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STFU VEX!  UR VOTING IN THE OLD ONES, AND YOUR ONLY REWARD FOR YOUR SERVICE IS TO HAVE YOUR SOUL EATEN FIRST!

They're going to shit themselves over at TCC if they read too much Rigint.

Satanism, cattle multiliation, gratuitous Lovecraft references, the occult in the military and corridors of power...from a Canadian socialist?

It'll send them into a meltdown of confusion.

The OTO = jacking off, pretending to be Uncle Al, litigation and pissy ethnocentric wars.

Of course, you say that, but....

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2008/03/deep-ones-and-madness-of-crowds_27.html

When Obama wins, the only change will be that his supporters will be eaten first

For the tl;dr crowd:


This, I think, is the deep context in which we should situate the perpetual travesty machine of American politics. Here too, restrained predation "doesn't quite kill or does kill only slowly." Here, rather, it "keeps hope alive."

All through the Bush years, scores of non-Republicans have anticipated the brutal full-flowering of traditional dictatorship with all the trappings: martial law, mass internment and the cancellation of elections. Through much of the Clinton years, many non-Democrats looked for the same. It didn't come (though some are still waiting). It's as if they've not only expected the worst, but sought it, to put them out of their misery. But the worst exceeds their expectations, and their misery is to be protracted indefinitely.

The Kennedys and King, the October Surprise and Mena, anthrax and Wellstone, Gore and Kerry, Florida and Ohio: you might think that would be enough to make most Democrats say You know what? This isn't working out. But elections are paced like the Olympics, and in another four years the Jamaican bobsledders may really have a shot. Hey, anything's possible. And so long as people believe that, and that anything means everything they want, the cycle repeats and self-perpetuates.

The great assassinations of the Sixties were decapitation strikes, never intended to kill the host or to extinguish hope. It's only the hopeless who are dangerous. Hope must be encouraged, because you don't need to do anything to have it, and it keeps the prey from becoming wise to its own nature and seeking extraction from the cycle. Hope makes it possible to write and believe such things as "Al Gore will save the planet but Barack Obama will save this country." Hope that the system works, even if it is just a digestive system.

Restrained predation upon the Democratic Party may be at an advanced stage of domestication, but it also mimics molecular endosymbiosis with the injection of alien organelles in the form of the Trojan horse DLC to which, of all the contenders, both Clinton and Obama are closest in tactics and ideology. Funny how that happened.

And how did that happen? I think there's an institutional instinct at work, in the Deep Context, that maintains the insectival social engine of power. Does Obama know his role? That may be irrelevant, because the volition and cognition of the individuals who form the living manifestation of the system may be grossly overstated. They have given themselves to the system, the system has groomed them and raised them above all others, and they instinctively know what the system requires.

Is it hopeless? Thank Christ, yes, so get used to it. There's a liberation to hopelessness, in knowing what can't be done (or more typically, politically, be done for you), which I personally find preferable to another four years of huffing one's own jenkem. There's no salvation within the political cycle of death and rebirth, consumption and excretion - jellies eat and shit through the same simple hole, which could also be a reasonably sophisticated media analysis - and to hope for such a savior is to be the doomed hero of Lovecraft's fiction.

Perhaps it's not be so far from the Deep Ones to Deep Politics. You could say it all comes out right in the end, but you know what comes out in the end.

Jack Cohen put forth a similar theory.  Religion was to distinguish tribes from outsiders.  If you ate fish on a Friday, or couldn't make the sign of the cross etc....you are clearly an outsider and so potentially dangerous.  Religion allowed for people to recognize those beyond their immediate family/friend ties as part of the tribe and so not dangerous.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

http://rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT285.pdf

God I love it when I'm right.  Brian Jenkins gets a whiff of some pork and the chance to stick it to the Muzzies/support the NeoCons and he goes a running!

Of course, you say that, but....

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2008/03/deep-ones-and-madness-of-crowds_27.html

When Obama wins, the only change will be that his supporters will be eaten first

ANARCHO-COMMUNISM ROOLZ! 

THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DISSOLVE THE STATE IS TO LET THE STATE CONTROL EVERYTHING!  ITS LOGIC, SEE??

Actually, Anarcho-Communism may be the single most Discordian position in politics. Overburden the state with control of everything, and let it collapse under its own paperwork, inefficiency, politicking and stupidity.

But I may be giving away too much of the content of my next rant here.

I havent read Spooner's arguments (although I'm about to) but I just wanted to point out much of the analysis by minarchists and anarchists generally holds that the north should have allowed the south to leave, and then slaves and workers in both should have overthown the governments and dissolved the state (or devolved it as far as possible).

This is the general position, among anarchist circles.  Some disagree, naturally, but it seems to be consensus, and I just wanted to point out some of the thinking behind that analysis.

Culture hacking may be better.  It implies a level of subjectivity in what is being done, which I rather like.

I already have that file, I just dont have reliable hosting.

Thats why I keep suggesting a new term.  'Magick' seems too loaded.

If he says "Praise Jesus" every two or three chords...

I changed my mind.  That would be awesome.

Especially if you were playing Religious Wars in that set.

Dorada really is posting from Peru however, so its perfectly possible than she either used an autotranslator and it came out badly, or her English is somewhat mangled due to different grammar rules and that not many Peruvians outside the major cities speak any English, meaning a lack of practice.

I tend towards the former, myself.

The lulz?