New Cities/New Soviets

October 08, 2003

Exclusion is a poison

Exclusion seeks to control the environment by keeping it out. This is the same idiocy as trying to build a home as a sealed box. One environment for the outside, a separate one for the inside. There can never be enough activity inside, it will always become unliveable.

So I want to be outside. As pinky paine says: "the outside is the inside when it comes to the prolecats."



Rainy at the intersection

The environment at the cart is not coming under my control. On the contrary, it goes more and more out of my control every week. This is what I love about it. On Fri., a guy who was wild and drunk on Jagermeister took a break from chowing down on chicken BBQ sandwiches to engage a group of 15- and 16-year-old black kids in a rap battle. On Sat., two photographers set up next to the cart with a bunch of their friends, taking polaroid portraits of the people in the street and giving them away. I am there, I am cooking, and then, because activity attracts activity, people are coming over, and they are eating and talking, and the street is going mad and we are all doing something together.

This is something that cannot happen a sealed box. No! We want what we are doing to spread and attract as many people as possible, and include them, and add their worlds to our own, their streets to our own, their abilities to our own. Who know where it can go?

Posted by Sam at October 8, 2003 08:35 AM

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