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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.

Wiertz the young witch 1857

One of the finest examples of women ever depicted.  I discovered this in reference to "The Self Ecstacy" of Austin Osman Spare in the excellent The Artists Books: 1905-1927 by Dr. W. Wallace published by IHO Books.

u.s. marines: america does not support you

And the massacre of 24 unarmed civilian Iraqis including eleven women and children, the women were killed while trying to shield their children from the hail of American bullets.  America, you are dishonored before the entire world. 

UPDATE: The Independent provides more detail

Liber Al in Second Life

in 4° : in 22° : Anno IVxiv

i feel like a margarita for love and destruction

slowly, drink me up
you see me but you cant touch me
i know your name must be Delicious,
lets go lets go, two strokes two strokes
it is time to say goodbye to Manhattan,
turn me round turn me round,
i love to single you out,
it's never come so close before-
it's never had a chance to come out before,
this is not 1972.  cosmopolitans for strangulation
cigarettes for stress relief, caffeine in an iv,
stick it in me, shout, sing, gangs of infamy
inside

these rune signs wish to come out of me,
how can you hope for harmonys spring song adorn
perfect skin
pulses
a current beneath me, incourglous and desirable
such with an exactitude w.'.

being as such that the science does say,
measures to near perfection
but neither this is or that chthonic agape
with you i know what it feels like to be a god

Some Rune Correspondances

Fehu-
Uruz- Nuit, Isis
Thoriaz- Ra Hoor Khuit, Mars
Ansuz- Jupiter
Radho- Thoth, Mercury
Kenaz-
Gebo- Holy Guardian Angel
Wunjo- ve
Hagalaz-
Naudhiz- Saturn
Isa-
Jera- orlog
Eihwaz- Aiwaz
Perthro-Nornir (wyrd sisters)
Elhaz-
Sowilo- Had
Tyr- Osiris
Berkano- Babalon, Hekate, Norn
Ehwaz- Ra Hoor Khuit, SetHeru
Mannaz- Shu
Laguz- Diana, Moon
Ingwaz- Hadit, phallus
Dagaz-liminal
Othala- Hathoor, kteis

patent filing paper at department of energy gets slashdotted

I followed this link to the most amazing breakthrew in hydrogen energy in at least a decade.  The server is slashdotted, I can already hear the phone calls to homeland security, "Help, I've been slashdotted what do I do?"  "Don't worry, we filter all the communications of the internet, we know who to go after."

It's a safe form of hydrogen gasoline.  link

Edwardian society

Last weekend I was reading AOS The Artists Books 1905-1927 by Dr. W. Wallace of IHO Books.  I was reading in a redwood grove hidden in golden gate park.  I was with T.'. who was meditating.  Some fellows came around on bikes as I was reading.  They pulled a log up to the base of a tree and proceeded to climb it by sheer bark for the first ten feet.  Then they climb, I dunno, ninety feet in the air, sit up on a perch and I can barely see them, I was looking and looking, and then one waves to me.  I waved back.  They started smoking some herb and making owl hooting noises at joggers who, looking  around frantically, undoubtedly wondering how many owls were dieing in the park.  Buy anyway, I heard AOS described by his contemporaries as a young Edwardian and I was very curious about this.

Edwardian certainly came after the much maligned (the incredibly undervalued Victorian era is just as the high level of diversity in the Victorian age like no time before it), but what exactly was it?  I found a wikipedea page describing the years from 1901 to at least 1910.  Needless to say, these were times of unprecedented changes.  Architecture, arts, and science obtained revolutionary periods of growth.  Aliester Crowley was a man of that era.  Liber L is the result of that work.  Liber 418 is it's closure.  This and can be studied while in meditation on the meanings that has in reality. 

Unconsciously, for me the decade prior to the Great War were the finest of Western civilization, which also contain the historical changes of that revolution to affect everything in our lives.  That's pretty powerful magick.  The repercussions of the Edwardian era are in many ways exemplified in the life and death of Jack Parsons.  A man equally ahead of his time.  In 2006 if Jack was still alive in LA he would be the dark shining luminary of Babalon.  I propose that he is equal in status to a Gnostic Saint and certainly no less than the patron Gnostic Saint of LA, the city of angels.

Those guys high in the tree, those two would understand this.