John Cage was an avant -garde experimental musician who wrote the sort of elitist music that my friend Dick likes to call "a load of bollocks". John Cage wrote this pious poem too. It is of a similar elitist quality as his music.
'We don't need government
We need utilities.
Air, water, energy,
Travel and communication means
Food and shelter.
We have no need for imaginary mountain ranges
Between separate nations.
We can make tunnels through the real ones.
Nor do we have any need for the continuing division of people
Into those who have what they need
And what they don't.
Both Fuller and Marshall McLuhan
Knew, furthermore
That work is now obsolete.
We have invented machines to do it for us.
Now that we have no need to do anything
What shall we do?
Looking at Fuller's geodesic world map
We see that the earth is a single island, Oahu.
We must give all the people all they need to live
In any way they wish.
Our present laws protect the rich from the poor.
If there are to be laws, we need ones that
Begin with the acceptance of poverty as a way of life.
We must make the world safe for poverty. Without dependence on government.'
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