The Olition of Play (Was: Re: the Abolition of Work)

Chris Koenigsberg (dryfoo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri, 23 Sep 88 11:45:09 EDT

} Re gossip, I'm one of very few who've had enough friendly contact with
} Bob Black to understand some of what happened with the SPA people.
} Though he didn't phrase it this way, I think Bob freaked out during a
} beer party upon realizing that the SPA people he drank with every week
} were even more determined to ignore his problem than he was. He
} poured beer over Fishmonger and several others, his girlfriend left
} him, and that idiot feud began. $tang never turned on him; he just
} knows an alcoholic paranoid when he loves one. I'm glad the feud is
} finally in Bob's past and I look forward to his work.

Hey! C'mon, careful here! Watch what you're doing! The above is
clear, linear, well-written, and understandable. It is persuasive,
non-obscurantist, and puts the facts of this whole stupid feud in a
clear light. It ends rumors, and won't start any new arguments by being
snide or ambiguous. I'm not sure that sort of thing is appropriate
here. Please be more careful the next time.

Anyway, I've enjoyed what I've read of Black's, and I hope he'll
continue to write. Who else would "say `Yo Mama!' to Dada"?

On a general theme: I don't have much patience for feuds between people
who ought to be cooperating -- that grudge feeding grudge thing. Do
Black and Fishmonger disagree more with each other than they do with
Authoritarians like Oliver North, Phlyllis Schlafly, or "Gee!" Gordon
Liddy?

Paranoia is an occupational disease among Conspiracy Hackers,
NeuroMetamagicians, and Political Exposeurs -- in other words, us.
Maybe the CIA, the LaRouchianistas, the Amway Salesmen, the Christian
Anti-Fun Dementalists, et cetera aren't out to stop us by driving us
crazy -- but we're doing their work for them when we start tearing each
other up.

Our vital juices may still protect us, even when our hard-won sense
of innate superiority fails. Strong convulsive belly laughter, or
timeless tantric sex both break up paranoia molecules in the human
broodstream. I will recommend two books. Dr. Levity has copies of a
periodical called (I think) "Re-Search" and one volume is about pranks,
pranksters, and some of the best practical jokes in modern times. If
you don't laugh out loud while reading it, you seriously need to see a
pshaman. I am currently reading book II in Robert Anton Wilson's
out-of-print Schrodinger's Cat trilogy -- the Trick Top Hat. It is
entertaining, and has some inspiring and hot sex scenes.

So let's go back to driving Them crazy instead. Operation Mindfuck is
still rolling. Remember, "Satan Moves You To See This Want"

plutonium Ft. Bragg air-drop psychosurgery psychotronic domestic
disruption nuclear revenge riot babylon Kennedy samizdat schizophrenia
DES terrorist sex magick simulation poisons Exocet spy strategic ritual
disinformation COMSEC surrealism surveillance ecstasy GRU tattoo terror

Take two and call me in the morning.

-- dr foo

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