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So, LJ's now under new ownership. We'll see how this affects us in the time to come.

This is an early-morning needs-sleep post. No Prozac for me, thanks.

In fact, could we cut down on the Self-fulfilling prophecies, too? They're starting to piss me off.

And today was a fairly interesting day, but tomorrow I have work, starting at 8 A.M. So I'm going to bed now.

So tonight...

...was interesting. Things are falling into place, slowly enough, even though I'm probably going to be running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the next week or two. I had a dayshift of work, and that was interesting by itself. Then strange things tonight and stranger things, perhaps, tomorrow. After all, a day where you find someone laying out our options in case aliens invade has to count high on the weird factor. Then again, smoking bottles might up it a bit. Then, that which might be an interesting skill - how to sidestep absolute truth and still make things useful.

Any volunteers? Or rather, voluntaryists? It's only about making a society where people are utopically aligned with each other, and there is no State acting on us... and all accomplished through entirely nonviolent means. It'll take a while, that's for sure, if this is to succeed.

So, what have you vandalized today? Is it merely physical, or mental, or emotional?

It's the curse of being able to see both sides of the mirror. The American Culture class is going to show us what the subcultures thought and felt, and how they were crushed, and we'd be idiots not to see the same thing happenign in our society, albeit at a much faster pace. The question we have is not trying to find something to define us, but figuring out how it's going to stay far enough ahead of the machine to be something uniquely defining, and not just a "fad."

Ay, there's the rub. Hippies and Beats and Punks will get eaten by the mainstream too quickly now to flourish as a counterculture. So how do you nest yourself inside long enough to gain strength to survive and fight off the mainstream long enough?