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DESTRUCTION....CREATIVITY....DESTRUCTION
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......HÄVITYS.....PAKOVOIMA...PAKOTUSVOIMA....FANAATTISUUS.

Ylläoleva on yksinkertaistettu kaavio minkä avulla uskoa voi käyttää hyödyksi pelkän kaiken kieltämisen sijasta.

Kyseinen menetelmä perustuu kaaosmagiasta tuttuun "nothing is true, everything is permitted" -ajatustavalle.

Tosiusko aiheuttaa vähintään jonkinasteisen placebo-efektin vaikkei uskolla olisi mitään tekemistä ympäröivän todellisuuden kanssa. Placebo vaikuttaa pakotusvoimaan, joka muokkaa maailmankäsitystä uskon mukaisesti. Voi siis ajatella, että uskomalla tosissaan hyödyllisiin asioihin, voidaan aiheuttaa hyödyllisiä asioita. Vaarana on, että tosiusko on vaikea korvata vaihtoehtoisella uskolla, jos tilanne vaatii sitä ja se johtaa pahimmillaan fanaattisuuteen.

Epäuskon ja Tosiuskon yhdistelmällä saadaan fuusio (confusion, koska totuus muuttuu epävarmaksi mutta kuitenkin toimii niin kuin usko olemassa olevista ristiriidoista huolimatta). Epäuskon ja tosiuskon fuusiota voi käyttää monipuolisemmin kuin pelkkää tosiuskoa. Uskosta pitäisi pyrkiä tekemään niin vahva kuin mahdollista kuitenkin niin että vastapaino, joka on epäusko, voi tarvittaessa korvata uskon hyödyllisemmällä uskolla.

Epäusko yksinään voi aiheuttaa fuusion muiden ympäröivien mahdollisuuksien kanssa (mm. todennäköisyyksien laskennalla) mutta siitä puuttuu placeboefekti. Se voi johtaa välinpitämättömään ajattelutapaan ja hävittää osan voimavaroista. Toisaalta sen avulla voi hävittää kaikki todellisuusrakenteet päästä ja kehittyä niin että yksikertaisille usko-manipulaatioille ei ole enää tarvetta.

Järki on muodostunut monelle melkein automaattiseksi päätöksenteon mekanismiksi mutta huolellinen järjenkäyttö on harvinaista ja sokea järkeen luottaminen saattaa johtaa tarpeettomiin ongelmiin ja sotkuihin. Järki ei ole välttämättä tarpeeksi objektiivinen mekanismi, jotta se pystyisi synnyttämään tarpeeksi varmoja ja hyödyllisiä tuloksia eikä tuloksen vääristyneisyyttä usein huomata.

Mielipiteet, tieto, oletukset, houkutukset, vakiintuneet tavat, ennakkoluulot yms. vaikuttaa päätöksentekoon niin että varsinainen järkiprosessi saattaa jäädä väliin. Näin käy esim. jos jotain vaihtoehtoa kohtaan tunnetaan suurta halua tai himoa; tai periaatteet estävät muiden vaihtoehtojen toteuttamisen; tai uskotaan tai luullaan että yksi vaihtoehto on ylivoimainen muihin nähden. Valinta saattaa tuntua järkevältä vaikka päätöksenteossa ei tarvitse käyttää varsinaista järkeä.

Järkeilyyn perustuva päätöksenteko tapahtuu mm. arvostelemalla ja vertailemalla eri vaihtoehtoja. Arvostelu voidaan luokitella järkeilyksi, jos se tehdään järkiperustein. Johtopäätös on yleensä järkevämpi, jos kaikki subjektiiviset tuntemukset karsitaan pois ja päätöksenteko tehdään tieteellisesti. Ilman subjektiivisia mittareita tapahtuva vaihtoehtojen arvosteleminen johtaa yleensä järkevään lopputulokseen. Subjektiiviset mittarit ovat harvoin tarpeeksi aitoja tai tarkkoja että niitä kannattaisi käyttää. Yleensä ne ovat vääristyneitä ja ohjelmallisia rajoittimia. Ne saattavat kuitenkin sekoittua huomaamatta päätöksentekoprosessiin. Ne kannattaa järkeistää, jos niitä halutaan välttämättä käyttää järjellisen päätöksenteon apuvälineinä.

