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Malcolm
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The Dream…The Creation of Hot Mont
Forward by Malcolm Drie …Rolling Rock
Magazine 11/24/00
As more and more people become interested
in Hot Mont, many enlightening pieces of information have come
forward. He left many bits of himself and his philosophies in
his travels.
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It has been amazing the amounts of
information people have sent in to us. We, at first, were
concerned about the validity of some of the pieces. Through
comparison techniques that have been developed over the years,
we have managed to accumulate several short essays and
letters, which are uniquely Hot Mont. Some were signed. Some
just carry Hot Mont's uniqueness, which is very easily
recognized. But there were a few pieces that were sent in that
were bogus. Poor imitations that were meant to discredit Hot.
After all this time, I had a hard time believing that people
would still try to refute the correctness of his
interpretation of his time and of the things to
come.
It was not his political views that were so
important but his insight into what would happen
socially if we, as a people, did not recognize what we
were doing to ourselves. It has happened several times
throughout history, yet we as a society believe it would never
happen to us. Many of Hot Mont's prognostications have come to
be since his disappearance and yet we still continue down that
road of destruction he described so vividly back in the
Seventies.
The piece that follows is clearly a very early
writing of Hot Mont's. This piece is supposedly (and
appears) to be from his personal journal dated Thursday,
January 15th, 1970.
The story behind this document is that circa 1975, Hot
had had enough of one particular group of liberal
protesters that were always bang up against him and his music.
To substantiate his point, he sent this handwritten page from
his journal with a time line laying out what he believed to be
the path of our society if we did not heed his warnings. One
of these liberals "unintentionally" filed the document in the
archives of the group, thereby preserving it. This person
recently had heard that we (HMS2000) were gathering any
and all information on Hot Mont. She sent it to us; with a
letter basically saying she was glad she had hung on to
document and she now understands what Hot was trying to tell
everyone.
I wonder if this writing could be
another of the many reasons that so many people of the
seventies, who considered themselves liberals then, are
conservatives today?
THE
DREAM:
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January 15th
It's 4:00 AM
… I hate it when I can't sleep… I keep having this same
dream over and over… Gees…I gotta get some sleep.
Classes are going to be a bitch today… I need to
write this down so I can study it later when I am not so
tired…
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I wake up in my dream and I'm in this huge,
dark stadium… On stage in the center of the stadium is
huge red creature, human in appearance… he was
exceptionally pleasant to look at and his voice dripped
of honey… I thought… betcha this guy could charm the
pants off a nun. The stadium was divided into five
groups…and I didn't fit in to any of them…then again I
was on the stage and not part of the
groups…
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As I
peer from the stage, I see women of
all shapes, sizes, color and
age…
…much,
much larger than any of the other groups… they took up
over half of the stadium.
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He started by saying… "You have so much more to offer
than just nurturing children and taking care of some man…What
needs to be done is to convince the government that you should
be treated as an underprivileged group, a minority if you
will… though we all know that women
outnumber men by at least 2 to 3 percent in this
country…Your goals are: (once the first group has set it's
actions in motion) is to convince government that the
treatment of women in this country is unethical and unfair…
This will create a new group of people to demand the
government should serve them… you will need to demand that
programs of social and economical aid be extended to your
group… you will be able to reduce the family's influence by
forcing men out of work causing more growth in the need for
government services… You people are the key to my
plan… . Demand position by quota, not experience and
ability…demand that physical qualification levels are
brought down to a level that qualifies you for any and all
positions…You will still need to bear children, so you
will need the government to help you raise your offspring
…make sure the children are accustomed to the government
taking care of them... Fight and embrace your new position
in your society!". The roar of the applause was
deafening as the red being turned to his left to address the
next group.
Directly ahead of the red creature was a
group of blacks…and he addressed them thusly:
"In order for you to be considered equal with the whites, you
need to make yourselves known through acts of defiance… demand
that the government give you relief from your plight…food,
housing, money, healthcare, and opportunities that everyone
normally has to work to earn…our object here is to take from
those who have and share their wealth, create the need for a
larger government in order to serve you… most everything has
been in place to serve poor white people for some time now…
you only need to demand rights to those services and make sure
that you use them, because you deserve them… demand
equality; not for the obvious reason that you are indeed
equal; instead muddle that simple fact by instead
demanding quotas in job placement, housing, education,
anything else you feel that you deserve… demand reparations
for things that have happened in the past." The creature smiles radiantly at the group
in front of him as the people applaud him…He waves to quiet
the group as he turns to his left and faces the next
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I look out
from the stage… to see a group of people, much smaller than the
first two groups; I couldn't see any distinguishing characteristics
right away. I notice diversity in this group than wasn't present in
the first two groups. Many different types of people, nationalities
didn't play a role in this group, religion didn't seem to have any
bearing on this group, and gender was not an issue in this
group…
The creature
started out by saying… "The planet thanks you." I knew right
away who this group was… It was
the environmentalists… a group that thinks
it's more important to preserve at all costs rather than advance
with care and consideration for the world around us. They have good
intentions but in most cases go off half-cocked without objectively
looking at things from all sides (in my opinion). .. the creature
continued…" You will be my first international endeavor in this
crusade…your goals are to get governments involved in regulating commerce anytime it appears to be
violating nature in anyway… specially if it will affect a
company from this country, such as reducing its income , or even
