since ive been posting cute drawings recently i feel obligated to flex a little esoterica. did you know you can pull off US highways and buy memorabilia that would be illegal to buy and sell in europe. people do not know about things like this. steiner said kali yuga ended btw.
its just sitting there. usually i think someones grandfather died or something and some young people are just unloading his stuff. thats really the only possible explanation for it. pretty cheap, too. relatively. hope you guys are having a good weekend.
theres a special subset of the weirdo american scholar archetype that would collect things, books, etc., that are illegal in other countries but legal here just to have them, because you can. gotta respect that on some level, although this type of person is no longer understood.
by most people, anyway. heard a story once about a guy who had assembled such a collection and library set up. he was african american, just an interesting note considering the general perception of such things, and had all kinds of (actual) banned literature stored up.
basically he had accumulated any fringe or bizarre or banned (in other countries) books + items he could find, and then his nephew or something found it and started reading it, and he had this interesting ethical dilemma of how to frame it and if he should allow that. interesting
cant post anything because people get the wrong idea but one of the coolest things, its the only real physical item i have that isnt paper, is a pocketwatch. i actually picked it up in bulgaria in a random store. they had swords and stuff too but i couldnt fly with them obviously
and it still works. its pretty insane. every now and then i wind it up and hold it up to my ear and think about someone almost 100 years ago who bought this watch and carried and it also put it to their ear and heard the same ticking. its pretty crazy, every time, ngl.
lately ive been thinking about history a lot. havent gone out in a while but you find some random book or something from 100+ years ago and you feel some kind of responsibility towards it. scholars call it "material culture". i have a small american archive now i am very proud of
actually just checked + it seems the legality of owning certain items from certain regimes is ambiguous in europe or changes occasionally. was going off of what someone told me when i was there. if any euros know the exact situation i would be curious.
https://twitter.com/owenbroadcast/status/1464670477323055107?s=20
while we're on this topic one of my latest random collections is, i emailed a fringe (not violent just splintered off and are atypical) religious group a few months ago after i heard one of their members on a podcast say they have an addition to their scriptures and send them out
for free. so i found the guy and emailed him in august and they just got back to me and are sending it to me. id rather not say what as i dont want to flood them with purely curious inquiries but when i get it if its cool ill post it. we american religious ethnography now
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