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Saturday, March 10, 2012 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM

Emory Oak, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 8, 2012
Emory Oak, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 8, 2012

Two oaks

Two kinds of oak trees grow here - Emory oaks and the smaller gray oaks.

It snows here too - got a few flurries this cold overcast morning.

Night camp

Site 4 Cygnus - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM

A Theory of the State

States have a peculiar dual character. They are at the same time forms of institutionalized raiding or extortion, and utopian projects. The first certainly reflects the way states are actually experienced, by any communities that retain some degree of autonomy; the second however is how they tend to appear in the written record.

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber, pg 65

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