Alejandro Jodorowsky: Look, whenever someone does something new, people have to compare it with things they already know.
Margaret Mead: Magazines were just filled with attacks on the younger generation.
Jodorowsky: Ways into other universes, but with different modalities.
Mead: It's being fed by European notions.
Jodorowsky: And usually carried out by people who are practically thieves.
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Mead: Americans are particularly likely to have this point of view because we're made up of people who left other countries because they thought America was going to be better.
Jodorowsky: But all that interested me in the same way Japanese or Chinese literature interested me.
Mead: That's something people neglect a good deal of the time.
Jodorowsky: We aren’t telepathic yet. When we are, we won’t be translated.
Mead: We're intoxicated and preoccupied by a whole series of points that evade the major point and that is the survival of the human race. And the more uncomfortable we make the women, the more moral we feel we are.
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Jodorowsky: The government even sent me an official diploma and a medal.
Mead: All that's disappeared today and now we're all in one boat.
Jodorowsky: So what we should do is to seek out and live in the most beautiful illusion.
Mead: Is it possible in a society as big and complex as this to have much sense of individual responsibility anymore?
Jodorowsky: As far as I’m concerned that’s a naive question. Because in this society no one is free.