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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM

Poolside, Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 30, 2008
Poolside, Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 30, 2008

Yesterday I mentioned the spectacular ride up through the Apache National Forest to Mule Creek NM. I had forgotten how spectacularly beautiful the rolling grasslands are along the New Mexico stretch of Mule Creek Road. It's rare to find grasslands like these out here that are not overgrazed. As usual I spent all my time gawking and I have no pictures to share with you.

Night camp

Site 14 - 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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