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Control of technology is the source of all power. The System^tm owns (almost) all the scientists and engineers, and thus has (almost) total control over technology. What we need are more scientists, engineers, technologists, etc... who refuse to hand over their knowledge and power to a soulless machine, but instead design technology that helps individuals gain more independence from the man/machine/system.

We do, at least at the software level, have a fairly big movement for that (or something similar).  Linux and free software and cyber hippies and all that.

4 is less than 5, also, 7-2 is 5 and 7+3 is 10 (or 5*2), and 2+3=5 (also the connection to 23).

And I'm now even more confused than before.


Good job.   

Mix acid and large doses of antidepressants maybe?

Though don't the drugs they use to treat Parkinson's cause inhibit one of the chemical receptors schizophrenics have a shortage of?

Wasn't a big part of the point of PD that people has been mistaking all chaos for strife, and all strife for chaos?  Curse of Greyface and all that.  So Eris was goddess of chaos, but got called the goddess of strife, since the Greeks couldn't tell the difference.

How much hoop jumping is going to vary based on the school and class.  IE, one college I looked at was going to make me take biology.  Or you can have a class with a curriculum that has nothing to do with the course in question, it was common in classes at the uni I went to for professors to require community service time.  Occaisionaly this made sense (enviornmental sciences, spend time helping recycling projects) other times the classes marjked as such made no sense at all.

Oooh, been looking for another copy of Apocrypha Discordia for a while.

Not really discordian, but the Nag Hammadi was probably the first thing to make me question my belief structure around the supernatural.

World Inferno Friendship Society. 

I have a strange definition of dancing music though, dunno if other people would actually dance to it.

Huh, maybe a revolution really is coming.  All of those, except maybe number 3, seem either dead on, or very close.

The domestic aspects of #7 mostly aren't true, though I think a lot of people perceive it that way.

Number 5 I also think most people are unaware of, or else just don't care about it.

So the only real thing we need is a bunch of disenfranchised potential leaders.

Actually, I have to wonder how much this applies to democracies, where people seem to go and try to have a revolution with voting, either to be quashed by the establishment, or else elect some schmuck whose not that different from the guy before.

I completely forgot about conspiracy theories.  Can't really see the machine if you think a shadow government or a bunch of guys with skull rings is doing it all.

This is mostly a laundry list of things I've identified as set ups that keep people hooked up to the machine.  They may or may not be anything original in it, mostly trying to collect my thoughts and get people to point out anything I've missed.

The money game, the idea that more money (above and beyond what you actually need)=better.  One of the stronger traps, as most people only manage to get it by being 100% in tune with the machine.  Corporate drones and artistic sellouts.

Conformist rebellion.  Corporate driven subculture, relatively weak trap, keeps people feeding money into the machine, and marks potential troublemakers as outcasts, preventing them from doing any real damage.

Groupthink counterculture.  Political and ideological movements, usually very conformist in goals, in the past you'd see a lot of communists and hippies (according to history books anyway, wasn't around then), these days you seem get libertarians.

Politics, in general.  I think it was the BIP, might have been a forum post here, talked about politics forcing you to choose between freedoms.  Somewhere I have a chart done up of mindsets in a large political forum, showed a very hard line trend towards this kind of thinking.  The two politicians you get to choose from tend to be minimally different outside of key issues as well.

The popularity contest.  All the good cogs in the machine are expected to act in a certain way so everybody will like them.  Caring what other people think, simply for the sake of being liked, seems a fast track to giving up your will to the machine.

entertainment, in general.  TV, alcohol, sex, music, video games, drugs, anything to distract the masses from looking at their plight.  And keep them spending of course.  Trickier one to get ahold than the others, not dangerous in moderation, and not clean cut either, some entertainment can serve to try and wake people up from a cabbage state.  Need not actually be created by the machine.

Religion, in general.  established religion is pretty obvious.  fringe religion is a poor means of control, but seems to at least serve as a distraction.

anybody have anything I missed?

The OP is a bit angry, and brings up a number of points, that while perfectly valid, are politicized, and tend to cause mental blocks to go up.

Whole thing seems to bring up a sense of 'well yes, but not me'.

Edit: Come to think, that's one of the better qualities of the BIP stuff, a definitive message of 'yes, you too'.

So frown power might actually be a tool of the Machine(TM).

It would definitely be a part of the machine.  The point of the post was talking about a way to use the machine to effect a change in it's own programming.  The catch is you need to have an already existing body of people who agree with suppressing the point of view you want to suppress.  The flipside, is that if you already have that group of people, it's probably not that hard to convince them to participate.  IE, low cost to them, they probably don't like the person they're frowning at much anyway, and it plays into The Machine's desire for victims.

Edit: response to  RWHN:  It is a diffusion tactic, meant more (in my mind) at convincing people not to say racist (or whatever) things even if they are racist (or whatever), thus limiting the spread of the targeted idea to the next generation.  Though chipping at casual racism would have been an effect I hadn't considered.

I completely and utterly forgot what I was going to post here....

Ah, right.

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A cat sat scratching at the door, asking to be let out.

"But it is cold outside" said the human.

To which the cat began to meow loudly.

"But you could get hurt."  Said the human.

To which the cat threatened to hork a fhairball on the human's shoes.

"Fine" said the human, who opened the door.

To which the cat ignored, and went into the kitchen.

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Or some such pretentious BS.

I've been thinking a bit about the idea of reprogramming the machine, and thought of something I came across a few years back.

Early in the days of the civil rights movement, there was a concept of frown power.  Whenever anybody said something racist, people were supposed to frown at them pointedly.  Thus exerting a low level social pressure to not be racist, or at least, not admit that you are.

Thoughts?

Edit: I cannot spell, at all.