"R(apid)evolution Begins at Home"
"(Where You'd Least Expect It)"
by Bell Day (aka Anne Marie Reiss),
Editor, "Inner City Light" L.E.S., NYC
(Vol. 1, No. 2, July-Sept 1979, page 9)
Reprinted as p. 36 of "LIFE with les(s) ego""The Ugly Amerikans are conditioned to block
approval/acceptance of most of their bodily
functions. They are robotized to feel ashamed
of nudity, sexuality and shitting. And, not
surprisingly, the more thay attempt to alienate
themselves from their animal natures, the more
dependent on technology they become....
"American revulsion of body functions was
first described by D.H. Lawrence in 1929. 'The
secret physical repulsion between people is
responsible for the perfection of American
"Plumbing"...The American townships don't mind
hideous litter of tin cans and paper and broken
rubbish. But they go crazy at the sight of
human excement.' (from preface to "Bottom Dogs"
by Edward Dahlberg)
"As stated by Abby Rockefeller in her preface
to 'End Product--The First Taboo' 'We must
create and foster technologies for dealing with
"wastes"...Human "wastes" must never be put in
water. The flush toilet must absolutely go.'
"There are minimum-technology alternatives
to flush toilet plumbing. What is needed is a
complete reversal in the thought processes of
most overurbanized 'civilized' individuals.
Shame and disgust of body functions will have
to be discarded by the Ugly Anerikans who can
L.E.A.R.N. (Let's Erase And Reprogram Now) to
take plumbingless responsibility for their
shit.
"Until such technology is developed to
replace the flush toilet and made generally
available...the 'night soil' method...can be
used. This method (in which human feces,
vegetable scraps, and reclaimed 'sand' from
tenement building rubble are composted weekly)
requires but 36 [actuALLY NINE*] square feet
per person per year of liberated land for
restoration-transformation.
"...anyone seriously interested in ecology
can make a garden from topsoil created in this
manner.
"Not only does this method reduce pollution
to zero, but also it beautifies the zenvironment.
The political implications of reclaiming and
restoring abandoned 'real estate' are far-reaching.
"[']The Garden of Eden['], [which used to be]
located on north Eldridge Street on New York's
Lower East Side in [wO]Manhattan[,] is the most
r(apid)evolutionary thing happening anywhere in
New York. Counter-revolutionary persons choose
to ignore it, ostrich-like[,] for obvious (as
well as not-so-obvious reasons). [Please visit
http:///www.geocities.com/rev-les-ego/ at 'The
Garden of Eden' (internaLINKS) for color photos
of this eARThWORK before it was vandalized
by govERRnME(A)NT in September 1985 and again
on 8 January 1986.]
"To gain a clearer knowledge of the 'night
soil' method of topsoil production, I asked
John Peter Zenger II (author of 'The Garden of
Eden' Vol. 1, No. 1, 'Inner City Light'...) to
describe the exact procedure for composting
hu[wo[man shit to create topsoil...." [Also
see Zenger's "Rubble Reclamation" on pp. 5-8
of the Horticultural Society of New York's
regional {s}edition of "Garden" magazine,
July-August 1979--reprinted as page 37 of
"LIFE with les(s) ego" (archived in the Rare
Books Division of the New York Public Library,
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, NYC).]
"'It takes Mother Nature 500 years to
produce one inch of virgin topsoil,' Zenger
said, 'On this scale, ["]The Garden of Eden["]
represents 2,000 to 3,000 years of topsoil
creation.'
"Zenger is a man with a keen political
awareness and a razor-edged 'zence' of humor.
I sense in him the Orientalernal [with
'eternal' in italic, boldface or Bf-Italic]
patience of an agr(apid)evolutionary who has
for years tried to reveal a profoundly simple
truth only to be rebuffed and scorned
time[ternity] and time[ternity] again.
"In view of the cesspool which Occidentals
glory in making of this hemisphere, perhaps
it is time[ternity] his critics stopped
laughing and started l.e.a.r.n.ing."*Behind the home of Rick Ostrander, 6135
Camelback Lane, Columbia, MD.