@nnoble: Excellent! Also for small groups - it has no right to rain on Sunday afternoons in the area of the DT Bar.
Anthem: "Who'll Stop the Rain?" - Creedance Clearwater Revival, about 1969
Ian, tune your guitar.

@lemon lover: Sorry, this is a dialectical process, nothing goes backwards for long. Quote from Karl Marx: 'Who will educate the educators?', replace 'educators' with 'weathermen' - new age, new slogans.

@Colin: I'm with you! We might contemplate a publication around which to organize - a title like 'Weather Resistance', front page breaking news about damp clothes on the backs of popular comrades, then with complicated theoretical arguments that no one reads on the inside in attempts to finger the culprits, with 'J'accuse'-type editorials aimed at God, Trump, friends with more than one umbrella who don't share, pleas to the monsoon god, people who boil their food rather than fry it, attacks on the regular press ('All the news that fits, we print') - get the trancedance people out there in the suburbs to choreograph rain dances, treatises on human rights, get Nevada to write new songs - the possibilities are endless and entertaining! I've been waiting for this opportunity since about 1968.

Wonder if we could get Donald Trump to sign up? But then of course it may not have anything to do with human activity. At least not yet. Maybe.
Xi Jinping would, I think, be more receptive.

@Haali: I've got nothing against paintball shooting, have been interested in the idea of playing for a long time. However, as to when video games became a way of describing 'real life' (I too am becoming a bit confused about this term, and I don't play video games), I kind of think it's been influencing brains quite a bit for quite awhile - most of it seems to be focused on zap the enemy - yeah, okay, but when that's all that's going on, I think it becomes a bit too easy a a way to conceive of human relations.
On the other hand, how is it different from the cowboys & Indians that were pretty popular with 6-year-olds, at least among Americans, for - what - a century? I'm sure kids do something similar almost everywhere.
No, I'm not sure what this means, but it's worth thinking about, and why it's the case.