I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates … - Paul Krassner

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Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

Paul Krassner

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

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