a machine gun is just a symbol of automated american death, something people are into no matter which side of the trigger they're on.  a good symbol 

if you want to control and be controlled.  which is the dominant paradigm of social relations at this time.  in 1970 jimi hendrix was in the right place and 

the right time with the right song and the right solo.  and you can tell from his facial expressions that he's on heroin, and that's what america was getting on 

after the assassinations and the success of cointelpro and operation chaos (cia domestic).  i guess the people at that time didn't really want to be free, or 

maybe they were just too scared of change, or they couldn't stop the control mechanisms within themselves.  family, church, school, job, government, 

military, intelligence aren't things outside ourselves.  they're just projections of ourselves, externalizations which we then blame for our individual and societal 

problems.  so everybody can be free.  you can be free if you can make it as a free individual.  and as malcolm x said, "the price of freedom is death".  for 

everybody else, let's just party on some meth and crack and watch movies of people killing each other with machine guns.