Peter Coyote quotes
A guy like Peter Berg may be more useful for you at that than I am. He has this amazingly retentive and organized mind. My mind is like a bed sheet that's been blasted with a shotgun while it's hanging on the line. I have big holes.
A lot of people had that experience of being free, and those people are like an invisible virus in the culture at large today.
After we left the Mime Troupe, we were rolling stones, just out there.
Am I sounding incredibly pompous?
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
Any structure is mutable, but once you've chosen it, then you have to accept it-if you're ever going to get any depth.
Around 1975, I was working for the governor of California, running public policy in the arts.
At a certain point the idea of autonomy leads you to accept responsibility for those attitudes of the majority culture that you are re-creating in your own behavior. And if you don't at least admit that you do that, you're dishonest.
Basically, in an autonomous system, you're on your own.
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
Compared to traditional theater, the Mime Troupe was very, very free and very, very lucid and appropriate. We went to New York, and in '67, I think, we won an Obie. It fried my brain.
Death is inevitable. It struck me as a maimed and lame existence to do anything but just absolutely resist death, absolutely fight it tooth and nail, since the conclusion was preordained. So what a sorry existence to turn around and deliver yourself to death.
Even over the environment, are nuclear issues. That's the mega threat to all living systems. There are still 18,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert on the planet. There are tons of waste dumps all over the United States.
Every once in a while wars sweep through, and savagery and other things. Rwanda as an event circumnavigates around the planet. It shows up in Bosnia, it'll show up on this continent one day. Whether it's over current economic seeds or whether it's a century in the future, something will happen.
Everyone acknowledged that we were the products of bourgeois culture. There was a lot of competition, certainly among the men: Who was more bourgeois? Who was more revolutionary?
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