New Preface: About The Z-D Generation
I wrote The Z-D Generation (it) in the summer of 1978 as an introduction
to a book of 13 short stories, as yet unpublished, called Nuke Shrine
Barbecue: Stories from the Age of Surveillance (it). The stories are
set in the anti-war movement of the late 1960s and early 70s, with a few
inside what could be called the military-industrial-surrealist complex.
The mid- and late-70s, following the fall of Richard Nixon, and the end
of the Vietnam War, were a time of expectation that Investigation and
Muckraking might help change America for the better. American reporters,
for a change, actually took chances to bore into the core of certain secret
aspects of the American Imperium. There had been several Congressional
investigations that had exposed, for example, the CIA’s foreign assassination
activities, and the CIA’s illegal domestic program called CHAOS, which
was designed to disrupt the American anti-war movement, particularly the
underground press. Army Intelligence, it turned out, placed a spy in the
Chicago 7 defense camp, and the ghastly FBI Cointelpro program, designed
to stir up dissension and plant lies against a wide variety of groups
and American citizens, came to public knowledge during the years just
before I wrote The Z-D Generation (it). Accordingly, I wrote
my manifesto as a hopeful encouragement to a generation to make America
better through insisting on knowing the nation’s secrets while the secrets
are still warm from the oven. I had a great belief in the power of words,
as seed syllables, to make a better world. Little did I know in 1978 that
Ronald Reagan’s years in the White House would bring a version of the
British Official Secrets Act to the USA, so that now, 23 years after I
typed Z-D (it), secrets are kept more ferociously secret than ever,
and maybe even secret forever.
- Ed Sanders August, 2001.
1.
The Age of Investigation
"This
is the age of
Investigation and every citizen must investigate"
Eleutherarchy has taken to the airwaves
since the days of Dostoevsky,
and the Freedom is there for all
Therefore,
NEVER HESITATE TO OPEN
UP
A CASE FILE
EVEN
UPON THE BLOODIEST OE BEASTS
OR
PLOTS!
We still
sec the day of
RELENTLESS
PURSUIT
OF DIVA!
Interrogate
the Abyss!
To go after
an item of time,
(as
Olson says: p. 134 of
The
Human Universe & Other Essays,
the
essence is to
"KNOW
TILE NEW FACTS EARLY.")
Draw
a graph or glyph
of
your investigation target
surround
the glyph
with
gnosis-vectors
pointing
to the target
and never surrender!
Learn
everything to be known
about
your
data
target
then procede
with Question Lists (very important
to have precise,
written,
Q-Lists)
toward
the
data-target
^
dt
Then
its robot-targeting:
if you get knocked down,
flame-mouthed,
confused by the target's
hype
or threats,
stand
up, reassemble your Q-Lists,
and proceed again toward the data-target
----> ^ ----> knock down ----> ^ ----> knock down ---->
^
dt dt
dt
Holding
ever in mind
The
Three Adverbs
C/R/E
Ceaselessly/Relentlessly/Ethically.
Not
that there will be no danger, though we urge the
Three
Adverbs upon you--
Just
keep in mind, when targeting, say a possible
national
security psychotic killer hidden in a tweed suit,
St.
Augustine's dictum,
very
suitable to remember,
stress-questioning
hostile data-sources:
"The
wicked persecute
the
good w/ the blindness
of
the passion that animates them,
while
the good pursue the
wicked
with a wise discretion"
The
secret campaigns
of
the FBI in recent
years
encouraged Secret Sadism.
No
more Secret Sadism!
The
FBI, Military Intelligence,
The
CIA, the dour minions
of
National Security w/ repressionist
psyches,
must
be confronted, infiltrated, exposed,
and
transformed.
Art,
Psychology, Openness, Love, Bravery,
and
Relentlessness--
these
are our tools.
Not
just
Investigation,
but
Infiltration--
Demand to infiltrate the National Security grouch apparatus!
Poets, union organizers, academics, environmentalists, people of all persuasions,
must demand to join, to observe, to participate in,
councils of the military, councils of the police, and organizations
of the right, in order to come into contact with the War Caste.
All
poets and writers should
occasionally
take on an investigation
that
requires close scrutiny of, and contact
with,
the police.
Don't
be only an image in a dossier.
(Demand to know and to talk with the police -- investigate th' investigators.
Demand to know the technology, the techniques, and the personal philosophies
of the secret police. Demand citizen input during working
hours in the offices of the National Security Agency, say, as well as
your local Sheriff's office intelligence division, not to mention the
Office of
Naval Intelligence, and the Pentagon's weapons research laboratories.
And why should not groups of United States Citizens be drawn by lot for
inspection of the nation's most sensitive top secret documents,
plans, and proposals? And why do we not sec women high in the councils
of the War Caste yet? Why should not, during an interim period, a delegation
from
the National Organization for Women serve on the National Security
Council, and have a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff?)
And do
not be beaten away from the barricades of investigation
by fear, by shyness, by stonewall, or by the glowerings of
National Security grouches.
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