Your Tax Dollars At Work
a) A six-pack for the best interpolated commentary.
b) I'm told that stuff like this happens on an IRC channel called aleph.
c) If this is the case, I think Loser Mag may have met its match.
richard
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>From leri-request@pyramid.com Thu Oct 14 18:03:23 1993
From: Doctress Neutopia
To: Leri@pyramid.com (Leri)
Subject: COMMUNICATION LOVOLUTION
THE HAZARDS OF HIGH WEIRDNESS BY EMAIL
I started coming online this past Summer after taking introductory
courses in Email. Right away I found a strange message in my box
from someone with the name Lupo the Butcher who said he was a part
of the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu. He had read some of my articles
in the local campus papers and thought that my writings would go
well in Cyberworld. He proceeded to tell me about various mythos
created by science friction writers and the Church of
Virtual/Reality which had grown inside of cyberspace. Lupo urged
me to write to a man named Mitchell Porter who was the author of
High Weirdness by Email.
That was several months ago. High Weirdness lives in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia and I live in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
He maybe as poor as I am being that I am an unemployed graduate
student in Future Studies. But then it happened after several
letters back and forth. The telephone rang one day and it was High
Weirdness from Australia. I had never spoken to anyone from the
other end of the world. It was truly amazing having instant
globalism with someone else. He was calling to tell me that he was
loosing his Email account at Queensland university and that he was
glad that I had joined his Aleph list. A list is run from a
computer. People subscribe to the list and then they all receive
the same Email.
There is something about instant globalism on Email and the
telephone which is purely 21st Century. The potential for us to
really use the technology to network people together in profoundly
new ways is definitely available to us. If we could set the goal
of giving everyone in the world a free Email account and lessons of
computer literacy, and of course language literacy, we would a have
a real global communication revolution on our hands.
Net.love would then have a chance to blossom throughout the world.
What I mean by net.love is loving relationships that begin to form
through the electronic connection, like what High Weirdness and I
are experiencing, a mental eroticism which occurs through
connecting on the idea level.
This is not the kind of energy which one finds occurring in the IRC
channel alt.sex in which vulgar language is used to maintain the
bestial butt fucking and cock sucking of sexist language and
behavior. No, it is the kind of energy which pulls us to global
union and cultural evolution, the energy needed which causes us to
radically change our life-style so that we may save the world by
embracing the Neutopian worldview. The net.love energy doesn't
take into account ones bank account, nationality, social position,
skin color, or age. It is blind to superficial appearances.
Net.love has no desire to make us into sex slaves. Its wish is to
liberate our libido so that it can work for a new communal vision.
Love is the spirit which guides us to make soulmate connections.
As all the great literary works have taught us, love is _the_
subversive power. We now have the technology to radially change
the world in weeks. A couple of IRC love-ins against capitalistic
development would be a good start on the path to planetary
enlightenment. All the great intellectuals have predicted that
what must occur is a revolution in thought. Now we have an
Internet which can convey the revolutionary message of love in
seconds around the world. How would anyone have time for ethnic,
religious, or gender wars when you get hooked into the Internet and
seek out one's intellectual and spiritual dreams, finally to
discover one's True love?
Oh yes, back to High Weirdness. So High Weirdness has been
networking for the past two years trying to make sense out of the
global Internet community. He was assigned the research project of
searching for Netopia, and then he discovered me, Doctress
Neutopia. Neutopia is a vision of total transformation. Wisdom
demands we stop developing the land in the "global shopping mall"
fashion and begin building sustainable ecocities of peace. The
vision is totalizing because we must not leave anyone without the
advantages of 21st Century technology. As Bucky Fuller says, the
vision is to make everyone into billionaires. By satisfying
everyones' basic human needs communally, we will then have the
resources and human strength needed to construct the Neutopian
worldview.
Will High Weirdness be enchanted by the Gaian love spell and work
to create Neutopia with all his mind, body and soul? Does he have
the heart to become Doctress Neutopia's epoch-making lover? Or
will he fall into falsehood thinking he can become the favorite of
the Billuminati who rule the world whom he has claims "has done
just about all of the world of civilization-building to date."
What civilization is he talking about? The modern city in all its
chaos, murder, and isolation? The classist, racist, and sexist
social structure which has made the modern "civilization" a third
world ghetto?
Both of us have been acting completely irrational as we call each
other up from the opposites side of the world and talk to each
other not really thinking about the fact that our telephone bills
will cost us hundreds of dollars in the month to come. But isn't
that love for you! Aren't we thinking outside of the mechanical
gears of the time clock, Newtonian worldview when we speak of love?
