The car ride back was a quiet affair. The memories of the
weekend filled our heads. We all wanted to go back.
“Turn left here” said Angela, breaking the silence and
shaking me from my thoughts.
“I can’t believe it’s already over”
“I know, it feels like we were just pulling up on Thursday
and its Monday morning already”
I couldn’t think of anything to add, so I nodded my head and
stared out the window. I notice three cows walking in the field. We don’t have
cows in my town. I wonder if they could hear the music this weekend too.
“Dude do you remember those lasers!? And that stage was
incredible. It looked like a Scorpion!”
“Yeah and that guy who climbed up on the light tower, I
couldn’t believe it! Everyone was freaking out hoping he wouldn’t fall…”
“Ugh Take me back I just want to stay forever!”
All I can think of is the class I have to go to in a few
hours. I scroll through my reading "Work to Text" and wonder if Roland Barthes would have
enjoyed a music festival. I imagine his idea that work is an object of
consumption could easily apply to our society today. All we do is consume.
People need a little more love and a little less capitalism. People need to question more. I don't know the solution to the problems, but I know first we need to get mad.
It’s time to wake up.
“In terms of the spaceship earth, the wrong crew is in
command, and it is time for a mutiny”
-Mayan Indian
"In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey
just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to
disobey unjust laws."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly
been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more
destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing
laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase
of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
-Albert Einstein
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