Ennen lopputuloksen toteuttamisvaihetta vastaan tulee kuitenkin mahdollisia esteitä:

1. Agentti voi toimia järkevän johtopäätöksen vastaisesti vaikka hän haluaisi toimia sen mukaan ja tietää että hänen kannattaisi toimia sen mukaan (akrasia). Syynä tähän voi olla motivaation puute, laiskuus, välinpitämättömyys, pelko ja masokismi

2. Agentti voi toimia niin kuin uskoo olevan oikein, vaikka hänen tekisikin mieli toimia järkevän johtopäätöksen mukaisesti mm. moraalikäsityksen tai epävarmuuden takia

3. Agentti tekee kompromissin niin että lopputulos ei sodi liikaa tunteiden yms. kanssa

4. Agentti pakotetaan toimimaan järkevän johtopäätöksen vastaisesti

Vaikka järkeilyyn perustuvassa päätöksenteossa toimittaisi mahdollisimman huolellisesti, lopputulos saattaa silti muuttua hyödyttömäksi. Tieto on aina puutteellista eikä objektiivisien ominaisuuksien vertailussa pysty huomioimaan kaikkia asioita ja virhearviointeja syntyy helposti. Lisäksi, järkiprosessi on usein tarpeettoman hidasta, vaivalloista ja tylsää.

Järjellisen päätöksenteon sijasta voidaan voidaan käyttää sattumaa. Agentti voi toteuttaa heti ensimmäisenä mieleen tulevan ajatuksen. Tai käyttää automaattikirjoitusta listan kirjoittamiseen ja arpoa siitä vaihtoehto. Automaattikirjoitettuun listaan tulee yleensä muutama vaihtoehto mitä ei missään nimessä halua tehdä. Ne voi pyyhkiä yli mutta listaan kannattaa jättää joku epämiellyttävältä tuntuva vaihtoehto, siltä varalta että vaihtoehto on epämiellyttävä vain sen takia luullaan että se on epämukava.

Sattuma on nopea ja järjetön menetelmä joka saa agentin ajautumaan erikoisiin ja haastaviin tilanteisiin joihin on vaikea sotkeutua järkeilemällä. Se saattaa aiheuttaa hyödyllisiä vahinkoja. Sattuma laajentaa kokemusmahdollisuuksia ja tuhoaa vakiintuneita käsityksiä. Se on objektiivinen päätöksenteon väline mutta sen käyttö vaatii rohkeutta eikä sitä yleensä kannata käyttää joka tilanteessa.

Intuitio on kiistelty ja vähän tutkittu päätöksenteon väline. Se sekoitetaan usein tunteisiin minne se hukkuu. Väitetään, että intuitio on tiedostomattoman tahdon kommunikointiväline ja ajaa ihmisen tilanteisiin missä kaikki palaset loksahtavat kohdalleen. Niin kuin planeetta kiertoradalla. Järkkymätön, itsenäinen, mieletön, jyräävä voima.

Intuition tuottamat ajatukset muodostuvat mielen tiedostomattomissa syövereissä. Mekanismi synnyttää mm. oivalluksia ja vastauksia mieltä askarruttaviin kysymyksiin. Sen käyttö ei vaadi järjen käyttöä. Teoriassa, jos intuitiota käytetään päätöksenteossa, se tulostaa optimaalisen lopputuloksen ilman vaivannäköä. Tietoinen prosessointiteho on tehoton verrattuna tiedostomattomaan. Lisäksi, tietoisuus ei pääse häiritsemään tuloksen objektiivisuutta.

Ongelmana on, kuinka käyttää intuitiota? Järjen käytön vähentäminen voi auttaa intuitiota saamaan merkittävämmän aseman ajatusprosesseissa. Samalla turhat järjelliset esteet vähentyvät. Mitä enemmän intuitiota käyttää hyödyksi, sitä vahvemmaksi sen ääni muuttuu.

Jos ajatellaan että intuitio syntyy tahdon vaikutuksesta, sitä voidaan osittain ohjailla vaikuttamalla tiedostomattomaan tahtoon. Eli jos käytetään jotain itsepsyykkausmenetelmää, joka manipuloi tahdon tahtomaan tiettyä asiaa tai toimimaan tietyllä tavalla, se tahtoon sulautuva asia saadaan automaattisesti läpi käyttämällä intuitiota päätöksenteossa. Menetelmä vaatii, että haluttu asia, millä muokataan tahtoa, repressoidaan (unohdetaan ja tukahdutetaan) sen jälkeen kun se on uponnut tiedostomattomaan tahtoon, niin että se jää muhimaan mielen syövereihin ja nousee intuition voimalla silloin kun tilanne vaatii sitä. Intuitio ohittaa järjen niin että tiedostetun mielen haluama (mutta tahallisesti unohdettu) asia toteutuu tahdon voimalla.

