Daily Dialogue — June 14, 2016

George: That was a UFO beaming back at you. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago. We seen of them flying in formation. They’ve got bases all over the world now. They’ve been coming here ever since when scientists started bouncing radar beams off the moon. And they’ve been living and working among us ever since. The government knows all about them. 
Billy: What are you talking, man?
George: You just seen one of them, didn’t you?
Billy: I saw something, but I didn’t see it working here.
George: Well, they are people, just like us from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. They don’t have no wars. They got no monetary system. They don’t have any leaders, because each man is a leader. Because of their technology they’re able to feed, clothe, house and transport themselves equally and with no effort.
Billy: You know something? You want to know what I think? I think this is a crackpot idea. That’s what I think. How about that? Think it’s a crackpot idea. If they’re so smart, why don’t they reveal themselves and get it over with?
George: Why don’t they reveal themselves is because if they did it’d cause a general panic. Now, we still have leaders upon whom we rely to release this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venusians have contacted people at all walks of life… all walks of life… It would be a devastating blow to our antiquated systems. Now Venusians are meeting with people in all walks of life in an advisory capacity. For once, man will have a godlike control over his own destiny. He’ll have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all.

A long silence.

Wyatt: How’s your joint, George?
George: I believe it went out.

— Easy Rider (1967), written by Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper & Terry Southern

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Stoned.

Trivia: During Jack Nicholson’s “UFO” speech, Dennis Hopper was intent on getting him very stoned on marijuana. The laughing that eventually broke up his speech was not planned, and when Nicholson repeats the line “it . . . it . . . would be devastating . . . “ it was the next take.

Dialogue On Dialogue: George (Jack Nicholson) gets stoned for the very first time and offers up a whopper of a story about UFOs and an alien invasion.

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