“But these spaces work because individuals Choose to be there. They aren't forced into it so they are actually capable of taking that responsiblity - and if they're not, they usually don't come back or get blacklisted like my ex-roommate and the local rave scene. It doens't hurt to create these spaces in such a way that in cases of raves that you have to break at least one or two laws just to participate - but using prohbition as the classic example, if your entire population gets used to breaking one or two laws regularaly you have problems.â€
Again the muslim women chose to live in a society where they were constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religious expression -- they were given freedom to choose within their country and acting within their rights, just like the kids within the raver communities who follow the rules -- the question is do the other raver kids get together and change the rules on some of the members to blacklist them?
So you should be able to have your dance parties and do your drugs -- (this is good for the individual? This is good for artists? because lord knows studies that the government have published have never been able to show someone getting hurt by either one of those, I mean they are completely safe and afterall ultimately the issue here was that at times freedom should be secondary to safety -- I mean recently I didn't just sit in a class where the government filled the heads of children with ideas about date rape drugs that can get placed in their drinks at these illegal parties -- no what you're talking about is not a safety issue, but the burka is . . . to that I ask, which times exactly are the best, when is it best for the government to take more control of your rights then they had to begin with? because they can usually drum up some safety issue, puffy coats and baggy pants = weapons, raves = the date rape drugs, etc. i could go on, you should see what they did to pot, you probably have) but muslim women should not be able to wear their burkas?
“Some places, it works better than others; these are very small places who have much more humane culture. I was watching this show on the travel channel the other night with J where it's like one of those reality shows - like think The Real World - but it's following tribal peoples: they were more HUMAN than people in the civilized western world. They went to work for some part of the day - but the amount of actual culture and thought put into daily life was amazing. I have professors that consider themselves very culturally refined because maybe three or four times a year they go to the ballet or a theather: but a cultural activity isn't a part of their daily life. They don't even necessarily eat dinner as a cultural practice - they just are doing what must be done in order to sustain life to be alive. Whereas the tribal society everything has so much thought put into it. If the theory that we are human because we are self-aware or because we are concious (sp?) then they are much more human than most civilized people who can manage to go at least a day without really thinking about anything.â€
Don't worry about spelling -- I know, these are the kinds of people who make me roll my eyes. I'm like whatever. Yeah, I know I've had similar conversations about the native american cultures -- they were amazing, so advanced. So smart! Have you ever been to St. Augustine, Florida? There is this supper cheesed out “Fountain of Youth†museum -- it is all about Ponce de Leon and you get to drink this nasty sulfur water, it's a real treat -- but the amazing thing is what they explain about the Arawack (sp
?)people -- My god they were wonderful they seemed to have figured out natural selection and were using it to breed themselves into healthier and healthier people, this is why Ponce thought there was a fountain of youth, he was a dumbass!if only the people here had listened to them and not been so ignorant and uppity. I feel the same way about a lot of teachers with their students. This is why I listen to kids, a lot of them at thirteen are still closer to self-awareness than adults (they haven't learned how to lie to themselves yet -- they are so honest, they don't have to keep it real, they are real)
I didn't know Stan Lee was responsible for that quote. I don't like the word power as much as the word freedom I guess power and freedom are similar, there are different types of power, and self-impowerment is about freedom I guess. That's cool. I will google it and see so I can reference it *properly* now. Since it is attributed to a graphic artists, that's really cooler; it'd have worked out cooler if Hokusai, the dude that started the manga, had said it -- my kids read his story and love manga -- well some of them.
