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	''--Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994''		''by Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994''

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	'''Down Lombard'''<br>''Video: Super 8 film by Jim Swanson''		'''Down Lombard'''<br>''Video: Super 8 film by Jim Swanson''

			[[Image:Cm-lombard-july-2007-0036.jpg]]

			'''Down Lombard during Critical Mass in July 2007.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	[[The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle \| Wiggle Mural]]		[[The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle \| Wiggle Mural]]

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	"Community" is a much abused word. Everyone uses it for everything, and it has become a kind of verbal talisman to be waved over a political, business or neighborhood project, thereby claiming it as "good." Even though community is an empty term and has been conceptually degraded along with most aspects of sincere human interrelationship, we all long for something like it. In the 1990's we are all working twice as much and twice as hard to at least get by. The creatively ambitious take on more and more projects to make contributions to daily life and culture in pursuit of fame and fortune. In this frenzy of overwork we have lost many of our organic connections to one another. How many people can still drop in unannounced on their friends without causing disruptions and resentment? How many of us have a daily or weekly experience of meeting with our neighbors and friends in a social environment other than the supermarket, mall or boutique? Why do we spend so much of our lives doing things alone in a crowd?		"Community" is a much abused word. Everyone uses it for everything, and it has become a kind of verbal talisman to be waved over a political, business or neighborhood project, thereby claiming it as "good." Even though community is an empty term and has been conceptually degraded along with most aspects of sincere human interrelationship, we all long for something like it. In the 1990's we are all working twice as much and twice as hard to at least get by. The creatively ambitious take on more and more projects to make contributions to daily life and culture in pursuit of fame and fortune. In this frenzy of overwork we have lost many of our organic connections to one another. How many people can still drop in unannounced on their friends without causing disruptions and resentment? How many of us have a daily or weekly experience of meeting with our neighbors and friends in a social environment other than the supermarket, mall or boutique? Why do we spend so much of our lives doing things alone in a crowd?

			[[Image:Critical-Massifesto-June-1994 side-one.jpg\|330px\|left\|thumb\|Critical Massifesto, June 1994, side one]] [[Image:Critical-Massifesto-June-1994 side-two.jpg\|330px\|right\|thumb\|Critical Massifesto, June 1994, side two]]

			'''[[Critical Mass Xerocracy: San Francisco 1992-93\|Xerocracy from Critical Mass]]'''

	Critical Mass offers itself as an antidote to the elimination of public space which plagues our lives. We no longer know (if we ever did) why we need public space, and we surely don't know what to do with it when we have it. So we roll along in a Critical Mass, vibrating with the peculiarly unique euphoria that comes from displacing the noisy, dirty stream of cars and being surrounded by interesting and attractive people. We exchange ideas and learn about new things in a simple, "natural" community of bicyclists who have chosen to voluntarily gather in our monthly organized coincidence. As this experience becomes more common and familiar we begin to develop ideas about life's possibilities that are considerably richer and more communal than the atomized, individualistic solutions that are the only ones that make sense when we are trapped in our "normal" late-capitalist lives.		Critical Mass offers itself as an antidote to the elimination of public space which plagues our lives. We no longer know (if we ever did) why we need public space, and we surely don't know what to do with it when we have it. So we roll along in a Critical Mass, vibrating with the peculiarly unique euphoria that comes from displacing the noisy, dirty stream of cars and being surrounded by interesting and attractive people. We exchange ideas and learn about new things in a simple, "natural" community of bicyclists who have chosen to voluntarily gather in our monthly organized coincidence. As this experience becomes more common and familiar we begin to develop ideas about life's possibilities that are considerably richer and more communal than the atomized, individualistic solutions that are the only ones that make sense when we are trapped in our "normal" late-capitalist lives.

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	[[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Prev. Document]] [[Xerocracy \|Next Document]]		[[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Prev. Document]] [[Critical Mass Xerocracy \|Next Document]]

	[[category:Transit]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Bicycling]]		[[category:Transit]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Bicycling]]

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	[[category:Transit]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Dissent]]		[[category:Transit]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Bicycling]]

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			'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

			''--Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994''

	[[Image:transit1$cm-on-potrero-hill.jpg]]		[[Image:transit1$cm-on-potrero-hill.jpg]]

