Dear Marion,

Thank you for your letter, and for your invitation
to sound off my political fantasies. It is essential,
I believe, that thoughts and actions grow organically
from the circumstances that precipitate them. Ideas
launched in a vacuum are likely to fall far off the mark.
I will nonetheless accept your invitation, challenge,
temptation.

Unilateral disarmament. Military only for defense, as in post WWII
Germany. Abolition of hunting and fishing for "sport." Food and shelter
without charge for all, modelled on universal public school education.
Transformation of prisons into educational institutions, i.e. schools
that foster and create humanity rather than extinguish and destroy it.
Only public financing of political campaigns. Transformation of political
"advertising" into provision only of information modelled on FDA approved
package inserts for drugs. Rescinding personal civil rights to profit
and non-profit corporations. Making stock-holders and bond-holders 
liable for injuries caused by the enterprises from which they profit.
Removing social and financial support for the extension of non-sentient
(vegetable) existence. Fostering a culture that accepts illness and
death as integral to life. Limiting population growth by all feasible
voluntary means.  Curtailing economies predicated on perpetual growth.   

More Mozart.

More later.

Jochen