We See as We Be⁠↗

The peculiar stew of old school “keep Austin weird” iconoclasm, paired with one of the highest concentrations of info marketers and New Age lifestyle coaches in the country, Burners, anti-vaxx UFC podcaster bros, God, Guns and Guts Evangelicals, a slug of crytpo currency Silicon Valley libertarians and Don’t Mess with Texas homesteading tax resisters… Well, that right there, friends and neighbors, is what we call a spicy gumbo. And here’s the thing––this kind of metastasizing meme-pool is creating all sorts of mutations rarely seen in the wild. The UFC bros have been going to Burning Man, the Burners have been studying up on tax resistance and guns. The Jesus people are tracking the Book of Revelations, but the New Age folks are happy to bolt those End Times tales onto their Kali Yuga and Hopi prophecies. The Libertarians are building blockchain economies and spaceships.

Everyone’s buying ranches for apocalypse communities.