I took a roadtrip this past week down from Olympia to Portland and then across to the 101 all the way to San Francisco. The trip was long, fun, slow and an intensely American experience. One of the stops we made in Oregon had a warning sign about what to do if you are caught in a riptide and being pulled out into the ocean. The advise is to swim sideways, because if you do nothing you could end up miles out to sea and if you try to fight the overwhelming current you will only exhaust yourself. Swimming sideways is counter-intuitive, but getting out of the overwhelming current is all that is important.
The current that is society pulls so strongly on us that we often feel the need to fight against it, or to just give up and see where it takes us. Both are bad ideas. We must exit the current all together, swimming sideways. I'm not totally sure how to do this practically but tomorrow we will dig deeper into Portland, fighting the current and hipster suburbanites that are just part of the system.
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