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"Why Tribe?", front cover + 1pp. in INTERNATIONAL TIMES #28 (London: April 5, 1968).
Newspaper format. 16pp. The first UK appearance of this prose piece, originally written for the first issue of the Japanese counterculture newspaper Buzuku (trans. Tribe) in 1967. Unlike Marshall McLuhan's warnings about the re-tribalisation of modern technological society, Snyder's view was more optimistic, arguing that "Nationalism, warfare, present-day heavy Industry and Consumership are already out-dated and useless…. The 'Revolution' has ceased to be an ideological concern. Instead, people are trying it out right now - communism in small communities, new social organizations."
Snyder attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon twenty years before Steve Jobs (both studied under the same Blake scholar, Buddhist, and calligrapher, Professor Lloyd Reynolds) and later became a devotee of the Apple Macintosh (his poem, "Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh", reflects his vision of it as the embodiment of Stewart Brand's notion of 'humane' technology).
Also: centrespread reprint of Thad and Rita Ashby's article, "The Yoga of Sex and the Magic Mushroom" (from the November 1967 issue of The Oracle of Southern California); macrobiotic food; John Peel's Perfumed Garden; and ads. for Sarah Buadpiece and Debbie Torrens's Covent Garden boutique (To Jump Like Alice), magazines Oz and Unit, and Middle Earth (Tim Buckley, Soft Machine).
Short tear to upper right corner of last two pages, o/w Very Good plus (unfolded).