"Domestic Extremism Lexicon"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/05/homeland-pulled-back-extremism-dictionary/

Kuulostaa aika vainoharhaiselta. Ekstremistejä joka puolella. Kaikki ovat tappavan vaarallisia!


The 11-page lexicon document lists terms from A through W, beginning with "aboveground," which is defined as extremist groups or people who "operate overtly and portray themselves as law-abiding," and ending with "white supremacist movement." The listing notes six categories of white supremacists: Neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, Christian identity, racist skinhead, Nordic mysticism and Aryan prison gangs.

The latest report to become public, the lexicon on domestic extremism, stated that people involved with anti-immigration extremism "may have been known to advocate or engage in criminal activity and plot acts of violence and terrorism to advance their extremist goals."

"They are highly critical of the U.S. government's response to illegal immigration and oppose government programs that are designed to extend 'rights' to illegal aliens, such as issuing driver's licenses or national identification cards and providing in-state tuition, medical benefits, or public education."

"Cuban independence extremism" is defined as those who "do not recognize the legitimacy of the Communist Cuban Government and who attempt to subvert it through acts of violence, mainly within the U.S."

Mexican separatism defines those would advocate an armed struggle to take back Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, the report stated.

Environmental extremism is described as those "who use violence to end what they perceive as the degradation of the natural environment by humans."

And, the "tax-resistance movement" is described as "groups or individuals who vehemently believe taxes violate their constitutional rights."

The criteria in the listings are a willingness to advocate or engage in criminal activity or plot acts of terrorism.

The report lists traditional extremist groups, such as racist skinheads or lone terrorists who might plot against the U.S., as well as some obscure groups. Racial Nordic mysticism is listed as an ideology adopted by many white supremacist prison gangs "who embrace a Norse mythological religion, such as Odinism or Asatru."

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http://www.anus.com/zine/articles/prozak/extremism/finnish-language.html

http://www.netliberty.net/dreamachine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamachine

En oo saanu vieläkään rakennettua kunnollista:(
Tarvis 78rpm levysoittimen

Pääsin paikkaamaan yleisivistystä Baader-Meihhof Komplexillä, joka on ehkä 2000-luvun paras elokuva. Eniten tykkäsin sen kylmästä puolueettomuudesta vaikka tärkeitä faktoja jätetään kertomatta.

leffa-arvostelu:
http://www.murros.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=611&Itemid=121

http://www.voima.fi/content/view/full/2791

http://plaza.fi/ajassa/kolinaa-panuhuoneesta/baader-meinhof-kompleksi-eli-vanhan-hyvan-ajan-terrorismi

Tietoa RAF:sta:

http://www.baader-meinhof.com/

http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punainen_armeijakunta

http://yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=2&ag=11&t=101&a=6425

Kirjoja:

http://www.hs.fi/kirjat/artikkeli/V%C3%A4kivalta+oli+harkittu+askel+Meinhofille/HS20071023SI1KU017jl

En ole vielä päässyt salaliittoihin asti. Mukana on kuitenkin hämäriä kytköksiä Natoon ja vahvoja epäilyjä että DDR olisi tukenut suoraan RAF:ää.

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The first message
"What the hell am I doing here?"
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Same connotations as rocket science or nuclear physics of brain surgery fell to brokers.
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INTRODUCTION: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes.html
2: http://pizzaseo.blogspot.com/2008/12/memetics-open-questions.html

Memetic Lexicon

Author: Glenn Grant 1990
HTMLized by Anders Sandberg 1994
Altered and expanded by David McFadzean 1995-1999
Translated to spanish by José Mª Filgueiras 2000


AUTO-TOXIC: Dangerous to itself. Highly auto-toxic memes are usually self-limiting because they promote the destruction of their hosts (such as the Jim Jones meme; any military indoctrination meme-complex; any "martyrdom" meme). (GMG) (See exo-toxic.)

