Posted 31 October 2009 - 05:30 AM
I'm nearly as terrified as I am excited for this. Actually, slightly more terrified than excited. It's a strange brew. Driving up with a stranger, drinking with strangers, and staying with strangers, with no control at all on my own. Now, I've done all three of those before, but at least one party was not a stranger. Oh well, you only live once.
Rodeo, you are going to do this for a MONTH? You have medicine balls sized testicles, sir.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....