do the usual succession things, we preferred to just cease supply and let demand create its own sources. Our hope was that those sources would be more diverse and better than we had been, or could have been if we had continued.
So, in June 1971, we had the Demise Party celebrating the self-termination of the Whole Earth Catalog, and all in all it was a rout. Fifteen hundred people showed up. San Francisco’s Exploratorium staff had their museum weirding around us full steam. At midnight, Scott Beach announced from the stage that these here two hundred $100 bills, yes, $20,000, were now the property of the party-goers, just as soon as they could decide what to do with them.
“Flush them down the toilet!” “No, don’t!” “Give it to the Indians!” “Bangladesh!” “Our commune needs a pump or we’ll all get
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ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES & EVOLUTION THROUGH THE AGES