I Dropped Out In '64. And I

I More Or Less Shared The View That Life Should Be Lived.

Can We Imagine A Different World? I Can. That's A World Where Work Is Rational, It's In The Common Good, And We're Actually Producing Real Things Rather Than Spinning Our Wheels In Dreams Of Consumer Heaven.

I Have An Addiction To Caffeine.

Without A Doubt. It's Woven Into Our Dna In A Very Deep Way And So To Kind Of Be Smacked In The Face With The Hypocrisy Of The America That We Were Sold Was A Liberating And Harsh Experience.

Living In A Bubble As I Said In A Featherbed Of Privilege. That's Why Leaving Home, Leaving The Prep School And Going To The University Of Michigan In The Early '60s Was A Moment Of Awakening And To Go To A Place Like Michigan And To See Suddenly A World In Flames And The Injustices All Around Was Quite A Wake Up Call. I Lasted A Year And A Half At Michigan Before I Dropped Out And Joined The Merchant Marines And I Was A Merchant Marine For My Sophomore Year Then I Came Back To Michigan.