{"id":1000,"date":"2004-02-01T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2018-03-30T23:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T23:14:52","slug":"the-declaration-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2004\/02\/01\/the-declaration-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration of Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Timothy Leary<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s God entitle them, a decent concern for the harmony of species requires that the causes of the mutation should be declared.
\nWe hold these truths to be self evident:
\n\u2022 That all species are created different but equal;
\n\u2022 That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;
\n\u2022 That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;
\n\u2022 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;
\n\u2022 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.
\nGenetic 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.
\nBut 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.
\nSuch 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.
\nThe 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth\u2019s abundance and God\u2019s endowment.
\n\u2022 They have glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.
\n\u2022 They have claimed private, personal ownership of God\u2019d land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.
\n\u2022 In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of people.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 In their fear they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 In their greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.
\n\u2022 For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.
\n\u2022 In their impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.
\n\u2022 In their aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age over youth.
\n\u2022 They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence of thought.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.
\n\u2022 They have enlisted an army of informers.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 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.
\n\u2022 They are bores.
\n\u2022 They hate beauty.
\n\u2022 They hate sex.
\n\u2022 They hate life.
\nWe 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.
\nWe must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God\u2019s creatures \u2013 in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to life.
\nWe, 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.
\nAnd 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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