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Friday, June 5, 2020

The force is with them

Human crowds in time-lapse look like a large single organism, don't they, or maybe a collective to which resistance is futile. What can I do, people say to rationalize their apathetic inactivity. You can get in step with progressive peers and become a force.

It's about the journey, sure, but this looks like it's going to get somewhere. Disengagement is disingenuous.



On ordinary days we each walk alone or with a companion or two on the sidewalks, and the streets are used for transit and for commerce. On extraordinary days—on the holidays that are anniversaries of historic and religious events and on the days we make history ourselves—we walk together, and the whole street is for stamping out the meaning of the day. Walking, which can be prayer, sex, communion with the land, or musing, becomes speech in these demonstrations and uprisings, and a lot of history has been written with the feet of citizens walking through their cities... It could be called marching, in that it is common movement toward a common goal, but the participants have not surrendered their individuality... Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

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