Bolivia, Web Piracy, and the Ganjobicicletholic Church

I finally left Peru two days ago and I am now sitting in an internet cafe in La Paz. I arrived here last night after a long, tiring day. La Paz sits in a large valley which makes it difficult to navegate for someone who is visiting for the first time. After, blatantly disregarding a sign that prohibits cyclists from entering the highway that descends into the valley from Barrios Altos, I arrived in the hotel zone of La Paz, about a half-hour later, ready for the embrace of a nice, warm bed.
My first impression of Bolivia is that it is dirt-cheap aside from the $135 dollars I had to pay to enter Bolivia. I actually paid $140 since I didn't have any change. The immigration office claimed to not have any change and I didn't protest the extra $5 as I saw it as a fee to expedite the process. I have heard from other Americans entering Bolivia that they have been given a hard time by the authorities. Aside from paying the money and filling out a long immigration form, I found the process to be relatively painless. My first meal in Bolivian territory cost 5 bolivianos and my first stay in a lodging cost 12 bolivianos. The current boliviano to dollar ratio is 7 to 1. There don't seem to be many places to spend my money here so I wouldn't be surprised if I spend less money in all of Bolivia than I did to enter it. I should mention a certain caveat: the 12 boliviano lodging did not have even a collective bathroom for its guests.
Bolivia is the only country I know of where the president goes on hunger strike when he doesn't get his way, legislatively speaking that is. I am a fan of Evo Morales. I think he is overplaying his hand with a lot of the social reforms that he is trying to enact but, overall, I like him. There are not enough presidents in this world who are single and Evo Morales is one of them. He has made his sister the offical First Lady of Bolivia. His life story pretty inspiring for me. He grew up in a family where the vast majority of his brothers and sisters didn't even reach adulthood. He is a polarizing figure as evidenced by the recent attempt on his life in the Santa Cruz region but I believe he really cares about the long neglected Bolivian indigenous majority. I hope that he succeeds in elevating the indigenous poor of this country.
Recently, it was in the news that the proprietors of Pirate Bay have been convicted in a Swedish court of making copyrighted material available for illegal downloading. I have high hopes that they win their appeal as I would like to see recording industry go bankrupt. The music industry has been producing too much homogenous shit for too long. I am tired of hearing songs that range from cliched love songs to celebrations of self-indulgent narcissism. The copyright laws which grant protection to a copyright holder up to 150 years after the death of the original artist need to be changed, too. Even if the proprietors of Pirate Bay lose their appeals, I hope that pirates of the world unite to bring those motherfuckers to their knees.
I have been thinking a lot about creating the Ganjobicletholic Church. The Native American church won the right to use peyote a long time ago from the U.S. Supreme Court so I figured why not use religion as an excuse to smoke pot. The question is how does one create an officially recognized religion. My solution is to apply for I.R.S. tax-exempt status. In order to do this I will have to submit Articles of Confederation and a Constition, among other things, to the I.R.S. I figure if the Jedi Church can get offical recognition in Great Britain than I should be able to achieve official recognition in the U.S.
The next step is to create an official mythology and rituals of the Ganjobicletholic Church. I figured I would just borrow from other religions to create a patchwork of the positive aspects of various religions, kind of like the Unitarian Universalists. We will worship, the sun, the moon, the winds, and nature in general. Prometheus, the bringer of fire in Greek mythology, will be rebranded as the bringer of technology. As fire can grow out of control if one isn't careful so can the use of technology as evidenced by global warming. It will behoove us, the members of the Ganjobicletholic Church, to limit our use of technology in order to achieve a greater balance with nature.
As far as rituals are concerned, I can think of a few rituals that we will borrow from other religions. I like the Day of the Dead which is practised in Catholic Latin America but not much elsewhere. Honoring our dead ancestors is a positive thing as far as I am concerned. I also like the Muslim idea of a once-in-a-lifetime religious pilgrimage. Instead of going to Mecca, though, the end point of a pilgrimage will be discretionary as long as the pilgrimage is made using only human and sail power. Every full moon, we will have a feast and smoke-out which culminates in a large group bike ride afterwards. The use of hallucinogens will be encouraged with proper supervision.
I don't like any of the religions that the world has to offer me. I consider Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to be obselete religions as they were all created at least a thousand years ago in response to the trials and tribulations of said ancient times. I would like to have a religion that incorporates wastefulness and profligacy into our concepts of sinfullness. Jesus never said anything about people who drive Hummers but I think that it doesn't take much imagination to see that this is bad for the world and should, hence, be considered sinful. I don't want to be considered godly or messianic or elevated beyond the rest of humanity so I don't want to be the leader of this new church. I will happily accept the title of Grand Supreme High Archbishop of Austin, though.