Hawkwind Political messages

[Chris Owen]

Hi Jon,

I think you may be getting a bit over cynical there!
I do appreciate the irony of the Hawkwind Passports although there is probably 
good reason why they want to know who will be coming to private events.

Ultimately, I do think the music is most important but the message in the lyrics
is also important and I happen to sympathise with 95% of it, especially the inconvenient truth. 
I am an engineer myself and so I am against ludditism, but then Hawkwind were always known for 
not being against new technology and for not being afraid taking the latest musical equipment 
and using it however they wished.
As for "stop the world I want a ticket to get off" well we will need a space program to do that
as well as a new home to go to; Planet Hawking? Planet Hawkwind? Planet Viridian?

I had this idea once of designing a whole virtual planet and society called Planet Viridian which I was going to put online;
I got as far as doing away with politicians, nation states, organised religon, military, weapons research,
medical waiting lists,  traffic wardens, social workers, multibillionaires, passports we could travel and live anywhere
and over population, 1 Billion max.
Everything was just about quality of life and natural morality and fairness and justice but I ran out of time and money!

Chris