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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
Salvador Dali

it is just a beautiful place where you can see the excess that is possible when people bring together everything they can find that blinks

it is just a beautiful place where you can see the excess that is possible when people bring together everything they can find that blinks
Lindsey commenting on “Why I Will Never Go To Burning Man.” | elephant journal

Because it combines camping (which I hate) with hot temperatures (which I hate) with raves (which I hate) with what sounds like atrocious installation art (which I hate) … with 40,000 people who like all these things so much that they’d go to Nevada for them. It’s like everything I hate, only without water.

Because it combines camping (which I hate) with hot temperatures (which I hate) with raves (which I hate) with what sounds like atrocious installation art (which I hate) … with 40,000 people who like all these things so much that they’d go to Nevada for them. It’s like everything I hate, only without water.
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Is it futile to vote Democratic? Seriously, it is obvious now that your vote will deliver the same policy outcomes should you choose Democratic or Republican – but by voting Republican (at least on a national level), you also get the satisfaction of being on the winning team.

Is it futile to vote Democratic? Seriously, it is obvious now that your vote will deliver the same policy outcomes should you choose Democratic or Republican – but by voting Republican (at least on a national level), you also get the satisfaction of being on the winning team.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists in putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists in putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse

And when everybody’s tits (and butts and cocks – – – ok, maybe not too many cocks!) are there for everyone to see – well, then we start to get past obsessing on the unseen, and ironically, start to see people for who they are – not what they look like, or what they do. Its the dichotomy of living in our mixed message society that is simultaneously puritanical on the one hand – and exploitative of eroticism on the other – that creates so much dysfunction, confusion, angst and pain in people.

And when everybody’s tits (and butts and cocks – – – ok, maybe not too many cocks!) are there for everyone to see – well, then we start to get past obsessing on the unseen, and ironically, start to see people for who they are – not what they look like, or what they do. Its the dichotomy of living in our mixed message society that is simultaneously puritanical on the one hand – and exploitative of eroticism on the other – that creates so much dysfunction, confusion, angst and pain in people.
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