Microdoctrine

The Microdoctrine is a series of tenets written in the late 70's by Richard Kemp and released at the time to a journalist at the Cambrian News. It was recently mentioned in the popular BBC podcast Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot, 6. The Microdoctrine.

The document was written as a statement to the UK judiciary as a plea to the motive behind Richard Kemps manufacture of psychedelics. The gist of Kemp’s defence was that LSD was a catalyst for social change, the motive was the ideal not the money. Unfortunately the document is lost however a short except remains, detailed below.

Excerpt

“Before too long our planet will be facing untold challenges. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but certainly in the ones of those who come directly after us. The earth does not have inexhaustible resources and we are living on its capital, not its income. We consume and consume and consume, and bear no thoughts for what we’re doing for the path it’s putting us on. Temperatures will soar, see levels will rise, animals will perish, natural resources will evaporate before our eyes – before we have a chance to come up with a Plan B.

We will no longer be able to live off the land because the land will no longer want us. And that, that is when things will get really ugly. People will starve, be dispossessed of the places they called home. And we’ll begin to fight over the last barrel of oil, the last drop of water, the last ear of corn. Wars will be waged, bombs will be dropped, the world will become about the haves and the have nots. And eventually the rift between the ultra-rich and the ultra-poor will become unassailable because the world will have been looking the wrong way.

Politicians, businessmen, moguls – they will step on the throats of their own people to save their billions while the earth is crumbling apart beneath their feet. Then you’ll get anarchy , the word you like to band about like it’s a walk in the park. Then you’ll see what real anarchy is like. We need a revolution in people’s minds. We need a spark to put the world on a road to survival. We are living on the worlds capital, not the world’s income. And when the capital runs out I dread to think what will happen next.”