THE AMERICAN SPRING

Gutenberg’s printing press was the greatest invention since the phonetic alphabet. It revolutionized the world. It caused many revolutions all over the world. Revolutions were not new, but revolutionary movements were hundreds of yours apart and it took very rich kings and nights to lead such movements. The printing press changed all that. Right became might. The pen became mightier than the sword. Suddenly the world could be changed through newspapers or leaflets. Your enemies could take your leaflets and destroy them. But they could not destroy your ideas because your printing press could print out your ideas by the millions. The age of barbarism began to die out. It became possible to fight your enemies with paper and ink instead of arrows or bullets. Moreover, paper and ink is cheaper than arrows and bullets. You didn’t have to be rich to pass out leaflets on a public street. (Although the malls are causing public streets to go extinct.) You didn’t have to hire an army of barbarian hordes to bring about change.

However, paper and ink has its limitations. Although paper and ink is cheap, it is limited to a few sheets to be distributed to a few hundred people. But if you write a book and you are trying to distribute it to thousands of people, then you’re talking big beaucoup bucks. Then you have to be a rich king to bring about change.

You are also limited to walking range. You can’t pass out leaflets very well if you’re driving down Broadway at 25 m.p.h. You have to walk. But that doesn’t mean that people will accept your leaflets. When I used to pass out leaflets on the streets of Los Angeles, very few people would read my leaflets. The few that did, would just read the cartoon and throw it away. It was very strange. I couldn’t understand why people were so afraid of my leaflets. Later on I found out why. Some of my friends had been arrested for distributing political literature on the sidewalks of L.A. One of the arresting officers was a federal police officer named Laurence (a.k.a. Larry)Vann. I asked him why he arrested my friends. He said that it is a crime to distribute literature on federal property and all sidewalks (pavement) in the U.S. are federal property.

“That’s not true,” I said, “I have law books that say that the supreme court says that all public areas freely open to the general public are legal venues for freedom of speech.”

Then he smiled and turned away from me saying: “If people are too stupid to know that everybody has the right to freedom of speech on any sidewalk, then they don’t deserve the right to freedom of speech.” He later denied this in federal court, of course.

The computer, along with the internet and social media, has changed everything. It is the greatest invention since Gutenberg’s printing press. It will cause 100 times more revolutions than the printing press. Although violent revolutions are inevitable, it is the greatest form of PEACE technology. Benito Juarez said:

“When words stop flying,

the fists start flying.

When the fists stop flying,

the bullets start flying.”

Freedom of speech is possible only for the rich editors and media directors in the U.S.

Riots like the Rodney King riot of 1992 was the poor man’s freedom of speech. But social media like Facebook, Tweeter, MySpace, DiviantArt, etc., is a non-violent weapon that eventually will keep the words flying so that the fists and bullets will never start flying. It is social media that caused the Arab spring and the Russian spring. And now there will be the AMERICAN SPRING. Paper and ink are now obsolete. Now you can walk around the world at the speed of light and pass out leaflets to hundreds of people automatically while you are doing something else. Officer Vann cannot arrest you. Officer Charles Tate (a.k.a. Frank 25) cannot take away your leaflets as he used to do in 1998. Every day, federal police like Laurence Vann, Charles Tate, or Carlos Vasquez are arresting people for passing out leaflets or protesting against U.S. customs. Prisons and mental hospitals are overcrowded with political prisoners. But social media will change everything without paper or ink.

When they arrest you for protesting (a.k.a. P.D.D.) they take you to a mental hospital like Del Amo. They will ask you stupid questions about hearing voices in your head, having a radio implanted in your brain, or talking to E.T. in outer space. But social media will change everything. Doctors like Wong, Hirsch, or Abjelina will be more worried about becoming the laughing stock of the world in Russian, Arabic, French, etc. than to give a rat’s spit about the freaken radio implanted in your brain.

They will be more worried about how many readers you have than to give a freak about the freaken voices that you’re supposed to be hearing in your head.

Hundreds of mental hospitals will go out of business because of social media. Thousands of unemployed psychiatrists will be living on welfare and sleeping on the streets like hobos. That will be the AMERICAN SPRING