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This blog is dead.  I'm eternally grateful to the people I was able to meet through it, I hope it continues to inspire others in the future.

Erowid Funding Appeal

I happened upon the Vaults of Erowind today and noticed an appeal for funds I thought I would share.  The link is at http://www.erowid.org/general/about/ and if you have some money you can donate this is an excellent way to say thanks to a service that has kept the net an interesting place since 1997.

Link Collective

I've started collecting some of my more interesting online finds at http://del.icio.us/watchfiend

Support for Robert Anton Wilson

There is an appeal for friends of RAW to contribute to help him during a difficult battle with ongoing medical costs.  New Falcon Press will be donating 7% of all online sales during the month of October to Bob's fund. 

Additionally you can help through a donation to Bob directly to the Paypal account olgaceline@gmail.com

You can also send a check payable to Robert Anton Wilson to

Dennis Berry c/o Futique Trust
P.O. Box 3561
Santa Cruz, CA  95063.

One year in California

Today I have been in California for one whole year.  While looking back over this year many of my most long standing goals have been realized and others are on the brink of being realized.  I've come a long way in the past year.  I am very greatful for the people that have made this year one of the most memorable yet: I would not be who I am today without you. 

Massive American Army Across the globe

Okay I find it a bit disturbing that their are American armies in huge numbers mobalizd in the Pacific, Afghanastan and Iraq.  This is not business as usual.  If North Korea shoots a missle and Bush makes the decision to shoot it down with a missle system that might not even work you have World War III.  If Iran should invade Iraq or Syria attack Israel, you have a world wide conflagulation.  China and Russia would get involved somehow.  We are headed toward World War III; may I be judged by history: may I pray that I'm wrong.  I hope this prayer brings in it's little way, more joy, love, and laughter in your life.  Things could be going a little bit crazy for a while.

I havent been gone without a good reason

I have some great projects I'm working on and I'm really excited about sharing them with you on these pages.  Important annoucement soon...

Let me answer that Mr. Long

You asked where is the current generation of young people to respond to the crisis of American culture.  I will take the priviliage to answer you Mr. Long, if my twenty four years of age doesnt disqualify me from responding.  My generation wants to be the anti culture (that is not a culture) called hip hop.  The only requirements for joining this society, and I take it you have seen many examples already, is to have a vocabulary no larger than what can be spoken in a dozen key phrases.  Intelligence is distrusted, books are a forign country, and the My Lai massacre sounds more like an album of a new rap album than a real event.   The problem is with priorities.

As you graduated in 1968 Mr. Long you are a part of the crash and burn that affected the generation of young people in the mid 70s and 80s.  It's my opinion that since that time, and over a period of two decades, the shadow of being hip has stymied more lives than any previous generation in American history. Granted, one cannot get very far in the world at large with such a narrow perception of life  in a culture that dead ends at CD sales and music videos.  But that seems just fine with the majority of older Americans anyway.  What is left in the cultural klaidescope are isolated individuals and small groups that made the surprised success of the WTO protests in 1999.  It is my opinion that the broad spectrum that were represented by that manifestation was consumed by the twin towers on 9/11 and its aftermath.  As public opinion has turned away from the Bush agenda this year, and I know we are going to disagree on this one, and thats okay, the last thing on Earth I want is a free ride for the Democratic party. There are numerous historical examples to suggest that the Democrats in public office will be even more Calvinist than there predecessors.

Granted, I'm very upset about the wiretapping rape of the Consitiution, the insane destruction of  habitat Earth, the Ailto decision against freedom of speech, the appointing of a military general to head the civilian CIA, the suffering Americans have brought upon Iraqis, and all the other reasons to avoid the news. 

Where are the revolutionaries, the radicals of America against war and civil discrimination willing to get arrested or worse for what they believe in?   

Answer: Isolated and demure, with some exceptions of course.  I was confidant up until last year to see the kernel of a new social justice movement, however these days, I'm not quite sure how I feel about what my generation is thinking about the present.  Truth be told, I haven't seen evidence that young people think of much else other than technology and who's on myspace.  I admit I may be ahead of the curve on that one, but I doubt it.  I sense in conscious people a wait and see, let it all blow over, pro isolationist stance on current affairs.  Of course that doesn't do anyone any good, but it's more convenient than doing anything.  Spoon feed complacency, reward good behavior, and attack anyone that disagrees with you as a terrorist is the predominant mindset of Capital Hill.  I will contend with Wired magazines reviews of military industrial complex since September 11th 2001 up to and including the present day glorify the militeristic aspect of our society, but I'm not going to harp on that.  I remember 2002 as the year you could not speak against the Bush administration.  Same in 2003.  Then some Michigander made a movie and all the sudden it was okay to question the Bush administration if only in private, and never publicly.  If you were a Democratic liberal you do what the bosses tell you to do and follow the party line.  You dont act for yourself, you let a Clinton or Kennedy speak for you.  This is certainly not 1968. The Democratic party then as now is a token oppositional group.  If anything it's 1965 and 1984, the year following the Tonkin Gulf incident propelled us into the last orgy of death. 1984 is of course Orwellian, Reaganist, and the release of the first Macintosh.  If my generation are freshman in the school of liberty, we're failing badly.

I am an optimist about all this however.  It will only get worse before it gets better.

I highly recommend reading Tony Long's editoral at

http://wired.com/news/columns/0,70980-0.html?tw=wn_index_27

the exact death of the u.s. constitution

I think in a hundred years from now when scholars study this era we will assurdly point to the death and gradual dismantling of the Constitution altogether with the name of this Naval base:

Michael Bloombergs plan to enslave us all

This link shows the Republicans final solution to cripple what few civil libertys remain for all Americans.  I thought I would ask a friend of mine about how he feels about such an idea.

"The concept that anyone, much less the already overreaching US government,
would be allowed to keep a database of individuals DNA is as Orwellian as
it gets.  The Social Security Administration has already far surpassed its
mandate in its activities, and others who use SSN's for identification
purposes, i.e. businesses and non-SSA government agencies, are corrupting
and exploiting a system purportedly put into place to provide for the
"average-joe" who could not afford or did not have access to funds to
invest into their retirement.  This trend is not acceptable.  Not only is
DNA printing an entire population absurd, but it is a frontal assault upon
the most crucial civil liberty of personal privacy.  I would call for a
widespread civil disobedience action consisting of refusal to use the
Social Security system in protest of Bloombergs crack-smoking
meglomaniacal "vision" of a police state future."

--Shogunx

Heres to you, Conservatives.