sprockets & widgets

[East Coast Hustle]

can you feel it coming? do you smell a change upon the wind?

NO.

you DON'T.

you CAN'T.

you've deluded yourself with dreams of a grand re-awakening, a massive paradigm shift of the collective social conscience. You've convinced yourself that someone (maybe even you) will come along and cast down the Powers That Be(tm) that are in control of the MACHINE(tm).

You're WRONG.

there are no Powers That Be(tm). The MACHINE(tm) deposed them long ago, or perhaps they just became obsolete, victims of their own efficiency. You see, long ago the MACHINE(tm) became far too large to be overseen by a conspiracy, or even by a network of several different conspiracies. The MACHINE(tm) is no longer under the control of mankind, rather it has become an entity unto itself. A blind, uncaring juggernaut of assimilation and mediocrity. The MACHINE(tm) feeds off of the static nature of humanity. Any real agents of change are percieved as dangerous mutations, to be neutralized and disposed of as quickly as possible. Yes, that includes you. And yes, that also includes me. Why do you think I constantly exhort YOU to become an agent of change? I've got my own schemes and machinations to that end, but I want to see the manner in which the MACHINE(tm) deals with you before I finalize MY game plan. You see, to be effective as a catalyst, one has to confront the problem of scale. You CAN NOT bring the MACHINE(tm) down. You can't even slow it down. What you can do is very slowly and unobtrusively begin to rearrange the basic components. We will refer to these as "widgets" and "sprockets". If widget A and sprocket B combine to exert societal influence C on the stinking morass known collectively as "humanity", then it stands to reason that the MACHINE(tm) can be reprogrammed at a very basic level and in very small increments. You waste your time dreaming of how to effect such a change on a global, national, or regional scale (the impossibility of which, I might add, keeps you in your perpetual state of blissful apathy), dreaming of assembling a group of like-minded fellows who will march with you to the very gates of the ivory tower whereupon those who have misled and exploited you will be cast down upon the parapets.

well guess what?

YOU ARE the one who has misled and exploited you. You have overlooked the most obvious solution, the most effective solution, the only possible solution.


kill yourself, fuck the body.









Just kidding.

maybe.

but seriously, this is what I have come to believe is the true spirit of the oft-misused phrase "we must stick apart": we cannot effect a large scale change, and if we make a serious attempt we WILL be neutralized. Instead, each and every one of us should make a conscious effort to effect a small reprogramming of the MACHINE(tm) in a manner that affects us and our immediate surroundings. keep the mutation small, and give it a chance to become effectively contagious. If we all effect a change on our own paradigm (this DOES require some effort, being a bliss-ninny doesn't count), there WILL be an eventual overlap, at which point the large scale change which we have hoped to effect all along will be impossible to stop.

(insert witty closing tagline here)

[Zurtok Khan]

*clap*

Great rant.

I think you might even be right about the whole "stick apart" thing too...

[Cain]

I would answer this but

a) I tend not to answer unless I can add something to the discussion, and
b) the only thing I can add is that I think my liver is dying.

[LMNO]

Indeed.  I was contemplating the "stick apart" meme, and decided that what it meant was very similar to terrorist cells.  if each cell has a common goal, yet is oblivious to the other's means & methods, then the "strategic movements" become impossible to decipher.

[Cain]

*cough*globalguerrillanetworks*cough*, *cough*OpenSourceChaosrant*cough*

[fluffy]

this ech is exhibiting some promise
copied into the archive file on my hard drive

[LHX]

'stick apart' is starting to look more and more like a trick

it was designed to get you close

but you cant put the finishing touches on the job by sticking apart


by 'sticking apart' you are still afforded the comfort of a certain amount of privacy

i get to read all this shit that you type on line

but how the fuck am i supposed to know that it isnt the cock of leviathan that is propping you up to your keyboard



and we all know about the masks that the sinister folks wore on scooby-doo



with this stick apart shit - this just becomes a whole bunch of people who got the deal figured out but are still at the stage of the
'no - you try it first'
'no - you try it first'
mentality



to finish the shit off
we would have to tie ourselves together
do the job
and then un-tie ourselves and vow never to speak about this shit again
(or even feel compelled to talk about this shit anyway - because there would be no point
we would be done)


the trick is not
'kill yourself, fuck the body'

but more like
shit yourself
in front of an audience

and if you are in the audience
volunteer to be next in line

[East Coast Hustle]

nope, you didn't get it. try again.

[fluffy]

ooooooo...

it's a game show!

can i spin the wheel?
please?

[LHX]

fffffffffuck

i am slow

[LHX]

this website is single-handedly helping me lose the ability to pay attention to anything other than my day dreams

thank you
fuck you very much

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

*sigh*

Anyways... Oh fuck it, nice rant Turd.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Great rant.

But I still think it's funnier to go down swinging.

To be precise, for OTHER people to go down swinging.

[LMNO]

To LHX:

Cross reference this rant with the Quantum Inseparability Principle, and see what happens.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Way to go!

Nice piece of work.

Sometimes though, I think that what the Machine has done is actually funny. We only have ourselves to blame.