High Weirdness has really been touched by the phone call freedom as
he calls to make further contacts with authoresss, fixion writers,
friends, artists, and subgenius leaders throughout the world. His
quest to give and receive knowledge has outweighed the "reality" of
telephone bills as he becomes a communication lovolutionary.
Cut off from the Net, his next best communication tool is the
telephone as this self-actualizing young man of the End Generation
sets out to bring about a _new_ New World Order. "Act locally
think globally" is the grassroots mote. What better way to create
a change of consciousness than by the telephone accept for Email
perhaps?
Yes, there truly is a conspiracy going on against humanity.
Through my interaction with High Weirdness, I have come to see it
more clearly. The enemy has its lines in nearly every modern house
in the world. The enemy works on us by enslaving us to monthly
household bills. Economic pressures make it so that we don't make
the long-distance calls that we should be making. Telephone
commercials play on traditional values telling us that we should
call home on Mother's Day and stay in touch with our nuclear
families. Then the telephone company says that after the installment
charge we have the privilege of making local calls free of charge.
But we have grown into a global species and our soulmates may be
living on the opposite side of the world. If this is the case are
we to live in the agony of being incommunicado? Or will my true love
initiate the lovolution? As Tod Foley recently said during the
IRC #Interrave conference for the rain forests, "The Bill of Rights
means no bills." I propose an international girl and boycott on all
telephone bills throughout the world. Free communication, human
race, or else there is a great chance that we will go extinct from
the silence of no words and the oblivion of Machiavellian politics.
Doctress Neutopia
.
From: agarton@peg.apc.org
Subject: A Taste of LERI
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>From leri-request@pyramid.com Fri Oct 15 22:51:57 1993
From: Doctress Neutopia
To: Leri@pyramid.com (Leri)
Subject: ageless LOVE
Dear Mitch,
I can sense that you have a magnetic personality, a man who is
very attractive to the opposite sex (or the same sex for that
matter). For this reason I feel certain that there are a number of
intelligent women in Australia who would love to be your creative
inspiration and partner. Now that I have reawakened your romantic
nature go ahead and find your match, Mitch, for what is life without
love?
Besides, dearest, I am a decade and a half older than you.
An ex-potential lover once said, I am an "ageing hippie who never made
it." You are a young man filled with hopes and aspirations of
recognition and success. Another reason to forget me is because I
live on the opposite side of the world from you. As Willow said,
"You cannot fall in love with someone who you have never seen who
lives on the opposite side of the world. Love is about caring for
someone in the flesh. It's not a long-distance affair."
I sincerely wish I could say the above statements to you. But
I honestly can not. I don't think that true love can exist without
the lovolution. Love is killed when a couple tries to domestic it
into a nuclear family household. Love is, of course, ageless.
Even though my body maybe ageing, there is something ageless about
my spirit which seeks to connect with its timeless twin. As far as
a long-distance relationship is concerned, as Phyllis said, "If he
is the right one, then it doesn't matter if he lives on the other
side of the universe."
>From leri-request@pyramid.com Fri Oct 15 23:08:25 1993
From: Doctress Neutopia
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 02:02:33 -0400 (EDT)
To: Leri@pyramid.com (Leri)
Subject: The Prison Cell
Message-Id: <9310160602.AA03055@titan.ucs.umass.edu>
Dearest High Weirdness,
I just called your house, but you were not there. The reason
I called was to tell you not to call me again. I don't want you to
go bankrupt or not have enough to eat or not have the money to able
to attend cultural events on my account. If only our world was
more evolved then we would be able to communicate on the telephone
for as long as we wanted without charge. But we are living under
an oppressive corporate regime that doesn't realize that the reason why
technology was invented was so that philosophic Aphrodite and Eros
could roam the world. Maybe in another lifetime when there is
planetary freedom we will finally be able to discover one another.
It is painful for me to have to make these demands on you when I so
much enjoy our telephone conversations, but you are NOT to call me
again unless it it an emergency. I know this sounds funny since
we are in a planetary emergency. The defination of emergency in
the dictionary in front of me says an emergency demands immediate
action.
Consider that we are locked in a prison that doesn't allow any
incoming phone calls. The only way you can communicate with me is
through your once-in-a-while email account and through the snail
mail. So use this time of incommunicado, AO man, to write your
script about our dystopian world situation and how it would be to
live in a Neutopian world which understands the power of erotic
love.
Immortal love,
Doctress Neutopia
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