It's Back!

You think you're alive? You're wrong!

This Saturday.

9:00 p.m.

13th and P Streets.

XXXXtreme Urban Street Tag Rides Again.

Be there, be whole.

call 402-677-5266 for more information.

But what is the significance of tag? Special guest writer Josh Beran can explain it.

The Social Signficance of Tag:

"Survival of the Fittest" is routinely and wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. The phrase, in fact, comes from social theorists who were perhaps a bit overzealous, and certainly far too direct, in pursuing the interests of the better half.

A central tenent of Darwinism is, in fact, randomness. There is no "deserve" in nature. Right and wrong, punishment and reward, justice and injustice, nothing but illusions. The lion does not catch the gazelle because it works harder or has a better grasp of the concept of victory. The lion catches the gazelle because it has the dumb luck of being born a lion.

This is why tag is essential. Those of us who bear the burden of the truth know that our weekly ritual is an act of defiance against the moral anarchy of the bitch-goddess we call nature,a primal scream against the mortal shells with which we have been cursed. But what do the commoners see?

They see rules, "winners", "losers",and most importantly, they see order. Simply put, we of the tag are order, we are society. The veneer of reason we create prevents the peasantry from abandoning their work in dispair; or destroying themselves in hopeless rebellion against forces beyond their understanding.

Thanks to tag, the unwashed accept our arbritary rule as "natural" and turn their dimly realized frustrations upon each other. True, this does create some ugliness from time to time, but this can logically be justified as population control, and at any rate, society is surely more efficiant and productive than it otherwise would be.

If tag did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.