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Lost Topics #2: Modern Spellbooks

Started by Triple Zero, September 01, 2008, 07:17:17 PM

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The Fundamentalist

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January 10, 2010, 04:29:55 AM
This reminds me of a short story by Cory Doctorow (you know him as the crazy copyleft guy) in which the enlightened Chinese government left out "phonebooks" for Americans, the USA being even more 1984-ish in the story.  The "phonebooks" contained "recipes", basically typed-out pieces of code that allowed circumvention of various fascist devices.  It does seem a lot like a spellbook.

Things like "23 things to do while you're bored" and the thing about making everybody's day a little weirder from Intermittens seem like spellbooks too, but memetic.  Like a list of psychic attack spells.  And then you leave them out...

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#46
January 10, 2010, 05:43:30 AM
Quote from: The Fundamentalist on January 10, 2010, 04:29:55 AM
This reminds me of a short story by Cory Doctorow (you know him as the crazy copyleft guy) in which the enlightened Chinese government left out "phonebooks" for Americans, the USA being even more 1984-ish in the story.  The "phonebooks" contained "recipes", basically typed-out pieces of code that allowed circumvention of various fascist devices.  It does seem a lot like a spellbook.

Things like "23 things to do while you're bored" and the thing about making everybody's day a little weirder from Intermittens seem like spellbooks too, but memetic.  Like a list of psychic attack spells.  And then you leave them out...

The crazy copyleft guy, and that one guy who writes ALL THOSE AWESOME FUCKING NOVELS.

C'mon.

But I like the bit about modern spellbooks.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Bu🤠ns

#47
January 10, 2010, 09:12:04 AM Last Edit: January 10, 2010, 09:15:31 AM by Burns
Quote from: The Fundamentalist on January 10, 2010, 04:29:55 AM
This reminds me of a short story by Cory Doctorow (you know him as the crazy copyleft guy) in which the enlightened Chinese government left out "phonebooks" for Americans, the USA being even more 1984-ish in the story.  The "phonebooks" contained "recipes", basically typed-out pieces of code that allowed circumvention of various fascist devices.  It does seem a lot like a spellbook.

Things like "23 things to do while you're bored" and the thing about making everybody's day a little weirder from Intermittens seem like spellbooks too, but memetic.  Like a list of psychic attack spells.  And then you leave them out...

I don't know if there's a difference.

ETA: I love tfy,s publications for that very reason.  They provoke a nice change in consciousness especially out of blue for some folks like the 23 things to do, pamphlets.
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