It is not enough to keep Austin weird. The movement is doomed to fail, for it is not a movement at all, but rather a defensive plea. Without momentum, it cannot even hope to stay in place. To keep Austin weird, we must Make Austin Weirder, and this should be our rallying cry.
Weird the World.
To accomplish this, the hippies, environmentalists, anarchists, etc. must not be content to sit in their own safe havens. No, we must invade the suburbs. We must steal the homes and stomping ground from beneath our enemies' feet. For, to be sure, they are our enemies; if it is a cultural war, then we must take it on the offensive.
Offensive is the key word. We must be offensive, more and more, and in such a way that we cannot be ignored or written off. We must be offensive underfoot. We must be "in your face" in their faces. Their homes must become the battleground, for thus far, it is always the beautiful places which are the battle grounds, and so the beautiful places which are lost. It is not enough to "save the environment" we must actively spread the right kind of environment. Just as in Detroit, the blighted landscape of sprawl must be reclaimed for something better--why wait until we are forced to by circumstances? Far better to do it voluntarily and before the problem is worsened.
So too in Austin, and everywhere else, we must begin reclaiming the land from the intrusive asphalt.
Prime Ox
No More Zombies
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Again, this is a post cited for why I am being asked not to return to Regina Mater.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should have been more specific; when I said steal, while I know you won't believe me, the idea was actually in a cultural sense. You buy up property, you live in your neighborhood, you change the way people view the world. You change the world. But the odd thinkers tend to just retreat. That I used "revolutionary" rhetoric was intentional; this was my first post and I wanted some fireworks.
You could use the same argument to reverse so called 'white flight', if you chose to view the world in that way. How would you take the neighborhoods back? By moving into them.
Why do you think Machiavelli suggested that colonization was more effective than occupation? This is the same principal.