Culture Jam

I find this bit... inspirational.

Kalle Lasn

The new American dream is simply to approach life full-on, without undue fear or crippling self-censorship, pursuing joy and novelty as if tomorrow you'll be in the ground. The Situationists called this impulse " the will to playful creation," and they believed it should be extended "to all known forms of human relationships." There's no one more alive than the person who is openly, freely improvising-which is why the best stand-up comedians love hecklers, and why the best hosts love a wild-card dinner guest, and why the most electric political figures love deviating from their prepared scripts on live tv. There's no other way to discover what's at your core. This is what the new American dream is all about, and this is the kind of person the culture jammer aspires to be: someone who, to paraphrase Ray Bradbury, "jumps off cliffs and builds his wings on the way down.