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"In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered."
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Mark Pesce"Doesnt it seem as though the thrills gone out of it? Somehow Burning Man now feels like what Christmas becomes in your grown-up years: a lot of spending, a brief party, and twelve months of fond reminiscences."
Mark D. Pesce is an American-Australian author, researcher, engineer, futurist and teacher.
"In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered."
"Basically, to sum up: Were a generation of anarchists, and we just havent gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We havent been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does."
"I very much consider the Internet a garden, and Im a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants."
"I have an axe to grind. I have a fight to pick. I have a hair across my ass. And I want to share."
"I skipped Burning Man this year and realized something. It’s become a cult. And it’s about time we all woke up and recognized it."
"We all know the extent of the hypocrisy which surrounds the War on Drugs; that it is, at essence, a Class War, or, if you will, a Race War, which criminalizes the undesirable elements of society – precisely the rationale behind the Marijuana Tax Act, which provided the legal ammunition to expel with those pesky Mexican immigrants in Texas and California back in the 1930s."