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Saturday, March 29, 2008 - Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ

Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 29, 2008
Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 29, 2008

I'm camped for the night along Mule Creek Road (AZ 78) in the Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, about 11 miles east of Guthrie AZ and a mile west of the Arizona / New Mexico border.

Primitive camping along Mule Creek Road

After having spent the night in the first rest area west of the New Mexico border when I came through here a couple of weeks ago I discovered the next morning on my journey down off the plateau there are several really nice primitive campgrounds a few miles farther west that I would have preferred to stay at. I'm at one of them now.

Night camp

Primitive campground along Mule Creek Road East of Guthrie AZ

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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