[Noisebridge-discuss] Science for Juggalos

[joel jaeggli]

Somwhere an expansive definition of juggalos appears to have developed...

my google informs me that these are juggalos

http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/juggalos-1890.jpg

On 2010-06-03 13:00, Christie Dudley wrote:
> I've been holding off chiming in on this for a while.  I have a few odd
> thoughts on it, having had friends that /became/ juggalos.  My friends
> are not stupid (I don't really have any patience for that), they just
> like to rattle the cage of society in their own midwestern style.  Your
> average teenage anarchy doesn't go over so well in a
> low-population-density place.
>
> Keep in mind that the topic of the song /is/ about the wonder of the
> universe.  Believe it or not, ICP took a remarkably spiritual bent a
> couple of years ago and the juggalos have followed along.
>
> I remember discussing with colleagues at the last place I worked how I
> thought it was sweet and a little romantic to discuss the physics behind
> why the sky is blue.  They felt quite the opposite - that knowing what
> makes the sky blue takes the romance out.  It'd be really cool if
> discussion on how these things work would open up all new avenues for
> wonderment.  It's not exactly as if the great thinkers who came up with
> these cool ideas lacked a sense of wonder.
>
> These are just guys who are dissatisfied with following the rules, rank
> and file of the world as they're told.  In other words, they have a lot
> in common with the hacker mentality, they just express it differently.
>
> Christie
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