Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Cacophony Society#3

Wow, so this was a wide awakening. The Cacophony Society likes to think of themselves as, "a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond pale mainstream society," which pretty much sums there whole views and stance on things.  They are often viewed as weird and abnormal individuals that don't fit in with our society. But if one actually thinks about it, most people don't fit in the regular society, most hate their jobs and life, which obviously means that they aren't meant for that.  They are also known to do forms of indirect culture jamming.  So they are aware of they're surroundings in the world and their own society as well. 
One of their famous get together has to be the Santa Claus Con. They completely decided to engulf and strangle society with Santa. One person said " we are giving society something they THINK they want and giving them way too much of it, and the people realize they didn't want any of that at all." This is a culture jamming event, we are constantly told that we have to celebrate Christmas etc. 

This is Disney Land at Burning Man by the Cacophony Society chapter of LA. almost a exact replica of Disney lands.  They seem to be involved artistically also.  This society is considered a weird bunch of individuals by our culture. But are they weird? or are they far from us? are we just afraid of expression and being judged by the rest? I think more of these groups need to be known. This seems so act like sort of a stress release from our constant judgemental society.

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