Correspondent:: "Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa" Date: 26 Feb 2005 11:35:58 -0800
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Mental Illness as a Technology (And Vice Versa--the radio program
hosted by multimedia artist Andrew Octopus--is for anyone who has ever
dreamed of hip-hop obsessed with time travel and spaceships, backwoods
christians working to legalize hemp, file sharers as freedom fighters.
We know that people whom society calls 'crazy' simply have the next
level of mental software (sometimes a little buggy) going on in their
skulls. We know that time travel is possible and the future of rap is
MCs who can rap in more than one language. We are post-copyright
heretics influenced by Hakim Bey and DJ Whoo Kid as well as Larry Flynt
and Ani Difranco .
Check out the show every week,uploaded every Tuesday morning, at
www.radio4all.net
For more about the host, check out www.creativegoals.com/andrewoctopus
Correspondent:: nikolai kingsley Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:02:07 +1100
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> We know that people whom society calls 'crazy' simply have the next
> level of mental software (sometimes a little buggy) going on in their
> skulls.
that's one way of looking at it.
another way is: people whom society calls "crazy" are damaged in a way
that keeps them from playing the primate social game as well as everyone
else. sociopaths who hurt, maim or kill people because they don't feel
compassion for their victims, or guilt for their crimes. schizophrenics
who can't tell their delusions from the real world. paranoids who see
threats where there are none, and who take action to protect themselves
from those threats.
there's a whole bunch of them. i'd say "collect the entire set!", but
it's not as funny when you're forced to deal with them. there are very
few ways of breaking a person's mind that convey any kind of advantage
within the primate social game.
Correspondent:: "Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa" Date: 26 Feb 2005 20:20:26 -0800
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:another way is: people whom society
:calls "crazy" are damaged in a way
:that keeps them from playing the primate social : game as well as
everyone
:else.
Of course, there is really no such thing as "society". So it is
actually about individuals calling other individuals crazy. And the
question is--who are the individuals who are "qualified" to do the
labelling?
I'll tell you this, though--most of the truly innovative and important
things in human history have occurred well outside the then-limits of
the "primate social game". The world owes the "crazy" people who forced
it to accomodate new viewpoints a bigger debt than could ever be
repaid.
When the people are compressed, truncated, amputated, or otherwise
distorted to fit within the frame, rather than the frame expanding to
allow radically different models of thought and action (not necessarily
supporting, but at least allowing without interference or restriction),
you end up with the system we have today. And anyone who is heavily
invested in this system, and sees no potential or reason for change, is
truly ill.
Correspondent:: König Prüße, GfbAEV Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:34:42 GMT
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Andrew Octopus wrote:
>:another way is: people whom society
>:calls "crazy" are damaged in a way
>:that keeps them from playing the primate social : game as well as
>everyone
>:else.
>
>Of course, there is really no such thing as "society". So it is
>actually about individuals calling other individuals crazy. And the
>question is--who are the individuals who are "qualified" to do the
>labelling?
>
>I'll tell you this, though--most of the truly innovative and important
>things in human history have occurred well outside the then-limits of
>the "primate social game". The world owes the "crazy" people who forced
>it to accomodate new viewpoints a bigger debt than could ever be
>repaid.
>
>When the people are compressed, truncated, amputated, or otherwise
>distorted to fit within the frame, rather than the frame expanding to
>allow radically different models of thought and action (not necessarily
>supporting, but at least allowing without interference or restriction),
>you end up with the system we have today. And anyone who is heavily
>invested in this system, and sees no potential or reason for change, is
>truly ill.
>
You are not mentally ill! You are...eh, how you say...
in clinical terms... full of shit as a Christmas turkey!
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:08:48 GMT
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In article ,
König Prüße, GfbAEV wrote:
> You are not mentally ill! You are...eh, how you say...
> in clinical terms... full of shit as a Christmas turkey!
So that's what Hunter S. Thompson's wife said that tipped him over into
pulling the trigger. Everyone has the special phrase that does in the
last straw. Friends, I give you "The Manchurian Gadfly."
--
HellPope Huey
Praise the Lord and pass the gallstones
God appoints our graces
to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
"Every time Jesus shuts a door,
He opens a window."
"Yeah, so we have something to jump out of."
- "Saved!'
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:58:54 -0800
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Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa wrote:
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> When the people are compressed, truncated, amputated, or otherwise
> distorted to fit within the frame, rather than the frame expanding to
> allow radically different models of thought and action (not necessarily
> supporting, but at least allowing without interference or restriction),
> you end up with the system we have today. And anyone who is heavily
> invested in this system, and sees no potential or reason for change, is
> truly ill.
We are post-procrustean. Only the insane are sane.
Correspondent:: "Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa" Date: 27 Feb 2005 06:04:54 -0800
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Finally, the Church of the Subgenius is revealed as the boogzy
CIA-operated front group it's long been rumored to be. With
freethinkers like this, who needs fundamentalists?
Then again, an answer is just a question's way of making more
questions.
Andrew Octopus
www.creativegoals.com/andrewoctopus
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:53:13 -0700
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The Soon to be Late Andrew Octopus wrote:
>
> Finally, the Church of the Subgenius is revealed
> as the boogzy CIA-operated front group it's long
> been rumored to be.
NSA. And now that you know, we will have to kill you.
--
"It is already like a government job,"
he said, "but with goats."
-- Iranian goat smuggler
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:36:14 -0800
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Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa wrote:
>
> Finally, the Church of the Subgenius is revealed as the boogzy
> CIA-operated front group it's long been rumored to be. With
> freethinkers like this, who needs fundamentalists?
>
"The Church of the SubGenius is the boogzy CIA-operated front group it's
long been rumored to be." - The Book of the SubGenius, page two.
Correspondent:: nenslo Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:56:58 -0800
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Andrew Octopus--host of Mental Illness as a Technology and Vice Versa wrote:
>
> Mental Illness as a Technology (And Vice Versa--the radio program
> hosted by multimedia artist Andrew Octopus--is for anyone who has ever
> dreamed of hip-hop obsessed with time travel and spaceships, backwoods
> christians working to legalize hemp, file sharers as freedom fighters.
> We know that people whom society calls 'crazy' simply have the next
> level of mental software (sometimes a little buggy) going on in their
> skulls. We know that time travel is possible and the future of rap is
> MCs who can rap in more than one language. We are post-copyright
> heretics influenced by Hakim Bey and DJ Whoo Kid as well as Larry Flynt
> and Ani Difranco .
Ah, youth. (sighs and rocks gently in the golden sunset, reminiscing)