Sadly, NOT Great Books: David Horowitz is a Confused Person that has written about 30 Books. He was Wrong in the Sixties and Continues to be Wrong Today.

He Awakened my Knowledge of Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies When He was Interviewed on C-Span BookTV by Eric Metaxas... For Example... He says: Since Scientists Do Not Know the Original Origin of Life on Earth, They are Therefore Wrong about Climate Change. Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, BOGUS! He says: The "Green New Deal" Will Pay People To Do Nothing. He is Confusing "Universal Basic Income" with "Green New Deal." They are two different ideas. REALLY... The Green New Dead DOES Propose to Take the US Government Subsidies for Fossil Fuel and Spend that Money replacing Diesel School Buses with Electric Vehicles. Actually, That's a Smart Idea! 

During the Sixties and Early Seventies he wrote books Singing the Praises of Joseph Stalin and Communism. You had to be a TOTAL RETARD to believe that... Everybody Knew that the Mass Starvation in Both the USSR and China Proved that System Flawed. The only system that Communism is better than is MONARCHY... and that's why both the USSR and China did Communism briefly... Throw the CZAR OUT! but then they GOT A CLUE and rejected Communism. How Could David Horowitz Still Believe in Marx/Lenin all the Way up until 1974? I believe in Groucho Marx and John Lennon... Much Better... Anyway, He WOKE UP when the Black Panthers (that he was working with) Murdered a Woman he Knew... and All His Friends Blamed The White Society... Very Odd Ideas... 

SO, He FLIPPED and became a "Conservative" - Another Failed Economic System. Ronald Reagan's "VOODOO ECONOMICS" has proven to be a Disaster. The Entire Concept of "Give More Money to the Rich and then MAGICALLY they will share." Just Doesn't Happen. They also Call this System "Trickle Down" Economics... Because the Super Rich Take a Piss on the Working Class and Call it Rain. The only Economic System that could POSSIBLY WORK is "Bubble Up" Economics. Raise Wages and All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Gets Spent at American Businesses, Increasing Profits. Causing Businesses to Hire More People to Handle the Extra Sales. Reducing Unemployment Insurance Costs, Increasing Income Taxes Paid. EVERYBODY WINS. 

He Does Spend a Lot of Time in this Interview Wondering IF GOD EXISTS and How someone could Prove It or Disprove It... That Sounds Like a TOTALLY TRIVIAL QUESTION. Go Ahead, believe whatever you want... Just Don't Kill People that Don't Believe Like You Do. The Christians and the Muslims have been murdering each other for over a Thousand Years OVER NOTHING! 

Then he Declares that Democrats Favor Using Totalitarianism to Force Hundreds Of Millions of People to Give Up Their Gas Guzzling Cars... Somehow he has Confused Joe Biden with an EARTH FIRST! Eco-Warrior. I hope that for his NEXT BOOK he Pulls His Head Out of His Ass. 

https://www.amazon.com/Mortality-Faith-Reflections-Journey-through/dp/1621578135/ref=asc_df_1621578135/

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

The culture of the United States was 

radically different After the 1960's... 

The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

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The Diggers of San Francisco were a street theatre company famous for their slogan "Today is the first day of the rest of your Life." They provided free food in Golden Gate park to needy Hippies during the Summer of Love. They also created a "Free Store" where all the merchandise was free. I suppose that they were skilled in getting donations. They also walked around Haight Street with a giant picture frame that passers by could step through in order to change their "Frame of Reference." The Diggers were part of the SF mime troupe, Bill Graham worked for them also as a benefit dance promoter/arranger to raise funds  by having local bands play and selling tickets. He later became the most successful rock music show promoter in the USA.

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Currently, a peaceful village called Arcata, California thrives using the basic concepts of Flower Power. It's on Highway 101 near the Oregon Border... Home of Humboldt State University...  If you want to experience the bliss yourself, take a loan from the Federal Department of Education and go to college at HSU. Arcata also is the center of Marijuana farming in the USA. The vast majority of the Grass is grown in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties... The extreme North Western corner of California. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-california.html

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"Beyond Counterculture" Book is the History of the Hippies who fled The Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco and Moved to MATEEL in Southern Humboldt County to Earn their living farming Cannabis. Originally a Doctoral thesis.

Between the Eel and Matole Rivers, Garberville and the Lost Coast.
Mateel is a Sunny and Warm.
Once PALCO logged the area, the land was really cheap. Perfect for growing Marijuana Outdoors. This location is Not on Google Streetview.

Beyond Counterculture: The Community of Mateel 

Paperback – June, 1990 by Jentri Anders.

https://www.facebook.com/jentri.anders

http://www.amazon.com/Jentri-Anders/e/B001KIM0T0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/annotated-map-of-northern-california.html

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Cosmic Art Show - Absurdist Images created in Potatoshop by Greg Vanderlaan

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/07/cosmic-art-show-absurdist-images.html

Free Psychedelic Art - Global Awakening is Real and Happening Now

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/free-psychedelic-art-global-awakening.html

Rainbow Gathering Idaho 2001: A Gathering of the Tribes...

I went to the gathering with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. I was Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory. When there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road.... READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html

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Grateful Deadhead ART and MyStory... American History...

 I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,

creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.

Our English teacher

stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating

with a different set of people... READ MORE:

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-art-and-mystory.html

Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and Stories. 

Many thanks to all that made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our lives together were written as a fiction story, everyone would dismiss it as being unbelieveable... Yet it all really happened!

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

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