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MIRROR_UNMIRED_OFF_THE_WALL

                                             November 25, 2006
Contention:

I am not moving
around all that
much.

The left has been
getting closer to me.

  And the right has ran off over
  that strange cliff out that way...


Well okay, maybe I've taken a few steps
beyond the libertarians...

That would be hard to avoid,
because they're standing still.           they're stuck --
                                          in the mud?

                                              Mired.

Exercise:

Flip through Theodore Roszak's
"Sources" (1972) and see if I
still think it's really funny.

   Uh oh.  No I don't!

   The first section
   is still rather
   embarassing
   (Carlos Castenda??!)

   But later sections include
   Paul Goodman, Micahel McClure, Gary Snyder,
   Murray Bookchin, E.F. Schumacher...

     These excerpts may be wrong, but they
     no longer strike me as ridiculous.

       Have I completely gone
       over to the other side?

            Well no, the subtitle
            is still quite the hoot:

               "An Anthology of Contemporary Materials
               Useful for Preserving Personal Sanity
               While Braving the Great Technological
               Wilderness"



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