BAIT: The part of a meme-complex that promises to benefit the host (usually in return for replicating the complex). The bait usually justifies, but does not explicitly urge, the replication of a meme-complex. (Donald Going, quoted by Hofstadter.) Also called the reward co-meme. (In many religions, "Salvation" is the bait, or promised reward; "Spread the Word" is the hook. Other common bait co-memes are "Eternal Bliss", "Security", "Prosperity", "Freedom".) (See hook; threat; infection strategy.)

BELIEF-SPACE: Since a person can only be infected with and transmit a finite number of memes, there is a limit to their belief space (Henson). Memes evolve in competition for niches in the belief-space of individuals and societies.

CENSORSHIP: Any attempt to hinder the spread of a meme by eliminating its vectors. Hence, censorship is analogous to attempts to halt diseases by spraying insecticides. Censorship can never fully kill off an offensive meme, and may actually help to promote the meme's most virulent strain, while killing off milder forms.

CO-MEME: A meme which has symbiotically co-evolved with other memes, to form a mutually-assisting meme-complex. Also called a symmeme. (GMG)

CULT : A sociotype of an auto-toxic meme-complex, composed of membots and/or memeoids. (GMG) Characteristics of cults include: self-isolation of the infected group (or at least new recruits); brainwashing by repetitive exposure (inducing dependent mental states); genetic functions discouraged (through celibacy, sterilization, devalued family) in favor of replication (proselytizing); and leader-worship ("personality cult"). (Henson.)

DORMANT: Currently without human hosts. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph system and the Gnostic Gospels are examples of "dead" schemes which lay dormant for millennia in hidden or untranslatable texts, waiting to re-activate themselves by infecting modern archeologists. Some obsolete memes never become entirely dormant, such as Phlogiston theory, which simply mutated from a "belief" into a "quaint historical footnote."

EARWORM: "A tune or melody which infects a population rapidly." (Rheingold); a hit song. (Such as: "Don't Worry, Be Happy".) (f. German, ohrwurm=earworm.)

EXO-TOXIC: Dangerous to others. Highly exo-toxic memes promote the destruction of persons other than their hosts, particularly those who are carriers of rival memes. (Such as: Nazism, the Inquisition, Pol Pot.) (See meme-allergy.) (GMG)

HISTAMEME: See vaccime. (Morgan)

HOOK : The part of a meme-complex that urges replication. The hook is often most effective when it is not an explicit statement, but a logical consequence of the meme's content. (Hofstadter) (See bait, threat.)

HOST : A person who has been successfully infected by a meme. See infection, membot, memeoid.

IDEOSPHERE: The realm of memetic evolution, as the biosphere is the realm of biological evolution. The entire memetic ecology. (Hofstadter.) The health of an ideosphere can be measured by its memetic diversity.

IMMUNO-DEPRESSANT: Anything that tends to reduce a person's memetic immunity. Common immuno-depressants are: travel, disorientation, physical and emotional exhaustion, insecurity, emotional shock, loss of home or loved ones, future shock, culture shock, isolation stress, unfamiliar social situations, certain drugs, loneliness, alienation, paranoia, repeated exposure, respect for Authority, escapism, and hypnosis (suspension of critical judgment). Recruiters for cults often target airports and bus terminals because travelers are likely to be subject to a number of these immuno-depressants. (GMG) (See cult.)

IMMUNO-MEME: See vaccime. (GMG)

INFECTION: 1. Successful encoding of a meme in the memory of a human being. A memetic infection can be either active or inactive. It is inactive if the host does not feel inclined to transmit the meme to other people. An active infection causes the host to want to infect others. Fanatically active hosts are often membots or memeoids. A person who is exposed to a meme but who does not remember it (consciously or otherwise) is not infected. (A host can indeed be unconsciously infected, and even transmit a meme without conscious awareness of the fact. Many societal norms are transmitted this way.) (GMG)

2. Some memeticists have used `infection' as a synonym for `belief' (i.e. only believers are infected, non-believers are not). However, this usage ignores the fact that people often transmit memes they do not "believe in." Songs, jokes, and fantasies are memes which do not rely on "belief" as an infection strategy.

INFECTION STRATEGY: Any memetic strategy which encourages infection of a host. Jokes encourage infection by being humorous, tunes by evoking various emotions, slogans and catch-phrases by being terse and continuously repeated. Common infection strategies are "Villain vs. victim", "Fear of Death", and "Sense of Community". In a meme-complex, the bait co-meme is often central to the infection strategy. (See replication strategy; mimicry.) (GMG)

MEMBOT: A person whose entire life has become subordinated to the propagation of a meme, robotically and at any opportunity. (Such as many Jehovah's Witnesses, Krishnas, and Scientologists.) Due to internal competition, the most vocal and extreme membots tend to rise to top of their sociotype's hierarchy. A self-destructive membot is a memeoid. (GMG)

MEME: (pron. `meem') A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. (Wheelis, quoted in Hofstadter.) (See meme-complex).

