Outsider: a person who does not belong to a particular group .A person who is not accepted by or who is isolated from society.
Renegade: a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.
-The Desert is not historical; neither embodies history.
-The Desert kills history, as we know it in Europe and reconfigures it as a mere distorted shadow, ghost or past memory. In order to understand the myth of the Desert, we must look at what got lost in it.
Each grain of sand personifies and stages an epic battle between men and “The (titanic) Desert”; consequently a part of human history got burnt within its boundaries, within its mesmerizing peyote-like cryptic trips.
From the Spanish Conquistador delusional gold-rush adventures in arid Arizona, passing through John C. Van Dykes “land of illusions and thin air” where “the vision is so cleared at times that the truth itself is deceptive" and Michael Foucault LSD trip in the Death Valley; to the smuggling tunnels controlled by the Arellano Felix Organization and the one-percenters motorcycle gangs long and noisy drives on Highway 10; the Desert eats up and consumes human events, illusions and delusions. -
-The Desert is considered to be the land of the outsiders and renegades because it is its actual superlative; the Desert doesn’t even belong to itself, it cannibalizes its body after making love with its own persona.
-The Desert makes no sense because it rejects identity and genericallity; ironically it feels all the same. It is trapped within the beauty of tragedy.
-The Desert is loved because it can easily kill its lover; it is the ultimate sociopath; it is the materialization of Saturn eating its children.
-The Desert is the land of re-inventions and temporal creations; it is the only way of erasing oneself from history and memory; of living a present that lacks of past and future; of death without dying…
