![1. Wearing a snake turban.
2. Writing an email: “Not much going on here. Working for Asymptote again. Haven’t written anything in a billion years. Rae’s good. I think she’s great. I have organic bananas. I’ve been reading some of Sam Shepard’s short stories as well. What a handsome dude / great writer. I’m a bit weirded out by some of the “99%” messages being put up on the internet since they all seem to be by people who want the “American dream” (ie to be middle class or upper middle class [the 99th percentile ends at 550k/year anyway]) and that’s what they’re really whining about. But I have a hard time sympathizing about that. What we need to do is try to get it to be socially acceptable to be poor(er), since fuuuuuuck we’re still pretty rich compared to a lot of the rest of the world. Even 15k a year is profoundly wealthy compared to the Indonesian maid I lived with in Singapore ($1800/year salary). Anyway. American dollars are just paper with numbers printed on it. I guess I want a message that has more imagination. If wages are stagnating…well, isn’t it powerful if we start caring about things other than wages? If we say we aren’t going to be wage slaves and contract with our neighborhoods instead? If a lot of people stop caring about dough then doesn’t that make someone or something with a billion dollars of it seem kind of ridiculous?”
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1. Wearing a snake turban.
2. Writing an email: “Not much going on here. Working for Asymptote again. Haven’t written anything in a billion years. Rae’s good. I think she’s great. I have organic bananas. I’ve been reading some of Sam Shepard’s short stories as well. What a handsome dude / great writer. I’m a bit weirded out by some of the “99%” messages being put up on the internet since they all seem to be by people who want the “American dream” (ie to be middle class or upper middle class [the 99th percentile ends at 550k/year anyway]) and that’s what they’re really whining about. But I have a hard time sympathizing about that. What we need to do is try to get it to be socially acceptable to be poor(er), since fuuuuuuck we’re still pretty rich compared to a lot of the rest of the world. Even 15k a year is profoundly wealthy compared to the Indonesian maid I lived with in Singapore ($1800/year salary). Anyway. American dollars are just paper with numbers printed on it. I guess I want a message that has more imagination. If wages are stagnating…well, isn’t it powerful if we start caring about things other than wages? If we say we aren’t going to be wage slaves and contract with our neighborhoods instead? If a lot of people stop caring about dough then doesn’t that make someone or something with a billion dollars of it seem kind of ridiculous?”
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