards, too. The reason that I got into the fame game was because I didn’t have any sense of value. I thought, ‘Jeez, if I can get the millions to love me then I’ll be all right.’ I got the millions to love me — and it still wasn’t all right. What a surprise. Ha, ha, ha.” - Peter Tork, Toxic Fame: Celebrities Speak on Stardom (1996)

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Photo (from 2016) by Cloe Poisson.

“One of the things that happens is if you don’t like the Monkees’ music, find something you do enjoy and enjoy it. Bring enjoyment to your heart and soul. Do something you like.” - Peter Tork, Hartford Courant, October 9, 2016

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“For me, it never was a case of the bubble bursting. It was much more a case of leaving the bubble through the airlock as it slowly fizzled away. I only see this in retrospect. At the time, I wanted to get out because wanted to be a Beatle-type musician. I wanted to lead my own band. I had no idea how difficult that was at the time. I just wanted to go off and do my own things. Now I wonder about my attitude then. I think it was probably a false attitude. On the other hand, if I’d been wiser, I might have left earlier. There’s no telling. Like I say, I didn’t have any sense of the bubble bursting. I just walked out of it. I mean, I had the bends for awhile coming back into re-entry, but it wasn’t like the bubble bursting in that I didn’t have a sense that one moment everything was flying high and the next moment everything was miserable. Because I myself did not change my sense of contentment. I found — and I have found consistently — that my sense of contentment has virtually nothing to do with my success. I was very content during certain periods with the Monkees. I was very happy at times, and I was miserable at times. I was happy afterwards sometimes, and I was miserable sometimes afterwards. And the history of my life has almost nothing to do, I’m talking about internal history, the history of my happiness — it has almost nothing to do with the history of my worldly success. So I didn’t have any sense of the bubble bursting. It was just my life carrying on, step by step. […] It’s like I said, the business about worldly sucess [sic] and personal life has very little and almost no correspondence whatsoever. And that applies to the people who are your friends. If I sought my friends out because they were famous, you know, I’d be guilty of the same thing that I hate in other people. And I would be hinging my own life to popular success. And, you know, if you hook your life to any material thing, it’s going to take you up, but it’s eventually going to take you down. You have to hook your life to spiritual values, ’cause that’s the only thing that can continue to take you up indefinitely.” - Peter Tork, Creem Presents… The Monkees: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1987)

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“Philosophy is the thing. How you carry on your day to day life. I read Lao for mental exercise. I feel that destructive things are destructive — no matter how minor or little they might be.” - Peter Tork, Teen Life, June 1967 “Peter also reads The Book of the Tao… all about an ancient Chinese nature philosophy with some simple, beautiful and meaningful messages in it. He studies all kinds of different religions, too. Peter has now figured out his own religion, what seems closest to Truth for him. It’s the result of much studying, thinking and sorting out. Peter was also influenced by the Oriental philosophies Zen. ‘Zen Buddhism believes in the theory of sudden enlightenment or sudden awakening. This idea is Japanese. I believe that Truth can just come to you in a sudden flash and you’ll know where it’s all at, if you prepare yourself to receive it. ‘Zen also teaches that you should just go along and live your life as best you can from minute to minute, always living in the present. You’re already there and there’s nothing else. If you can make the most of each day, accomplish and learn all you can now, you’ll get so much more done in your lifetime than if you sit around waiting for tomorrow to come. Because when tomorrow gets here it’s just another today. You end up just waiting and putting things off and nothing ever gets done. So, try to make each minute count!’” - article by Candy Cotton, Fave, March 1968

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Some continuously relevant observations by Peter at the 1989 Monkees Convention. Footage courtesy of orangeneko.

"I won't go nearly so far as to say that everything that came up in the 60's was valid, but as far as I'm concerned, the 60's were to what will come as Greece was to democracy.  Remember that in the 60's the political officeholders had lost all touch with the needs of the nation…kind of like the Bush administration now.  Back then the voice of the establishment, Life magazine, was discovered to have doctored photos falsely indicating that LSD caused chromosomal damage.  That proved what we (then) kids already knew: that those at the top preached fair play and honesty, but had no more need to honor those concepts than what would give them the next dollar without too much trouble.  We saw perfectly clearly that we were on our own, that no one in authority cared about us. Now, like any bunch of kids left to their own devices, some, many, went off the rails. Every false step by somebody walking around under the cloak of the liberal hippy 60's was used as a pretext for dissing the entire generation.  Those of us who were truly interested in liberty, fraternity and equality, however, knew we were onto something good and real.  What had been called democracy was, and to some extent still is, a pretext for wrapping the will of the greedy and aggressive in a mantle of public acquiescence. Now, the business of wresting power away from those who make a specialty of wielding it will be a long and protracted struggle, with a lot of setbacks along the way.  The outlines of the new style of governance are only dimly perceivable, and won't become clear for a long time to come.  In the meantime, our job is to practice the principles of fairness and service to the extent possible.  One thing is clear: there is a much higher joy in service than there is in acquisition of wealth.  (Remember that it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's the love of money.)  Hanging together in brother - and sisterhood is so happy-making you want to sing right out loud. Yeah, I feel the same about those ideas as I did then…in case you couldn't tell. heheheh, Peter" - Ask Peter Tork, 2008