Lifetown and actual Life
Welcome to Lifetown, part of the Friendship Circle.
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This is where I spend every other wednsday of the month, in the basement of a building in West Bloomfield Hills converteed into a mock town. Why do I do this? Because, as the name suggests, I take my clients here to teach them how to "live". Obviously, they can't well enough figure out how to do that on our own, now can they? It's not actually meant for our population, it's meant for disadvantaged (poor) children who just need some upper class charity!
We start by filling out withdrawl slips for the bank where we withdraw $12.00 (at the price of $6.00 for admission). We then take our money and, well, we spend it. We go watch old episodes of saved by the bell on the projection screen movie theatre mock up ($4), go see the doctor (free if you have your insurance card!, if not, $6), get your hair styled ($3), shop at the drug store, buy icecream or apples; there are many things to do with that $12.00, and you'd better, because you can't save it for next time! What you put back in the bank is wasted, so spend it all!
While at lifetown, you'd better follow the Lifetown Laws! Make sure that guy dressed as a cop doesn't see you obey the crosswalk, he'll give you a ticket! You don't want that, then you'll have less money to buy things with. This is what you do at Lifetown, you learn to live, you learn to buy things; ice cream, apples, haircuts. . . you live. This is life.
Life is consumerism, thank god a bunch of wealthy people are here to teach our poor children how to be good consumers, not to save money, spend it all! Work, Spend, Don't do anything disruptive, Work, Spend. . .
I feel so fucking dirty everytime I leave I want to shave my skin off with razor blades and ask them how much they think they can sell it for.
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In brighter news, Endciv (a documentery of Derrik Jensen's concepts, produced by Submedia) is making progress. I'm donating for my "Christmas present to the world", I encourage you to as well. I still haven't gotten to reading Jensen, but I've been watching a lot of his speeches and presentations at school as of late.
http://endciv.com/
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Bottling my wine tomorrow, then getting ready to spend the week in my cabin. No running water, electricity, secluded in the winter woods for a week. Sounds pretty damn good. Thinking about building a whiskey still and making some shine while I'm out there, but otherwise it's going to be hiking, fasting, revising poetry and working on learning the guitar. Christmas also marks half way through school, so I'm pretty psyched for that.
http://www.friendshipcircle.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/939618/jewish/Weinberg-Village.htm
This is where I spend every other wednsday of the month, in the basement of a building in West Bloomfield Hills converteed into a mock town. Why do I do this? Because, as the name suggests, I take my clients here to teach them how to "live". Obviously, they can't well enough figure out how to do that on our own, now can they? It's not actually meant for our population, it's meant for disadvantaged (poor) children who just need some upper class charity!
We start by filling out withdrawl slips for the bank where we withdraw $12.00 (at the price of $6.00 for admission). We then take our money and, well, we spend it. We go watch old episodes of saved by the bell on the projection screen movie theatre mock up ($4), go see the doctor (free if you have your insurance card!, if not, $6), get your hair styled ($3), shop at the drug store, buy icecream or apples; there are many things to do with that $12.00, and you'd better, because you can't save it for next time! What you put back in the bank is wasted, so spend it all!
While at lifetown, you'd better follow the Lifetown Laws! Make sure that guy dressed as a cop doesn't see you obey the crosswalk, he'll give you a ticket! You don't want that, then you'll have less money to buy things with. This is what you do at Lifetown, you learn to live, you learn to buy things; ice cream, apples, haircuts. . . you live. This is life.
Life is consumerism, thank god a bunch of wealthy people are here to teach our poor children how to be good consumers, not to save money, spend it all! Work, Spend, Don't do anything disruptive, Work, Spend. . .
I feel so fucking dirty everytime I leave I want to shave my skin off with razor blades and ask them how much they think they can sell it for.
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In brighter news, Endciv (a documentery of Derrik Jensen's concepts, produced by Submedia) is making progress. I'm donating for my "Christmas present to the world", I encourage you to as well. I still haven't gotten to reading Jensen, but I've been watching a lot of his speeches and presentations at school as of late.
http://endciv.com/
----
Bottling my wine tomorrow, then getting ready to spend the week in my cabin. No running water, electricity, secluded in the winter woods for a week. Sounds pretty damn good. Thinking about building a whiskey still and making some shine while I'm out there, but otherwise it's going to be hiking, fasting, revising poetry and working on learning the guitar. Christmas also marks half way through school, so I'm pretty psyched for that.