Video- Cynical

Simpsons- Movie “no answers”

South Park--

Jonas Brothers—disney, Christians

Mormon song

Playlist- Cynical/Antireligious

Music

Dishwalla “Tell me all your thoughts on God (Counting Blue Cars)

GreenDay -Gloria

Own Personal Jesus

Joan Osborne- What if God was one of us

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Wings of a Butterfly- HIM

Mama- MCR

Statehood and Burning Man

Jared Diamond is a damn interesting writer.  Consider this passage from his seminal novel: “…Those are the reasons why large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies.  But we are still left with the question of how small, simple societies actually evolve or amalgamate into large, complex ones.  Amalgamation, centralized conflict resolution, decision making, economic redistribution, and kleptocratic religion don’t just develop automatically through a Rousseauesque social contract…”

 

Note to self:  I agree with Diamond.  For alll the anti-statehood embodied in BM, statehood is the natural result of power struggles (“kleptocracies”) between large groups of individuals, which naturally dominate over smaller ones.  I guess the lesson from all of this is that the State simply is—it’s not anti-evolutionary or anti-people, it just is.  And a corollary for me might be that working for change of it (even if a small part) is not necessarily an exercise that is anti-instinctual or even unhealthy. Viva America!  Viva California!

Burned Impressions…

pro:

freedom from ads—go anywhere talk to anyone, no agenda, less ‘fakeness’

trust/responsibility

nakedness! without shame or even self-consciousness

 

con: showers! electricity!

unsustainable at length

unevolved hippies still living in the 60’s

Burning man notes

todo:

campsite/contacts/purpose/generator

ride

gifts

Get: 

goggles

bike

tent, pad, silverware, shower?

drugs –meth, E, shrooms/acid