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June 22, 2007
I flew back from a chilly Canberra to Adelaide and to some urban grit:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Agtet + graffiti, Adelaide, 2007
It is no Silicon valley. It's just empty warehouses, old factories and workshops, intermingled with rundown working class cottages. An area ripe for urban renewal and becoming post-industrial. An area that awaits the developers who are elsewhere.
What has happened to the uprisings, protests, civil disobedience — the stuff in the street in the spirit of Seattle? Is our hope for a more human world now expressed by the graffiti artists?
Community has gone. We tend now to exist alongside one another, never striving to understand what it must be like to be somebody else. We experience the world through our own set of lenses and through nobody else's. Contact with others is fleeting and fragmentary.
Best to join the pack and hang out together.
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I always suspected the dogs!