[FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...

[Jon Zingale]

"I feel I should scream on Eric’s behalf."

Yeah, someone should. I unfortunately cannot.

I spent a bit of time in my early twenties hitchhiking throughout North
America, which often led to traveling between American festival culture
loci. While I feel my orientation/attitude traveling was a bit misguided
and overly ascetic, I witnessed enough to recognize how the awe-filled
spiritualist modality grants certain adaptive advantages in certain
cultural contexts. I spent nights alone beneath a tree, hovering over a
book on dynamical systems as if it were Talmud, while three or four hippies
in the tent nearby giggled, dropped acid and rubbed their naked bodies
together. Then there are the wealthy and retired physicists I've known, who
in attempting to continue riding the wave since their LANL swinger days,
present signs of enlightenment to young and mystifieds returned home from
ashram hopping in India, soaking in patchouli oil and emptiness.

In the end, I can understand how such dopamine circuits get reinforced and
certain affective personalities are formed. I suppose I am too accepting of
the elaborate performances humans design. Sometimes in retrospect I think,
"What the hell was I doing?"
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