What do you have to say? Have you been told that recently in France, some six or sevenstudents have set themselves on fire?What?! Yes.Set themselves ... ... on fire, and they died.How horrible! Seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boys.Oh!... Students.It's the latest fad - here also they wanted to do the same thing.... What's that? A protest against this suffocating society.How horrible.... In France? In France. As far as we've been told, the students who have reacted are froma very average milieu. One of them said it was in protest against the slaughter in Biafra....Where? In Africa. One entire African tribe (the Ibos) has been halfannihilated with the complicity of the English, the Russians, these and those others and so on.Why? Because they wanted to secede.That's incredible!... No, I am not aware of what's going on. Those territories used to belong to the British, they were unifiedunder the thumb of the British, and when the British left one whole tribe wanted to secede and the other side tried to prevent secession with weapons from Britain, weapons from Russia, weapons ... So little by little they have been crushed. The only country which did protest is France.Ah! Anyway, there's a whole political affair which isn't very pretty.But in the mind of one of those students, it was to "atone for the slaughter in Biafra."Oh!... In fact, it is a protest against this society ... this false societywithout future.Yes, what's going on on the earth is really ugly. Yes, it's ugly. page 75-76 , Mother's Agenda , volume 11 , 7th Feb - 1970 |