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  You have found a way to bypass your limited human senses and interact directly with your environment, without preconcieved notions, political ideology, religious, cultural or socio-economic beliefs inteferring?  I'm impressed, but skeptical.

It's not easy and I'm no expert, but it's simple.  The Buddhists do it all the time.  (Have you ever had a perfect moment?) Or if you prefer, commune with Eris' sister.  But who would want to do that?  I LIKE some of my notions, even though I KNOW they are flawed.  They are only tools to make things easier.  Finding, modifying and discarding them while monitoring their "interference" is tricky, though, and therein lies the challenge....

First I pet, then I punch. Then I pet.

Please don't misunderstand.  BIP is astounding.  The world seems to need it.

But like the bible, it bears the message "You are ill.  Betcha didn't even know how.  Here's the cure."  Which targets a large audience and maximizes recruiting numbers.  Fine.  All I'm saying is that some of us have already had our psychic inoculations.  What you call "dark" and "gloomy" we brush our teeth with. We don't need some bitch to show US how to toss apples. Why should WE pay attention?

Granted, you probably have other sales pitches, I just haven't found 'em yet.  Bob makes a good one.  Maybe I should stop criticizing.  It's just that once I see something so profoundly cool as what you guys are doing I just wanna fuck with it to see where the flaws are...

BTW, 000, really? "...there's NO escape from the BIP..."? Are you in danger of being mentally imprisoned by your own prison break metaphor?  Maybe it's time for a new optometrist.  Your old one might be sneaking pink dye into your lenses.  (KIDDING! Sheesh...)
     

Thanks for the Barnum bit, Cramulus.  It brings to my initially dichotic understanding (the first filter I'm using to assimilate notions) the opposite of what Barnum did.  Granted, curiosity gets 'em in the door and money out of their pockets, but what anti-curiousities would Barnum use on the competition?  What is it that drives people away from an otherwise good show?  Should we use taint weapons of mild confusion on the machines of Anti-Slack?  And what circuses are we all missing just because someone puked at the entrance?

Holy Crap, so happy I feel like that girl in the Bumble bee suit in the Blind Melon video.  My existential/philosophic search leads me to YOU dweebs, the ones the Machiavellian types make fun of....Damn its TIME TO DANCE!!!!!

The BIP is a wonderful intro for the unwary, and thanks to all involved for the brain candy!  It's a metaphor of imprisonment, intuitive to the Matrix generation, and it works as a mindsmasher.  The metaphor, however, is only one perspective in a complicated world.  Another view---It's not so much that we are in a prison of our own unintentional creation, but rather the Gods scattered millions of multi-function tools and no instruction manuals.  Everyone has been using trans-dimensional network gateway key cards as Bible bookmarks, using Pepsi bottles as potato smashers.  Monkey see, monkey do. (I'll work on that image--it might make a good comic) The biggest problem I have with using the prison viewpoint to convey the message is that it preys on our fears.  Now granted, that's an effective recruitment strategy for the Church (hell is such a FUN motivator!) but should it really be the cover story for a movement of free thinkers? 

Dear Aunty BadBeast,
How in the heck am I supposed to keep order in the workplace?  For every-ones' sake Higher Management has decreed smoking to be "...an infectious, subversive, unauthorized habit that steals souls and lowers productivity."  As office manager and enforcer of policy, should I un-employ offenders, or just invent a merit/demotion system?  Should I embarrassingly Fa-breeze these ungrateful schmucks? 
Side Question: Can we conduct urine analysis on the homeless?  Think of the job stimulus THAT would create!!!
Sincerely (oops, just typed the word "Sin")  The Boss

Is the comic a good read?  If so I'm the old fashioned type...I think I'll try to find a print copy or two.  The comic would probably make the most romantic of gifts for that special Discordian sweetie I'm destined to find...or maybe really hip kindling.  Hmm....