here is a rational reasoning selected from a recent reading.

"following the late ethnologist michel de certeau, we prefer to concentrate our attention on the independant use of mass culture products, a use which, like the ruses of camouflaged fish and insects, may not "overthrow the system," but which keeps us intact and autonomous within that system, which may be the best for which we can hope. [...] going to dysney world to drop acid and goof on mickey isn't revolutionary; going to dysney world in full knowledge of how ridiculous and evil it all is and still having a great innocent time, in some almost unconscious, even psychotic way, is something else altogether. this is what de certeau describes as "the art of being in-between," and this is the only path of true freedom in today's culture. let us, then, be in-between. let us revel in baywatch, joe camel, wired magazine, and even glossy books about the society of spectacle, but let's never succumb to the glamorous allure of these things."

- hermenaut zine -