Counterculture in America

Collected Agenda #18

Thursday, November 7

I watched the election at The Free Press party, and then at Earth, and then at Sovereign House. Magdalene Taylor wrote the Sovereign House Scene Report for GQ, which you can read here. The only thing I can really add is that while I also was not on the winning team, I did arrive late, and then stuck around until some approximation of the bitter end. I don't really have any sweeping political commentary to offer from my evening spanning the Election Parties of New York City. On all sides, people seemed generally more subdued in their mourning and/or celebration than I expected. 

Looking through the backyard window of Sovereign House a few hours before results are declared but a few hours after everyone is already certain of what they will be, you can see a shadowy mass of people cast in the blue light of projector TV. You can see some outlines of figures jumping, but their forms are blurred by the clusters they compose together. A few people are chanting USA, but not…