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I've ran into discussions of a concept that's been referred to as "The Now" lately in Movement newsletters. I'm all in favor of the Movement becoming familiar with this idea as it is an important one but I want it made certain that it is known that this originated with Charles Manson. I predicted years ago that Manson's ideas would invade all areas of Movement thought and they have and are continuing to do so. But, being of the Rockwell school, I believe in giving credit where it is due.
First of all, I personally would never have any tolerance for any "hippie jargon", as the System calls it, just I have none for superstitious garbage. The terms are "new", mainly for purposes of emphasis and clarity because the older terms have been rendered cliché and stand for things which are threadbare. Manson was required to practically re-invent the language in order to get his points across. I assure you, his concepts are quite real and valid.
Basically, it is this: the great majority of people live in a mental world split between the past and the future. Few live life. Instead, they are "starring in their own movie", to quote Manson. But the "past" and the "future" exist nowhere but in the mind, or on film or record, or on paper as fiction. The one is gone and the other hasn't yet taken place. We exist in the Now whether we like it or not. And the Now is all we've really got. No wonder why such a tiny few are in such total control of the present- most others are off someplace else.
All true revolutionaries will be found within this arena, center stage, right along with the System Task Masters themselves, because only here can the struggle for command of the fate of the world be decided. Some of the religionists in the past have made the statement that, "we are on a victory march". Blind faith leads them to kid themselves and bluff– or try to bluff– others. I doubt that they knew what they were talking about. I happen to know one thing: I, for one, am in the Now and nearly twenty years of the most bitter experience has made me more than the equal of any System wire-puller. I don't know how much company I've got but I do know that it is only a matter of further disruption of the inertia behind the System coupled with the increased exertion of will on our part and the balance is swung.
Where it's fundamental, we've already won. At least around these parts. Our job is to let them know they have been broken and by whom.
[Vol. XIV, #6– June, 1985]
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