	'''August 1999: 2,000 Critical Massers go up Potrero Hill and down Vermont Street, the "real" curviest street in SF!'''		'''August 1999: 2,000 Critical Massers go up Potrero Hill and down Vermont Street, the "real" curviest street in SF!'''<br>''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	Critical Mass continues to grow. Over 30 cities are having their own unique version of Critical Mass. The Critical Mass experience gives its participants something tangibly more than a mere bike ride. Most of us feel cut off and isolated in our daily lives from the people around us. How many of us know our neighbors? How many of us have lived in the same place longer than a few years? Modern life at the center of the world market is perversely abundant when it comes to goods and services, but in the profound disruption of traditional communities and cultures that has been a necessary prerequisite for the expansion of the market, we have lost a great deal of our humanity, the part of ourselves which finds its development in community.		Critical Mass continues to grow. Over 30 cities are having their own unique version of Critical Mass. The Critical Mass experience gives its participants something tangibly more than a mere bike ride. Most of us feel cut off and isolated in our daily lives from the people around us. How many of us know our neighbors? How many of us have lived in the same place longer than a few years? Modern life at the center of the world market is perversely abundant when it comes to goods and services, but in the profound disruption of traditional communities and cultures that has been a necessary prerequisite for the expansion of the market, we have lost a great deal of our humanity, the part of ourselves which finds its development in community.
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	These are just some of the bigger questions that lurk beneath the bucolic monthly bike ride we call Critical Mass. Fun is still first, because without a pleasurable gathering space, communities will not form and more serious initiatives will continue to be launched in relative vacuums and disappear as quickly as they appear. So if you see anyone trying to drag Critical Mass into a confrontational and narrow approach, be sure to let them know they are violating your space. Speaking your mind on a Critical Mass is easy, fun and it's your duty!		These are just some of the bigger questions that lurk beneath the bucolic monthly bike ride we call Critical Mass. Fun is still first, because without a pleasurable gathering space, communities will not form and more serious initiatives will continue to be launched in relative vacuums and disappear as quickly as they appear. So if you see anyone trying to drag Critical Mass into a confrontational and narrow approach, be sure to let them know they are violating your space. Speaking your mind on a Critical Mass is easy, fun and it's your duty!

	~~''--Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994''~~

	{{#ev:archive\|ssfCMLOMBRD\|320}}		{{#ev:archive\|ssfCMLOMBRD\|320}}

	~~[http://www.archive.org/details/ssfCMLOMBRD~~ Down Lombard]		'''Down Lombard'''<br>''Video: Super 8 film by Jim Swanson''

	[[The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle \| Wiggle Mural]]		[[The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle \| Wiggle Mural]]

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	'''August 1999: 2,000 Critical Massers go up Potrero Hill and down Vermont Street, the "real" curviest street in SF!'''		'''August 1999: 2,000 Critical Massers go up Potrero Hill and down Vermont Street, the "real" curviest street in SF!'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	Critical Mass continues to grow. Over 30 cities are having their own unique version of Critical Mass. The Critical Mass experience gives its participants something tangibly more than a mere bike ride. Most of us feel cut off and isolated in our daily lives from the people around us. How many of us know our neighbors? How many of us have lived in the same place longer than a few years? Modern life at the center of the world market is perversely abundant when it comes to goods and services, but in the profound disruption of traditional communities and cultures that has been a necessary prerequisite for the expansion of the market, we have lost a great deal of our humanity, the part of ourselves which finds its development in community.		Critical Mass continues to grow. Over 30 cities are having their own unique version of Critical Mass. The Critical Mass experience gives its participants something tangibly more than a mere bike ride. Most of us feel cut off and isolated in our daily lives from the people around us. How many of us know our neighbors? How many of us have lived in the same place longer than a few years? Modern life at the center of the world market is perversely abundant when it comes to goods and services, but in the profound disruption of traditional communities and cultures that has been a necessary prerequisite for the expansion of the market, we have lost a great deal of our humanity, the part of ourselves which finds its development in community.
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	These are just some of the bigger questions that lurk beneath the bucolic monthly bike ride we call Critical Mass. Fun is still first, because without a pleasurable gathering space, communities will not form and more serious initiatives will continue to be launched in relative vacuums and disappear as quickly as they appear. So if you see anyone trying to drag Critical Mass into a confrontational and narrow approach, be sure to let them know they are violating your space. Speaking your mind on a Critical Mass is easy, fun and it's your duty!		These are just some of the bigger questions that lurk beneath the bucolic monthly bike ride we call Critical Mass. Fun is still first, because without a pleasurable gathering space, communities will not form and more serious initiatives will continue to be launched in relative vacuums and disappear as quickly as they appear. So if you see anyone trying to drag Critical Mass into a confrontational and narrow approach, be sure to let them know they are violating your space. Speaking your mind on a Critical Mass is easy, fun and it's your duty!

	by Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994		''--Chris Carlsson, June 7, 1994''

	~~[http~~:~~//www.~~archive~~.org/movies/details-db.php Down Lombard]~~		{{#ev:archive\|ssfCMLOMBRD\|320}}

	[~~[The Duboce Bikeway Mural~~: ~~Gateway to the Wiggle Wiggle Mural]~~]		[http://www.archive.org/details/ssfCMLOMBRD Down Lombard]

	~~Contributors~~ to ~~this page include:~~		[[The Duboce Bikeway Mural: Gateway to the Wiggle \| Wiggle Mural]]

	~~''Carlsson,Chris - Photographer-Artist ''~~

	~~Carlsson,Chris - Writer~~		[[WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Prev. Document]] [[Xerocracy \|Next Document]]

	[[~~WHITHER BICYCLING? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? \|Prev. Document~~]] [[~~Xerocracy \|Next Document~~]]		[[category:Transit]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:Dissent]]

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