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And I'm not talking about outsiders coming in, eff that: I wanna see what people who *live* in these places would do with these buildings. Real subculture and counterculture is grass roots, it withers under established homogeneity of aesthetics and values.

Let there be a new weirdness, many new weirdnesses, across these United States, in all those shuttered, abandoned buildings that capitalism has used up and discarded.

These spaces can, and should be reclaimed for any number of uses, but I can't help but feel like the creation of weirdness, of art, of culture, should be an easy one to get started on. I don't even *like* a lot of the look and feel of Burning Man, but can you imagine what enough bold, creative weirdos could do to an empty abandoned Walmart or movie theater in the middle of nowhere?

Every year in the US, a whole buttcrapload of people go out to the desert, build a giant weird bohemian art city (with a large contingent of ultra-rich silicon valley people also present for kulture kred), then they (to the best of their ability) clean up, leave, and go back to normal (for some definition thereof) life

Its 2018. Like it or not, all over the country, massive areas of enclosed pseduo-public space once devoted to retail commerce are emptying out, never to open again.

Benevolence and the Trickster: The Figures of the Moon and the Gargamel in Early Mastodonian Mythology

Presented as part of the requirements for a Master of Arts in Religious Studies at Tootledge University

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