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Rivals 'Zap'

Jerry Rubin, to get back to our
commercial, knows this. His book,
'Do It' is harder to put down than
Zap Comix. His style aims to
please. It hasn't had time to
become anyone's rhetoric. Rubin
makes a much needed assault on
ideological intolerance and offers a
benevolent anarchy as his vision of
the future. Islands of love.

He is for real, which makes a
difference. He has always forced
politics to deal with him on his own
terms. That put him, politically,
miles ahead of the competition. He
has never forgotten that politics for
its own sake it after bullshit. He has
no program. Says a Yippie has no
use for somebody else's program,
somebody else's ass in your face.

Yippies, Rubin says, are leaders
without followers.

We are a different culture than
our parents. Seven year olds will
have a different culture than we do.
The Revolution is cultural. Politics
is part of a dying culture, along
with slogans, jingles, ideology and
planned obsolescence. That makes
Rubin more than the vanguard of
the Revolution. He represents the
Revolution's only hope.