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Saturday, May 12, 2012 - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX

Camped at Blue West, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 11, 2012
Camped at Blue West, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 11, 2012

Dry

Lake Meredith is nearly dry, and has been for years. The Canadian River drainage seems to be suffering a severe drought. Ute Lake, where I camped before coming here, is also a reservoir on the Canadian and it too is nearly dry.

Night camp

Blue West - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX

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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