Elections !?!

Liberal Vote:40.7% Swing:+3.3

Surviving Howard
Three more years of Howard. One thousand days of mourning. Any suggestions for ways to cheer ourselves up?

HONESTY in government, ETHICALITY in the government, HONOUR from a leader. It looks like we as a nation do not require these things …. depressed

I have now heard the term afluenza/affluenza used to describe this sort of voting patern…

affluenza
This disease is called affluenza it is very contagious and once infected with the disease it is difficult to unseat. Affluenza us characterized as an unhealthy relationship with money, swollen expectations and trying to keep up with the Joneses. Affluenza creates stress, bankruptcies, and causes problems in relationships.

Introduction to Dérive

dérive: an experimental mode of behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society; a technique for hastily passing through varied environments. Also used, more particularly, to designate the duration of a prolonged exercise of such an experiment

Dérive :: One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll.

Rules for a Dérive

1. One or more persons may dérive
2. The most fruitful numerical arrangement consists of several groups of two or three people.
3. It is preferable for the composition of these groups to change from one dérive to another.
4. Drop your usual motives for movement and action, relations, work and leisure activities.
5. The average duration of a dérive is a day, considered as the time between two periods of sleep.
6. The times of beginning and ending have no necessary relation to the solar day.
7. The last hours of the night are generally unsuitable for dérives.
8. A dérive seldom occurs in its pure form.
9. The spatial field of the dérive may be precisely delimited or vague.
10. The spatial field depends first of all on the point of departure.
11. The maximum area of this spatial field does not extend beyond the entirety of a large city and its suburbs.
12. The minimum area can be limited to a small self-contained ambiance (the extreme case being the static-dérive of an entire day within the Saint-Lazare train station).

Extrapolated from Guy Debord’s 1958 Theory of the Dérive

LINKS:
Introduction to Dérive
Rules for a Dérive
Psychogeography and the dérive
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