The middle class is immobilized by the heaviness of paying bills, borrowing money, saving pennies, and so on and so forth. It does not have true freedom but is constantly in the situation of longing for it, and always fleeing from the other freedom, the freedom of owning nothing, paying little or no expenses. True, poverty is not pleasant, but it does offer freedom from the pressures of being a constant consumer and borrower. In the basement, I went to sleep at any time of the day, woke up at any time of the day. If Luke happened to say, “Let’s go and drink mushroom tea near Mount Index,” I would go. Because why not go and do drugs in the woods? What was stopping me?
Charles Mudede
La Catholique
This is old timey. I live here now.