For years we watched movie after movie that demonstrated the white man’s benevolence. Jimmy Stewart, the epitome of fairness, puts his arm around Cochise and tells how the Indians and the whites can live in peace if only both sides will be reasonable, responsible and rational (the three R’s imperialists always teach the “natives”). “You will find good grazing land on the other side of the mountain,” drawls the public relations man. “Take your people and go in peace.” Cochise as well as millions of youngsters in the balcony of learning, were being dealt off the bottom of the deck. The Indians should have offed Jimmy Stewart in every picture and we should have cheered ourselves hoarse.

– Abbie Hoffman, Steal this Book, 1971

It’s so very tempting / Will biologists resist? / When he becomes the creator? / Will he let us exist?

– X-Ray Spex, “Genetic Engineering,” 1978

Outro: T-Square – “Travelers”