We Are Creating A World Where Anyone,

I'm Still Strongly Opposed To Antismoking Laws, Strongly Opposed To Any Law That Regulates Personal Behavior.

I Have A Feeling Virtual Reality Will Further Expose The Conceit That 'reality' Is A Fact. It Will Provide Another Reminder Of The Seamless Continuity Between The World Outside And The World Within, Delivering Another Major Hit To The Old Fraud Of Objectivity. 'real,' As Kevin Kelly Put It, 'is Going To Be One Of The Most Relative Words We'll Have.'

We Cannot Separate The Air That Chokes From The Air Upon Which Wings Beat.

If Someone Like Karl Rove Had Wanted To Neutralize The Most Creative, Intelligent, And Passionate Members Of His Opposition, He'd Have A Hard Time Coming Up With A Better Tool Than Burning Man. Exile Them To The Wilderness, Give Them A Culture In Which Alpha Status Requires Months Of Focus And Resource-consumptive Preparation, Provide Them With Metric Tons Of Psychotropic Confusicants, And Then... Ignore Them. It's A Pretty Safe Bet That They Won't Be Out Registering Voters, Or Doing Anything That Might Actually Threaten Electoral Change, When They Have An Art Car To Build.

Art Is A Service, Not A Product. Created Beauty Is A Relationship, And A Relationship With The Holy At That. Reducing Such Work To 'content' Is Like Praying In Swear Words. End Of Sermon. Back To Business.