Allen Ginsberg V: Playboy viðtal

Playboy: What kind of life do you think these young people [hipparnir] want to lead?

AG: Here I can talk only about the life I’d like: more contact with nature; more and more occupation with exploration of subjective consciousness and enlargement of areas of inner and outer sensibility; more participation in rhythmic theater; and liberation of sexual energy from population reproduction. Since the Biblical injunction to “be fruitful and multiply” isn’t sacramentally appropriate anymore, it seems to me that the time has come for the orgy to become a communal form of “adhesive” democratic festival. Ideally, what should have happened in Chicago, for example, was that the Festival of Life should have eclipsed the convention with the glow of thousands of naked bodies intertwined, making love, spurting semen all over the newsmen and TV cameras and one another on the grass, all to the accompaniment of yab-yum mantras and naked rock-’n'-roll artists swinging through trees.

Playboy: You’ve got to be kidding.

Allen Ginsberg: Spontaneous Mind - selected interviews 1958-1996. Bls. 189.