[UA] Circle of Friends -- Sounds of 70s Campaign Ideas

[Stuart Anderson]

Cassady Toles wrote:

>   I have a problem with the words Robert, Anton, Wilson, and Bible showing up
> in the same sentence.  I like conspiracy stories, but I don't like R.A.W.
> I'm not particularly into it, and there's so much better stuff out there...

I don't disagree with you for a second, but the flaws in Wilson's writings are very
70s self-indulgent kinds of flaws. I have little use for Casteneda and Hubbard,
either. Does anyone remember a n archetypically 70s comic strip called Odds Bodkins,
by Dan O'Neill? Or the album Free to be You and Me, featuring Rosie Greer singing
about how it's OK for kids to cry? Or an  animated film--I don't actually know if it
was released in the 70s--I've only seen it as PBS programming around one holiday or
another--called, I think, Dot? About the adventures of a circle who leaves his
village and has adventures, encountering lots of strange, pointy figures? There may
have been a Dot series, too, I'm starting to get all fuzzy about this. But all this
stuff, as widely divergent as the subject matter is, has some kind of common vibe. I
can't exactly put my finger on it. Something about a willingness to work with
abstract ideas too thinly veiled to seem useful to people in previous or subsequent
decades. Oh--Jonathon Livingston Seagull would fit in here, too. If you could narrow
down this nebulous feel I'm trying to talk about, you'd have a paradox upon which to
build a DiscOU school of magick.
--Stu


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