You Brought It Upon Yourselves

[Instrumental]

[Monologue: Alan Watts]
Every sane society allows a certain number of people to deviate
You don't have to join, that don't have to play the game
A society which is insane and unsure of itself cannot allow that to happen
It says everybody must join
Everybody must learn
Everybody must belong
Then freedom disappears

You can go running around the wheel in the rat race
Just as long as you want, so long as you think it’s fun
And if there comes a time when you no longer think it’s fun to be anxious, you don’t have to continue

[Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell in "Silent Running"]
On Earth, everywhere you go, the temperature is 75 degrees
Everything is the same, all the people are exactly the same
Now what kind of life is that?

[Monologue: Alan Watts]
When a society allows a certain number of people to withdraw
It should have no anxiety that everyone would want to withdraw
Because some people are absolutely fascinated in competition, in being involved, in playing the game

There have to be people, who stand outside the game
And do not identify themselves with a class
With a name
With an ego
With a persona
With a role

Every sane society allows a certain number of people to deviate
You don't have to join, that don't have to play the game
A society which is insane and unsure of itself cannot allow that to happen
It says everybody must join
Everybody must learn
Everybody must belong
Then freedom disappears

You don't have to join, that don't have to play the game
A society which is insane and unsure of itself cannot allow that to happen