When I was at Findhorn I meet this extraordinary tree expert who had devoted his life to saving trees. Just got back from Washington lobbying to save the red woods. 84 years old he always travels with a back pack because he never knows where he's gonna be tomorrow. And when I meet him at Findhorn he said to me 'where are you from?' and I said New York. He said 'ahh New York, that's a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact they want to leave but never do?' And I said 'oh yes' and he said 'why do you think they don't leave?' I gave him different banal theories. He said 'no, I don't think it's that way at all' he said 'I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they built. They built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and as a result they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison.' And then he went into his pocket and he took out a seed for a tree. He put it in my hand and said 'escape before its too late'
Friday, September 14, 2007
Another dinner, this time with Andre
When I was at Findhorn I meet this extraordinary tree expert who had devoted his life to saving trees. Just got back from Washington lobbying to save the red woods. 84 years old he always travels with a back pack because he never knows where he's gonna be tomorrow. And when I meet him at Findhorn he said to me 'where are you from?' and I said New York. He said 'ahh New York, that's a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact they want to leave but never do?' And I said 'oh yes' and he said 'why do you think they don't leave?' I gave him different banal theories. He said 'no, I don't think it's that way at all' he said 'I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they built. They built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and as a result they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison.' And then he went into his pocket and he took out a seed for a tree. He put it in my hand and said 'escape before its too late'