MEME-ALLERGY: A form of intolerance; a condition which causes a person to react in an unusually extreme manner when exposed to a specific semiotic stimulus, or `meme-allergen.' Exo-toxic meme-complexes typically confer dangerous meme-allergies on their hosts. Often, the actual meme-allergens need not be present, but merely perceived to be present, to trigger a reaction. Common meme-allergies include homophobia, paranoid anti-Communism, and porno phobia. Common forms of meme-allergic reaction are censorship, vandalism, belligerent verbal abuse, and physical violence. (GMG)

MEME-COMPLEX: A set of mutually-assisting memes which have co-evolved a symbiotic relationship. Religious and political dogmas, social movements, artistic styles, traditions and customs, chain letters, paradigms, languages, etc. are meme-complexes. Also called an m-plex, or scheme (Hofstadter). Types of co-memes commonly found in a scheme are called the: bait; hook; threat; and vaccime. A successful scheme commonly has certain attributes: wide scope (a paradigm that explains much); opportunity for the carriers to participate and contribute; conviction of its self-evident truth (carries Authority); offers order and a sense of place, helping to stave off the dread of meaninglessness. (Wheelis, quoted by Hofstadter.)

MEMEOID, or MEMOID: A person "whose behavior is so strongly influenced by a [meme] that their own survival becomes inconsequential in their own minds." (Henson) (Such as: Kamikazes, Shiite terrorists, Jim Jones followers, any military personnel). hosts and membots are not necessarily memeoids. (See auto-toxic; exo-toxic.)

MEMEPLEX: See meme-complex.

MEME POOL: The full diversity of memes accessible to a culture or individual. Learning languages and traveling are methods of expanding one's meme pool.

MEMETIC: Related to memes.

MEMETIC DRIFT: Accumulated mis-replications; (the rate of) memetic mutation or evolution. Written texts tend to slow the memetic drift of dogmas (Henson).

MEMETIC ENGINEER: One who consciously devises memes, through meme-splicing and memetic synthesis, with the intent of altering the behavior of others. Writers of manifestos and of commercials are typical memetic engineers. (GMG)

MEMETICIST: 1. One who studies memetics. 2. A memetic engineer. (GMG)

MEMETICS: The study of memes and their social effects.

MEMOTYPE: 1. The actual information-content of a meme, as distinct from its sociotype.

2. A class of similar memes. (GMG)

META-MEME: Any meme about memes (such as: "tolerance", "metaphor").

META-MEME, the: The concept of memes, considered as a meme itself.

MILLENNIAL MEME, the: Any of several currently-epidemic memes which predict catastrophic events for the year 2000, including the battle of Armageddon, the Rapture, the thousand-year reign of Jesus, etc. The "Imminent New Age" meme is simply a pan-denominational version of this. (Also called the `Endmeme.')

MIMICRY: An infection strategy in which a meme attempts to imitate the semiotics of another successful meme. Such as: pseudo-science (Creationism, UFOlogy); pseudo-rebelliousness (Heavy Metal); subversion by forgery (Situationist detournement). (GMG)

REPLICATION STRATEGY: Any memetic strategy used by a meme to encourage its host to repeat the meme to other people. The hook co-meme of a meme-complex. (GMG)

RETROMEME: A meme which attempts to splice itself into an existing meme-complex (example: Marxist-Leninists trying to co-opt other sociotypes). (GMG)

REWARD CO-MEME: See bait.

SCHEME: A meme-complex. (Hofstadter.)

SOCIOTYPE: 1. The social expression of a memotype, as the body of an organism is the physical expression (phenotype) of the gene (genotype). Hence, the Protestant Church is one sociotype of the Bible's memotype. 2. A class of similar social organisations. (GMG)

SYMMEME: See co-meme.

