At some point, I'd also like to contrast the "waiting room" experience with a very different one, which promotes a feeling of "communion" or "rejuvenation" -- one which is outside in the open, fragrant with flowers, with food that maybe people have to pick themselves, and perhaps some live music and creative things that people can help with. I'd like to do it at the community garden across the street, but people keep sending me around in circles. Seems like they'd rather have one or two people (supposedly) grow things in it, but the rest of the time have it strewn with trash and treat anyone poking around with suspicion. There's so much land Duke has over that way, but students still struggle with housing and food. Barbaric. But Duke can pay people to use gas-powered leaf blowers to spray everyone's litter into the creek?! Out of sight, out of mind. Anyway, it could even be electronic/AI-generated "live" music, to instill a sense of the "old way" being "the future" (or vice versa). The overall experience, though, even if it is fragmented, is equally religious and political: I'm trying to achieve and induce liberation/salvation/rebirth/transcendence from the ignorance/darkness of the neoliberal paradigm through creative integration with it. This can lead to its gradual dissolution through collective and transformative experiences of cognitive entropy and cultural re-patterning. Expansion and contraction: the breath of effective and sustainable social design