On 1/14/14 11:29 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 1/14/14, 11:15 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
Abuse the situation? Fade out? Norms are being asserted here.
Norms are being acknowledged and recognized collectively, not
asserted, in this case. I think it is a crucial difference.
I've been at events at churches where the organizers believe that too.
If I were looking for an authoritarian, top-down, self-righteous place
to observe norms being asserted, A Church would seem to be a good place
to start. City Hall, Planning and Zoning, etc. seem like another good
one. Corporate America (more likely Transnational), Acedemia,
Federally funded Institutions... hmmm... other good places...
A local park designed, built and maintained by those who use it? That is
a bit further on down my list for places to look for it.
Someone has power, someone doesn't.
Yes, the people who inhabit the space have the power. The homeless have
the power to disrupt and make miserable the more well heeled users as do
the teens who don't live there but stop in after school to smoke
substances and fart around. The more directly invested (through lease
or mortgage obligations) folks have their homes as a base of operations
if they were to launch an assault on the "nomads", and the "jackbooted
thugs" hired by the city probably believe that they work for the
"permanent squatters" rather than the "nomads".
In a year I didn't see any significant abuses of any of these kinds of
power. But then, the drug tests at LBL were designed to make sure
everyone *was* using... not vice-versa. I opted out by wearing a pair
of rose-colored kaleidoscopes strapped over my eyes instead, I guess I
forgot to take them off. Might have been why I had to leave LANL within
2 years of returning... too much Murky Post Nanosian Dismality.
- Pollyanna
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