I'm after a different sort of weirdness than what the good doctor himself seemed to chase, but as I may or may not have laid on just a little too
thick, what I'm basically up to here is more or less trying to follow Hunter S. Thompson's lead.
This is simply because the things I've come to consider normal are all incredibly bad for me. To hell with my flaming liberalism and all of the
outcomes I've argued for. Keep the change. It costs more to carry around than its even worth Mr. President, and I would know because I was already
carrying it when nobody thought you had a prayer.
At this point, I don't think politics or violence is going to get us out of the mess that we let them make for us. It's important to realize, while
some of us are talking about shooting legislators, that we are guilty by association- regardless of what animal or beverage you've sworn fealty
to.
The only way I think we'll really "restore sanity", as opposed to restoring politics as usual for exactly one year until the next campaign begins,
is to start by change the only thing we all still have regardless of how bad they hit us- our own lives. They do control us, but we're predictable.
So weirdness just might be the answer- not just for the sake of weirdness mind you- I'm really not all that interested in the psychedelic side of it.
I just want to do the things that make sense to me instead of the things that make sense to them, and I hope that puts me in good company.
I think we actually can confuse or at least outrun the owners of this country because we have them badly outnumbered, and each one of us can share and
realize ideas faster than ever before with new technology that right now, the poor seem to understand better than the rich. If we get to work on our
own problems, on our own terms, at the same time, they can't really stop us and we hold our destiny- no money, no politics, no signs, no shouting,
and for the love of god NO GUNPLAY. Just people physically exercising power without asking permission.
I'm not here to organize you though, or mobilize you, or achieve any specific outcome. The project is to study the more unorthodox movements in
society and try to understand what allows them to be weird and make waves, and make it available for whatever purpose people can find for it.
www.whysanity.net...
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right. That we were winning. And that I think was the handle. That sense of
inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense. We didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had
all the momentum. We were riding the crest, of a high and beautiful wave.
I'd really like to see that. Which I probably won't, because I just don't think the tide is right. But what the hell am I supposed to do instead?