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                                                May  01, 2006
                                     Additions: June 14, 2006


                                              PITA_MAHA


 (Some conceptual                           No mind works alone.
 parallels?)
                                            A mind can make choices
                                            about what minds it
                                            will work with.
   influence
    and                                     Those choices are
   isolation                                also not made alone.


       alien/familiar

       ethnic/inherited

       same/different

       escape/learning

                                   There's something
                                   to be said here
                                   about scenes...

                                                         The scene:
                                                         a nascent
                                                         culture.

                                                         Viability
                                                         yet unproven.

                                                         The lure of
                                                         the new.

                                                         The reek of
                                                         inauthenticity.


              What's the point of
              traveling to Bali from
              Berlin?


   The isolation               The alien
   allows                      environment
   focus.                      stimulates.


   You escape from             It breaks you           It gives you
   the influence that          or your old habits,     a chance to
   your cohorts are            gives you some          contribute
   all influenced by,          new material to         something of
   escape from a               work with.              your old life
   standardizing force,                                to the new
   in hopes of finding                                 setting.
   a new direction.



           difference/identity


                        The individual comes out of a scene
                        The individual exists within a scene.



                                A transition is not just
                                an individual thing,
                                but a triangular relationship
                                between an individual
                                and two cultures.

                                                     SERIAL_HIPSTER


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