Hi John,
Where are you located exactly? I'm interested in the intrusions you talk
about. One of the reasons I became disillusioned with Baudrillard had to
do with his take on the American wilderness, as if the wild, instead of
the grace of life-forms in somewhat balance, was just lawless -
- Alan
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, John Hopkins wrote:
Just wanted to say the walks are beautiful, intense, disturbing; I love the
desert myself -
thanks Alan -- it's the only way I can survive here -- walking off-trail
alone (though I do take friends about half the time -- to introduce them to
the land in the West)... though the presence of the military *is* ubiquitous
out here - in the sky, on the land, argh... Gen. Patton brought 1 million men
out into the Mojave desert with tanks, planes, jeeps, and so on preparing for
the North Afrika campaign (Much of the Mojave Desert is now a 'pristine'
conservation area, but when you know what a tank can do to the desert soil
surface, you can see the damage everywhere...)
jh
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