From “Light My Fire..My Life With The Doors.”

By Ray Manzarek 

“ The entertainment conglomerates and the consumer goods industries have supplied our every need. But we feel unfulfilled, vaguely unsatisfied. Something’s missing from our modern lives. Something’s wrong, something’s not right.

And that something is what the powers that be, the Establishment, as we called them in the sixties, don’t ever want you to have. PASSION and INTENSITY!
We want a passionate life lived in a state of ecstasy. A life of intensity and deep emotions.

 But we’re not allowed to have that. Because if we did… we would be free. We could step out of the closed circle of our psychic bondage and be free men and women on the planet.
And that is what the Establishment doesn’t want you to have…..freedom. For then we would gain wisdom and we wouldn’t put up with the crap that corporate America is feeding us. We wouldn’t buy their junk. Their junk products and their junk entertainment.
We would demand passion and intensity and art and a saving of the planet.
We wouldn’t accept the meth-head bonehead frenzy we now live in.
And that’s why the powers that be must stop the “counterculture.”
It’s a battle of lifestyles. It’s the poets verses the manufacturers of CRAP! 
And beware, my friends…they are relentless