VARIETY
HANDBOOK FOR THE SEVENTIES
With the recent publication of
The Job
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Burroughs writes who do
not listen. He advances against in–
human Ike who made radioactive
image junk for greed, conspiring
against the daily life of the masses
- so the Authol'ity habit and hu–
man smallness, whose methods were
properly learned, became history
with predatory intent. Can now be
overthrown? ?
With treasonous documents Herr
Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz
tells how
&
his theories on Au–
thority are formidable:
For revolution
to
effect basic
changes in existing conditions
three tactics are required. 1.
Disrupt. 2. Attack. 3. Disap–
pear. Look away. Ignore. For–
get. These three tactics to be
employed
alternatively.
Burroughs says it is necessary to
travel which
is
good advice for
bombers who throw real bombs.
And for pie throwers too. Better
still for hordes of young men armed
with tape recorders under their
jackets. They hurl insult commands
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THE JOB: Interviews
with
William S. Burroughs. By Daniel
Odier. Grove Prus. $5.95.
from electronic tape and walk
away.
O.K.
If
your habit is Authority
it is necessary to travel.
It
is not to
tattle. You must leave your lan–
guage behind and perhaps even the
tactics of the sixties. INVADE.
DAMAGE. OCCUPY. keeps that
habit with you which Burroughs
noted in
The Soft Machine
regard–
ing the
Junk
habit. Herr Doktor
says:
He who opposes force with
counterforce alone forms that
which he opposes and
is
formed by it. History shows
that when a system of govern–
ment is overthrown by force a
system in many respects similar
will take its place. On the
other hand he who does not
resist force that enslaves and
exterminates will be enslaved
and exterminated.
So morning gives tonight with
no country
&
no allies show up on
time.
It
is only natural for the
p0-
lice to attack you. Their indoctrina–
tion provides them with ample de–
graded reasons. The idea is not to
be where they arrive. We have
heard children of the Jews on their
way to the ovens. What are we a
rerun already? The movie industry
