May 8, 1970, Jim Morrison receives a request for maintenance of Canadian radio C.B.C. the idea of a literary discussion liked from the start Morrison. This maintenance took place on May 27, 1970. It never yet had been published.

Jim, in the first towards your collection of poems, one reads: "Looks at what you adore" What the young people adore, today? Which are their hopes?

Jim Morrison : I cannot speak on their behalf, but I would bet that they are the same things that they always celebrated: joy in life, the discovery of oneself, freedom, this kind of tricks.

When I was with the college, the kind of revolt which one sees today was completely unknown. At the time, adolescent being, young, that were nothing the whole; we were in the limbs. These five last years, the young people became incredibly conscious of the capacity and the influence which they have as a group. It is amazing!

The reference marks of patriotism changed. This country had formerly a patriotic enthusiasm; the flag was followed. All that changed much.

Jim Morrison : The young people of this country feel always American, but their patriotism changed. They dream of America different from that from the past, but I believe that they are considered always American. Personally, I am identified with this term. I do not know if it is because I was endoctriné so a long time, but I feel American.

It is another patriotism, therefore?

Jim Morrison : This country is very young, it passed by many changes and that will continue, but with the idea according to which America would dominate the world is losing ground. People whom I know satisfy to belong to a country among the other nations; they do not want any more to impose their way of life on the others.

The company apparently always needs to adore of the heroes. Are there still young people in the search of hero? Which kind of hero?

Jim Morrison : The war of Viêt-nam did not generate any hero. I believe that the new heroes will be political militants. In the Twenties, they was the sportsmen; in the Thirties and Forties, stars of cinema and aces of the Second World war; then the musicians became the new heroes. I believe that the next heroes will be a little more intellectual: militants political, scientific, perhaps, or expert in data processing, of people like that: those which include/understand, which has a intellectual comprehension in the way in which the things function, whose functions the modern society. Here are our next hero.

You thus regard the movement hippie as a reaction to modernization?

Jim Morrison : Absolutely! A reaction of the type dionysiaque, but very naive and sterile. The way of life hippie is really a phenomenon middle-class man. It could exist only in our type of company where there are such an abundance of goods, products and leisures. The generations which preceded us were to live with the world wars and the economic crises, and during the ten or fifteen years, there was, in this country, enough of time and money to carry out an excessive life, provocante, which had not been conceivable front.

As much, Woodstock highly impressed me, but I wonder what that was useful. With what according to you?

Jim Morrison : I was not there. I saw film and I spoke to people who took part in it; I thus had only one account of second or third hand of the event. As I was not there, I cannot really allow myself to comment on or judge, but at the beginning, that burst me, especially the incredible performance of the artists. They were marvellous. As for the public, it returned to me very sad. These young well nourished people lost themselves in their limbs.

Are Jim, which your pleasures in the life?

Jim Morrison : Mainly art. My great pleasure, it is to try to give form to reality, and I believe that that was always the case. The music is a great relaxation and a great joy for me, and I would like one day to write something of a little significant. It is my ambition: to write something of valid.

What would be this book? A work of philosophy?

Jim Morrison : Philosophy does not interest me any more as much as front. The day when I understood that nobody in the world knew some more on what did without only no matter whom other, I lost any interest for philosophy like study of the ideas. In my opinion, poetry is supreme art, insofar as what defines us as human beings, the language.

One cannot speak about the life, today, without speaking about sexuality. It there be a supposedly new morality of which I me wonder always it that it be.

Jim Morrison : That exists, however. When I was with the college, or even with the FAC - what is not very old -, sexuality was always in full era victorienne. It was taboo. If you think that a girl did it, that belonged to the discussion of cloakrooms of gym. New the kids, good... but you know, the sex will remain always a mystery, there will be always phobias and of funny of tricks... But they are freer.

The change arrived very quickly insofar as America were always a puritan country.

Jim Morrison : The repression of sexual energy always constituted the best method of control of the totalitarian systems. If everyone were free in its sexual activities, how much would there be which would arise at work? Let us look at the things opposite: if one arrived the first on the Moon, it is in base on the repression of sexual energy. One channeled this energy to launch a machine on the Moon, instead of making use of it naturally.

If one removed any sexual repression in the company, that would it arrive?

Jim Morrison : Any work would cease immediately.

And quid of the role of the man and the woman in the modern society?

Jim Morrison : When the History is looked at, one has the impression that it is cyclic. Many periods ago of the History where the women controlled the main part of the vital activities: the companies matriarcales, you know. It is ridiculous of speaking about that in also simple terms, but I believe that each day the influence of the women is more smelled. There is no more border to conquer, and drives out it and fishes it are not more at the base of our survival: the life thus tends to be feminized more and more.

Is that appropriate to you?

Jim Morrison : Of course.

Why?

Jim Morrison : I believe that the women are better than the men. They have right ideas. They seem more at ease to accept the life and to live it simply.

You studied the cinema with UCLA, and you wrote one day: "the cinema is made by the men to comfort the men" Explain you.

Jim Morrison : Who carries out films? Who projects them? In a certain way, it is a male desire of domination of the life, in opposition with the simple acceptance of the life.

Jim, it has worms in your last collection of poems (The Lords and the New Creatures) which says: "the schize of the men as actors and witnesses constitutes the major event of our time" It is undeniable, but I wonder whether it were not always the case in company?

Jim Morrison : Certainly, but with the media, this phenomenon became more immediately apparent. What interested me more, in this book, it is that the majority of people feel completely empty and impotent in the control of their own destiny, or in that of the human life. I find that very sad. One would need that more people engage, rather than to delegate so many capacities to some individuals. The average citizen, in so far as that wants to say something, should belong to the company in a way or another. Everyone has the feeling which the events have place without one being able there nothing to make, without one being informed even of it. It is one of the tragedies of today. I suppose that that always occurred like that, but today, it became obvious. One makes decisions for us, in whom one does not have a word to say. It is of that that I tried to speak.

One needs courage to live according to its own style.

Jim Morrison : Style in fact part; it is very significant, but it on what I deplore, it is on the fact that so many people are satisfied to live a life if calms, so ordered, when such an amount of of... I am not sure so much word... of obvious injustices take place. They make as if they were unaware of them, or as if they were foutaient some, without never engaging. It is sad.

I came you ask for your solutions.

Jim Morrison : Listen, it is a little too early in the morning for solutions. It is necessary, for each event, to see how much there are angles of attack, rather than to vote yes or not on a precise problem. It is necessary to see the universe like something of complex, because it is what it is...

You wrote: Isn't the witness is a dying animal "in contradiction with what you have just said?

Jim Morrison : Not, it is on this subject of this schize between actors and public. For me, it is incredibly sad that a heap of human beings remains sitted to look at something. The spectacle of million and million people sitting in movie theaters or in front of their tele every evening, looking at a reproduction of second or third hand of reality, whereas the true world is there, in their show, or just outside, in the street... I believe that it is the best machine to be hypnotized, to plunge people in a state of sleepwalking.

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