Lain Wants To See You: Alienation Therapy

My fave Anime Princess, Eve, has allowed a certain user (who is not a pimecone, BTW) to fill the Elfin Lied hole with a timely tale of social networks and connectivity.

Lain

Serial Experiments 12

We were looking at the basics of formal modern democratic thought, and had basically reduced the malignant Authortarian toxic meme-mimic of Natural Law to a simple set of truisms based on observable natural history. What we're left with is not a Social Contract, a mysterious extra-legislative all-empowering and perpetually binding pre-natal "agreement" suspiciously familiar in tone and effect, but a simple nexus state from which to chart development.

Toxic Mimics

Toxic Originals

It is the nature of life systems to evolve, as opposed to being intentionally constructed. Few branches of hard science even bother to attempt a divination of inception for traces of artiface, linguistics being a notable exception. Social science loses it's footing as science immediately when it assumes a priori that the institutions and methodologies of hierarchical social ordering apparent in such wide diversity across almost all human cultures are intentional and architectured via Social Contracting.

This is one of the many reasons that sociologists and statisticians sit at the table with the broken leg in the Faculty Dining Commons, while historians and NeoMarxian PolyEconomicists sit with the computer science and anthropology people. It does not explain why the historians occassionally huck ketchup cups at them, nor does it shed light on why all involved will blame the physicists for acts of food violence; but you digress.

Please, try to stay on message.

The alienation of humans from the basic aspects of what they as a society and as individuals actually are has accelerated in recent years, at least on the apparent level. It's noticable by the most casual observer; and i highly suggest you try this little experiment.

First, think about the last time you walked around the neighborhood in which you live. Not as exercise; no, just to walk around the block, even better a 2-block radius. How many people live within that area? How many do you know? How many do you talk to?

Now go take that walk. Women should of course wait until daylight, or go with a freind/razor knife. If you see somebody, say "Hi". If you don't know them, introduce yourself as a neighbor.

Just do it. Then we'll talk about comunitee.

Life Mortgage

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In responce to a post on recent apparent ThierSpace deletions in light of the July 17th Executive Order, i popped off with the following Standard Cj Advice To Young Activists:

The question you should ask yourselves is: Am i here on ThierSpace to network with like-minded folks or to have a presence within the general community? I'm here for the later; it's why i came here to begin with. I will stay here, saying the things i do, posting videos and using ThierSpace hosting for media that reflect my dissenting view. I have a SiteSpace, too, which will serve little actual purpose since it appears to be set up for those of dissenting tendency (BTW, that in and of itself puts up a flag in my head, as RCP was set up to do the same in R/L, like a molassas-drenched oilcloth in a windowsill. One catches a lot of flies with honey). Although i dearly love all of you long-timers here on the Truthy™ end of the InterW3rbTubez, i personally would not use ANY site for actual networking within the context of physically resisting fascism. A Rule Of 5 cell organisation is impossible to manage using telecom wires, and the most dedicated, rational and well-connected rebel in Ithica is going to do very little to aid me and mine in Detroit. I look no further than those i can reach out and bitch-slap if neccessary to form an action cadre. Trust No One.
That said, we will never affect change by removing our voices from the gestault in a fultile effort to belatedly safeguard the myth of anonanymity. Remaining a voice in the city calling for reason may encourage others to drop from the gathering mob and begin the cascade failure of the collective illusion needed to bring about a full awakening of middle America. Running to the "safe haven" in the country removes your influence and places you in the Gulag you created for yourselves by doing Thier number one job for them: Divide.

I say this from behind multiple firewalls, BTW. Proxies, kids. Love them. Go get Reporters Without Borders' guide to blogging in a hotzone. You may soon need it.

It should be noted that the above didn't post. Maybe it's merely awaiting CD's moderation. Maybe it was a script jam; ThierSpace scripts do have a life of their own, guys. They can be capricious little parsers sometimes some.

Maybe not.

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents


If one accepts the fact that one becomes a target by being critical and standing against tyranny, and one accepts the fact of tyranny's self-identifying definition, than one should be pro-actively armoured to the extent possible and find one's peace with the silence lurking in the margin between potential threats and the sound of splintering wood and approaching jackboots.

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Black Lagoon Water, VLLC

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Favez JukeBox
a video joint

Two Handed Tales

Let none say that Citizen j doesn't provide the goods, being as "goods" are defined as "cartoons featuring well-endowed ladies killing Nazis/vampires".

Black Lagoon 05 english sub part 1
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Black Lagoon has the usual suspects, with a healthy action-to-filler ratio. Quite unlike certain kiddie Anime that's really pissing me off right now.

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I'm not saying there's any parallels to electoral tyranny here. There probably isn't, other than a broad theme of personal power against legacy institutional power. One must shoot from both hips with accuracy and choose one's battles well. Even so, don't expect more than to be crushed with intact principles. A hero is just a troubled loner until they succeed, and they usually fail.

Now here's some beatz straight outta Beruit.


MCz of tha OTz
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Some of my favorite heroes are just musicians, or in the case of HipHop/Beatmixing, just people with music. Pretty lame for a hero. Not really very heroic. I could say, "well, music, you know, it affects the vibe, it, you know, like, informs and such" but we both know that's shit. Music is less an agent of change than that spunky new haircut of yours. Music may be a measure of a civilization's spark, but it's more likely a reflection of human iconoclastic narcissism and a testament to our inability to understand harmony while mistaking uneccessary complication in artiface for beauty and ingenuity.

Here's more summerfun from the Lands of Sands.


Link TV Special
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Crude Impact
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From the good folks at http://www.linktv.org/. Question: if the USA is in the Western Hemisphere, why do we spend so much time and money and blood in the Eastern Hemisphere?

