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http://concordiamovement.blogspot.com/2007/03/black-iron-prison.html



Modern Discordians have finally almost created a new idea on their own . . . they only had to rip it off from an imfamous CIA investigated sci-fi hack named Dick. How appropriate.

This idea is known as the Black Iron Prison, and the basic concept is that your own perceptions are a prison from which you can never break free from. Once you realize you are trapped in a prison you can try to break out, but once you are outside you realize you are trapped within a larger, more impenetrable, prison. No matter what you do, or what you try, you are trapped.

What a cheery concept.

They offer no ways to get out, or think around this concept, its just laid out there and you had better digest it, accept it, and like it or you are a shallow fool who doesn't get the 'harsh reality' of the situation.

The idea comes from Dick's book Valis, which nobody I know has read or even heard of. The more obscure, the better, I guess.

Which disgruntled noob was this?

Its one of our own, posing as a passably intelligent (but not too smart) critic.

Details?

None, but I'm 99% certain.

Of course, it could be Laz, but the arguments on the page are all so painfully flawed, yet well written and show some thought.  Which I don't think he can do.

Intuitive suspicion.  Also, it takes someone quite intelligent to make semi-intelligent yet fatally flawed articles like theirs.

Bump to Bring and Brag.

I think we should do this once a week or so.

I think its Baron von Hoopla

http://concordiamovement.blogspot.com/2007/03/black-iron-prison.html



Modern Discordians have finally almost created a new idea on their own . . . they only had to rip it off from an imfamous CIA investigated sci-fi hack named Dick. How appropriate.

This idea is known as the Black Iron Prison, and the basic concept is that your own perceptions are a prison from which you can never break free from. Once you realize you are trapped in a prison you can try to break out, but once you are outside you realize you are trapped within a larger, more impenetrable, prison. No matter what you do, or what you try, you are trapped.

What a cheery concept.

They offer no ways to get out, or think around this concept, its just laid out there and you had better digest it, accept it, and like it or you are a shallow fool who doesn't get the 'harsh reality' of the situation.

The idea comes from Dick's book Valis, which nobody I know has read or even heard of. The more obscure, the better, I guess.

Which disgruntled noob was this?

Its one of our own, posing as a passably intelligent (but not too smart) critic.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ktpcpdxz23

Yeah, I know.  I'm 99% certain of who it is too, and I like giving them the exposure they deserve.

Just so you know, the Anarchists Cookbook was the creation of the son of a far-right US senator (several names have been floated), filled with purposefully bad advice intended to blow up hippies during the Vietnam War.  The man who claims to have written in, William Powell, is almost certainly a fake, if he even exists at all.

Still, the mystique of the book is incredible and upsetting the encryption nazis is never a bad thing.

The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
The Rebel, by Camus
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
Revelation X - The Subgenius Foundation
The Will to Power by Nietzsche
Candide, by Voltaire
The Iliad by Homer (and supporting artists)
The Simarillion by Tolkein
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

http://concordiamovement.blogspot.com/2007/03/black-iron-prison.html



Modern Discordians have finally almost created a new idea on their own . . . they only had to rip it off from an imfamous CIA investigated sci-fi hack named Dick. How appropriate.

This idea is known as the Black Iron Prison, and the basic concept is that your own perceptions are a prison from which you can never break free from. Once you realize you are trapped in a prison you can try to break out, but once you are outside you realize you are trapped within a larger, more impenetrable, prison. No matter what you do, or what you try, you are trapped.

What a cheery concept.

They offer no ways to get out, or think around this concept, its just laid out there and you had better digest it, accept it, and like it or you are a shallow fool who doesn't get the 'harsh reality' of the situation.

The idea comes from Dick's book Valis, which nobody I know has read or even heard of. The more obscure, the better, I guess.

Yes.

IMO.

Well, apart from the lack of food, yeah.

Those hamsters are mentally challenged.  And calling them retards is offensive.

Yes.

Cain,
lived in the country for far too long.

And?  You say that like its a bad thing.