Asylum Notes

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All about one of my current obsessions: East Asia. Pics I've taken, personal experiences, culture;...

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Taipei 101

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I miss you MJ. For a self-identifying stoner, it hasn't actually been so rough, but there are absolutely evenings when there's nothing I want more than a joint. 3 months without a toke, I could really go for one. Please, let's end the abominable war on drugs.

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What Columbus did to the Arawaks of the Bahamas, Cortes did to the Aztecs of Mexico, Pizarro to the Incas of Peru, and the English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts to the Powhatans and the Pequots. They used the same tactics, and for the same reasons — the frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of the expeditions, to finance the monarchical bureaucracies rising in Western Europe, to spur the growth of the new money economy rising out of feudalism, to participate in what Karl Marx would later call “the primitive accumulation of capital.” These were the violent beginnings of an intricate system of technology, business, politics, and culture that would dominate the world for the next five centuries.

Howard Zinn, Chapter 1 of A People’s History of the United States (via scaredykropotkitten)

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1st July - today

Geography [from Zaragoza] . Canfranc Lourdes Toulouse Barcelona Valencia Madrid Lisboa Sevilla Granada

Novel . Against Nature - Huysmans

Side reads . Dashes of Huxley and Waldo Emerson

Audio . Terence McKenna - various Mac Demarco - Salad Days

Opportunities discovered, Spanish improved, people understood better, I think. Personal battles won and lost a many...

...next…

Leave Granada on Monday for a 10 day course to work with Salvia, Ayahuasca and San Pedro in a mountain valley. Fly back to England 1st August. Preparing to head home another person, let’s see.

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Granada

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Barcelona

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This.

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