putting out of business…use any mean necessary to promote your
cause…Use skewed, incomplete information and only tell the side that benefits your
stance, and if push comes to shove just out and out
lie, many will believe your positions are valid…… International
government restrictions on capitalism … oh still my beating heart… I
don't need to lecture you on your causes…Just keep doing what you
do… and we will succeed"…
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Once gain the group
applauded…
The creature turned to his left once more and
faced the next group, with a big smile on his face… "Ah … my
infiltrators… my innocent immigrants… you who need shelter from oppression… you who
will enter and wreak havoc…Once the first two groups work
their programs and succeed in getting the society to accept
the word diversity…enter you to
carry it one step farther… you will not want to
relinquish your ethnicity, your language, your way of life to
join their society… you will
want all of the benefits available from living in their world
but in reality you will be there to bring it down… turn their diversity into division… turn their
unity into dissention…go dismiss the melting pot analogy that
has been used for years… use the government to validate your
separation and encourage others to do so as well… this should
confuse the populace to no end … one group fighting for rights
that guarantee inclusion and another group fighting for rights
that guarantee preservation of ethnicity and separation"…even
the creature shakes his head at this…(if they even notice…but
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As the
creature revels in the applause, he turns slowly to the last
group…"Yes…my lawyers… the
tools… you will make this all happen… in the name of helping society…and
take 40% while you do it… you are the
only group that actually gets to make the rules by which you
play. And I know you will do a fine job with this
cause of mine… Write for me the laws to advance the cause… use the
courts to enforce these laws… create the
illusion that you work for the betterment of society…
sacrifice your integrity and corrupt the system anyway possible with
ridiculous laws and lawsuits…make morality a question in things that
would normally be unacceptable… make the society question the basics
of right and wrong…you will help all of the other groups to achieve
their goals… you will do it quietly and incrementally… no one will correlate your action with any grand
scheme… you will just appear as if you are being greedy,
corrupt, and just looking for a new way to make a buck… the society
will just throw up their hands and say "He's
just being a lawyer" … No one will care after a while… That
is how we will overthrow this society"…
The creature raised his arms and circled the stage,
addressing all of the people in the stadium. "Listen, my friends,
follow the cause, do as you are instructed and we will topple this
behemoth of a nation without a fight… they've become lazy
and complacent…not understanding what their government is
doing and not caring… it is no
longer a government of or by the people…as
long as they think they are getting something from the
government, they will be unwilling to stop us regardless of what
they may recognize in our methods… their
memories are short and getting shorter every year. Take your time… we will do this incrementally,
gradually over several years so as not to draw attention to our
goals…Our job will be easy as long as these sheep stay
asleep like they have been for years,
growing fat and lazy. So go now …my helpers and set the stage for
the downfall of this sorry excuse of a country. We shall see if
there is anyone left watching… I don't think there
is…"
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As the
groups filed out of the stadium chanting their different
slogans, the creature finally noticed me there…He smiled at me
and asked what I thought of his message… I told him that I
believed freedom and self-governing to
be the way of truth, and that capitalism was the only way to a
self-fulfilling while life on this earth, trying to refute what he had
said to the groups… He just waved his hand at me … and told me
to wake up. So I did…
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January 15th::;
It 6:00
PM… I've had time to read and think about what I wrote early
this morning… The only idea, that this dream has given me, is
the need for a watchdog... a moral
observer… and I think the charge is mine…I am to be that watchdog… I am the
one who is to warn of the impending dangers… I am the one who
is supposed to recognize these subtle changes, these
incremental attacks… I am the one who is supposed to warn our
society of these transgressions… may the All Mighty help me… I
am weak … I don't know if I am up to such a mission… Will I be
able to influence people enough to slow these attacks; I know
I can't stop them… a better question is how can I even
be noticed in this world enough to have any influence on these
things… I need to think on this for a while… the answers will
come to me… they always do… Malcolm Drie's Closing
Comments:
I've heard many people over
the years say that Mont was a throw back, against all the
progress that has been made socially in the last twenty-five
years. I do not think that is an accurate statement.
Mont was never against equality for races,
genders, and I may even go as far to say sexual
orientation. What he was against was the methods
used to make the gains that were made and the cost of those
gains. The destruction of the family, the loss of freedoms and
privacy, the dumbing down of our society; these were what his
concerns were about and what he was trying to warn us about in
his music and writings. Along with the attempts to re-engineer
human nature and change the way the earth controls our
existence on it.
I know that his views were very different from the
"norm" of his generation, but to me, his concepts made the
most sense and, more than likely, quicker and better results
could have been accomplished from applying his concepts. I
guess his most disliked concept was that war is
inevitable, meant to be the world's way to control our
population and that we should profit from this natural state
of society. War brings into check all sorts of issues, fewer
people= less pollution; fewer people= less burden on our
natural resources, fewer people= generally a closer and
stronger society.
I am sure people will argue that with the weapons
capability of today, we could render the world essentially
lifeless , and they would be absolutely right. Regardless of
these weapons, we could not and would not destroy the earth
because of the strength of our own instincts to survive.
Population control is not about contraceptives or
abortion, it about living by the laws of nature. The world
creates its own balance, we are just pawns in the game but
we have come to think of ourselves as much more.
We have come to believe we are in control and we over
step our bounds. Nature will give us just enough rope, but the
time is coming when we will have to learn all over again what
our true instincts are and how to act on those instincts.
by Malcolm
Drie
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