Liberal democracy is a great thing. You can say what you want, act how you want, are protected by the state and when necessary are provided for by the state. One of the evils it has produced is hippy culture. Every idea produces some reactionary group, which is basically formulated out of the positive points of the political ideas, and taken a step to far. Hippies, take the idea of social democracy a marathon to far.

Social and liberal democracy is probally one of the least selfish and all encompasing ideas out there. You are expected to work hard and play hard, pay your taxes, and in return the money is usually spent for the betterment of the worse of classes in society, through free education, health care, a police force to ensure the streets are safe, well cared for roads etc. Hippies' ideas of social equality is to dismantle this well thought and and productive system, so the rich no longer pay taxes, the poor no longer have free access to health care, no police to make sure the streets are safe (and it's substanially the working classes rather than the upper ones who are the victims of crime).

Ideas of peace and unity are all too well in a world were everyone thinks the same way... but I'm afraid the organizers of Glastonbury don't think the same way as the organizers of concentration camps in North Korea, or the organizers of public beheadings in Saudi Arabia. And as long as people in the world who believe in either revolutionary political ideas or dogmatic theocratic ones, then the need for an army from Western nations continues. In fact, it's probally thanks to the British, French and American military superiority and influence in the UN that they're not living in a Gulag, being fed a bowl of rice a day, working a 15 hour shift in a field and being put against the wall and shot. Like it or lump it, George W Bush cares more about your right to live the way you do and say what you say than the juntas in North Korea or Syria.

And as for drugs, I'm sure most people who have read this have tried some form of soft drugs... but we quite rightly don't believe it to be a way of life or a constructive way to Saturday afternoon. There is a lot of injustices in the world, genocide in Darfur, suppression of democracy in Burma and Nickelback number 2 in the charts, when my band couldn't get a record deal, but these terrible evils will not be solved by taking so much acid you imagine fairies are cooking you dinner, nor will they.

The best way you can help the world is to put down the bong, trade in your VW camper van, don't believe in any form of religion and especially crazy Indian ones, work hard, pay taxes, give to charity, look after those in your community, start a pressure group, because no ammount of ganja you smoke is going to help your buddist monk friends in Tibet.