Remember, the answer is not "oil". We already covered the Myth of Arab Oil.

Bonus Question: Why don't you want a direct vote for Chief Executive?

Motion Censor

If you wanna watch some D Gray, everybody's favorite Akuma-killing, vampire Exorcist hanging-out-with, half-possessed-cyborg toyboy, do so below with haste. These vids get yanked with vengeance by the dark toadies of IP™.


D'Gray's Anatomy
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Here's some animal planet bullshit.


Mortal Carnivalé
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Here's a bit of the very glitchy future we're building our selves. L0lz.


FutureWar Now
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Here's some cartoons.


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i can has DMCA l0lz?

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if i had anything more to say about anything, i'm sure it doesn't matter anyway.

Full-On

Before i take you to Al and Ed's place, perhaps you'd like to read up on the fallout of the Ottoman Enclosure Acts?

No?

'K. Mais oui, we

French Thee Japanese!

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 1

Don't you fear, my little American Yankee Doodles, there is but this first in Francais for you. The rest, we have the English fansubs.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 36

FMA is actually quite the mirror of our world, in both of it's worlds, one of which IS our world, circa World War II.

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First of all, it's about fascism, and the casual evils of following orders.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 38

Secondly it instructs of the greater evils afforded the morally corrupt when they are given the resources of a society to draw upon and the cloak of national security to hide under.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 39

These themes weave around a skein of universal truth expressed as The Law of Equivalent Exchange, an alchemical version of the laws of conservation. It should be noted that this law is a real law in our universe, very important to those of us who have...agreements to navigate.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 40

There are Fuhrers and Homuniculi, madmen and manifestations of military machination; and the greatest horrors are those that humans exact upon thier own kind out of predjudice, indifference and duty with common tools, fire and guns.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 41

Genocides and coverups make the godlike National Alchemists powerless to control their own fascist government, and the Black Gate ties them to the nuclear holocausts and Nazi death-camps of our continuum with a web of fate powered by the souls of those devoured by the endless wars of both worlds.

Good times indeed for two kids trapped in cyborg auto-mail due to hard lessons in The Real Truth™: Equivalent exchange doesn't by any means have to work both ways. Sometimes an arm and a leg just get paid to the Void and you don't get shit. If you can still complain about it, you got a good deal.

Full Metal Alchemist n0. 42

If you can't find a metaphor in Isballa, just grove on Lust's chassis for a spell.

I'm sure you can Google the rest of the story.

Shi Pew Den

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Just as an aside, 100% of the hackerz in this room use Dvorak keyboards. Remember, i'm NOT a hacker, either. I'm Qwerty 4 l1f3, know this.

I had a lot more bile to vent; no idea where it went.

All Hail The New Flesh

Akira
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We assume that the mechanism driving evolution is competition, or rather the laisez faire clockwork of interactions known as natural selection. This hypothesis rests on the idea that some better-suited individuals of a given species are afforded more reproductive oportunities due to thier adaptations, which presumes a situation of scarcity. Scarcity would be neccesary in order to offer the less adapted naught but deprivation, rather than merely less food or water or shelter. Less would be subsistence level, not enough for removal from the gene pool.

See where i'm going with this?

I've mentioned the myth of scarcity before, and although i've tried to allude to it's importance in human affairs i haven't mentioned the fact that accepting it as a primae causae for competition severly disables most of the arguments for mechanisms of natural selection. We see natural selection at work only in areas of actual scarcity, like deserts or the ocean floor, volcanic areas and caves, the Arctic or the complex minute ecosystems of bookshelves. Here the environment is less than nurturing, and life has to adapt to survive. These are exceptions to the general rule of thumb here on Terra, which is an unusually temperate and hospitable world with over 3/4 of it's surface offering not only a living but an easy living for almost any life form. Thus, there is no scarcity of resources, no need to compete.

Yet most creatures do, or rather act as if they need to. This is almost universal.

Almost.

The obvious fact that a meme as complex as the myth of scarcity is part of the conscious processes of millions of different species, including plants, is too much for me to ask you to contemplate. So ignore that path.

Let's focus on what mechanism could possibly supplant natural selection as the mechanism for evolution now that it's debunked, which (like it or not) it is. No, not the grandmotherly compassion of Maha Deva Kali Maa (Jai jai!); full moon on April Fools notwithstanding i am assured that She wants no part in taking responsibility for the infinate permutations of specific petty greed that are involved. So what drives genetic change, other than sporadic mutations?

Choice.

D'oh. Choices, the obvious choice. It is will that drives individual ambition, which is spurred by species specific ambition. How would this affect the genome, you ask?

Regardezvous, si vous plait o non, the Calico Cat.

It has been observed, even in big cats, that when the biome niche of a given feline is threatened there will be produced a Calico, a female whose locii contain all possible attributes for the species. This mother-of-mothers will produce in turn cats of all stripes, literally.

See, other animals know about genetics too, and practice genetic engineering on a much more intimate level than we do. This explains the evolution of certain traits in the natural record that seem to spring up overnight, like sabre-toothing. This explains how the proto-pachydermata returned to the sea as cetacea, and how a scrawny chimp/bonobo with only one set of opposable thumbs became the bald ape typing this now.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, kinder, and i posit thus:

Own your self, own your future.

Start with your vote. It's a small step towards returning to the evolutionary process. Because unlike evolution, devolution really is driven by natural selection. The more evolved will not mix with the common herd, and will most probably be trampled underfoot.

219 years and you STILL don't have the vote, sucker.

Change the Electoral Genome.
Demand Direct Democracy NOW.

Common Sense.