| | Unbelievable. That was the type of community feel (the caliber of people and foci, not the number of people) that I'd like to live, not just visit. It was full of intelligent informed passionate often intense but somehow still laid back dialogue, a rennaisance of technology, some of it bound to catch on and catch on in a big way, old hippies (I'm serious...perhaps well more than half the people there were 50-something or over), and bumper stickers like "It's a Planet Not an Empire" and that ever common Coexist one. Unlike most places, there was virtually no litter. The toilets (alright...porta potties) were all clean (after all that water, I visited about 20 of them). The dinnerware was composted or otherwise recycled, picked up in leg powered two person vehicles. Many or most at the fair were carrying around their own metal lined water bottles or canteens instead of buying drinks in traditional plastic bottles or cans. I had my trusy camping knive-sporks with me. Some people went a step further and brought their own dinner plates. The concept of "respect the Earth, respect your neighbor" went incredibly deep to a practical level, political, spiritual and often religious level and there was something for all religions that fit into this scenario from Christianity's "Love thy neighbor" to agnostic and Pagan concepts of Gaia, Mother Nature as Goddess(es), and so on. It was invigorating. Le big huge sigh! (I have never seen so many men with white or graying ponytails congregated in one place in my life!) |
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