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Author: Ellery James Roberts
How does it feel — when you are in your mid-twenties — to experience a context of isolationism choose by people who "prefer to stay home watching daytime TV"? How do you react to hate and "stupidity" after having lived in a European city based on tolerance?
Inequality: redistribution: pre-distribution. You do not own the virtual you. Privacy is a fundamental element of a free society.
This morning I returned to the city I grew up in, after 3 expansive years spent in the ports of Amsterdam. I had left the perpetual grey of Manchester, England in a spiral of disillusionment, falling ever further into a cycle of angst against the culture of the town and country of my birth. After a few months of wandering, penniless and restless, around the European continent, I ended up in Amsterdam. I was immediately taken by the laissez-faire attitude of "live & let live" that I, as an outsider, projected onto the rich tapestry of aged psychedelics, pioneers, occultists and pimps who populate the wilder fringes of the city. I felt like I was witnessing the authentic lives of people who still enjoyed the liberty to ...
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