'In Europe the Underground, whilst connected with American expatriate groups, reflected regional differences in terms of interpretation, although the fundamental purpose was identical: the current technological/commercial/industrial/rational civilization is suicidal, it must be destroyed; a new culture, based on total freedom, extended sensibility, and spirituality of some kind re-established in the place of politics must be developed at breakneck pace and spread among the people; human communication must be freed of the limitations of language; people must be induced to identify with humanity rather than with class or nation; fear for security must be shifted from the centre of human affairs and aspiration towards human fulfilment in terms of vitality, ecstasy, and delight be put in its place: thus the wish to live must be rekindled in the species and the drift to suicide redirected.'
Jeff Nuttall, Bomb Culture, 1967