"I entertained myself with the notion that this was what would happen if the Big One hit. Maybe if the Big One hits, I told myself, the world's few remaining survivors will convene in the wastelands in the aftermath, giving rise to a bevy of semiutopian, hedonistic shantytowns characterized by outrageous celebration, massively creative explosions of self-expression, a bartering economy, and a nearly obsessive preoccupation with sex, fire, art, and the finite nature of existence. Maybe the world's new leader will be a nonleading leader, an antiauthoritarian bohemian with a penchant for innovative social theory. Maybe Burning Man is a demonstration of how human beings might handle things in the event that we finally succeed at fucking things up for good, which, as far as I can tell, could happen any day now.
Or maybe not."
-Attention. Deficit. Disorder.
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