THREAT: The part of a meme-complex that encourages adherence and discourages mis-replication. ("Damnation to Hell" is the threat co-meme in many religious schemes.) (See: bait, hook, vaccime.) (Hofstadter)

TOLERANCE: A meta-meme which confers resistance to a wide variety of memes (and their sociotypes), without conferring meme-allergies. In its purest form, Tolerance allows its host to be repeatedly exposed to rival memes, even intolerant rivals, without active infection or meme-allergic reaction. Tolerance is a central co-meme in a wide variety of schemes, particularly "liberalism", and "democracy". Without it, a scheme will often become exo-toxic and confer meme-allergies on its hosts. Since schemes compete for finite belief-space, tolerance is not necessarily a virtue, but it has co-evolved in the ideosphere in much the same way as co-operation has evolved in biological ecosystems. (Henson.)

UTISM: UTism is short for 'us-versus-them-ism.' Dogmatic adherence to a belief system can create an 'us vs. them' mentality in the believer. The 'us' group consists of people who share our beliefs, and the 'them' group consists of those who hold conflicting beliefs. (KMO)

VACCIME: (pron. vak-seem) Any meta-meme which confers resistance or immunity to one or more memes, allowing that person to be exposed without acquiring an active infection. Also called an `immuno-meme.' Common immune-conferring memes are "Faith", "Loyalty", "Skepticism", and "tolerance". (See: meme-allergy.) (GMG.)

Every scheme includes a vaccime to protect against rival memes. For instance:

Conservatism: automatically resist all new memes.
Orthodoxy: automatically reject all new memes.
Science: test new memes for theoretical consistency and(where applicable) empirical repeatability; continually re-assess old memes; accept schemes only conditionally, pending future re:-assessment.
Radicalism: embrace one new scheme, reject all others.
Nihilism: reject all schemes, new and old.
New Age: accept all esthetically-appealing memes, new and old, regardless of empirical (or even internal) consistency; reject others. (Note that this one doesn't provide much protection.)
Japanese: adapt (parts of) new schemes to the old ones.

VECTOR: A medium, method, or vehicle for the transmission of memes. Almost any communication medium can be a memetic vector. (GMG)

VILLAIN VS. VICTIM: An infection strategy common to many meme-complexes, placing the potential host in the role of Victim and playing on their insecurity, as in: "the bourgeoisie is oppressing the proletariat" (Hofstadter). Often dangerously toxic to host and society in general. Also known as the "Us-and-Them" strategy. (See UTism.)

Footnotes

1. The original definition read "parasitically" instead of "symbiotically". Thanks to Tyson Vaughan for making the suggestion.
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Here's a memetic glossary from an activist website.

http://smartmeme.org/article.php?id=208

ABCNNBCBS - the increasingly blurred brand names for the same narrow stream of U.S. corporate filtered mass media. This is the delivery system for the advertising product that giant media corporations sell to the general public. This process used to occur primarily through overt advertising, increasingly however it has become a complex web of cross-marketing, branding and self-promotion among different tentacles of the same media empires.

advertising - the manipulation of collective desire for commercial interests. Over the last 20 years as it has grown to be nearly a $200 billion industry it has become the propaganda shell and dream life of modern consumer culture. (See Control Mythology)

articulating values crisis - a strategy in which radicals lay claim to common sense values and expose the fact that the system is out of alignment with those values

control meme- a meme used to marginalize, co-opt or limit the scale of social change ideas by institutionalizing a status quo bias into popular perception of events. The type of memes that RAND Corporation analysts and Pentagon information warfare experts spend countless hours and millions of dollars designing.

control mythology - the web of stories, symbols and ideas which define the dominant culture's sense of normal (including limiting our imagination of social change) and make people think the system is unchangeable.

confirmatory bias - psychological concept in which studies have shown people are more likely to accept/believe new information if it sounds like something they already believe.

defector syndrome- the tendency of radicals to self-marginalize by exhibiting their dissent is such a way that it only speaks to those who already share their beliefs.

direct action at the point(s) of assumption -actions whose goal is to re-frame issues and create infectious new political space by targeting underlyingassumptions

earth-centered - a political perspective through which one defines themselves and their actions in the context of the planet's ecological operating systems, biological/cultural diversity and efforts to re-center human society within the Earth's natural limits/cycles. An emerging term to draw links and build alliances between ecological identity politics, land based struggles, indigenous resistance, earth spirituality, agrarian folk wisdom and visions of sustainable, ecologically sane societies both past and future. (etc.) A politicized acceptance of the sacredness of living systems.

global crisis- the present time in the history of planet earth characterized by the systematic undermining of the planet's life support systems through industrial extraction, unlimited growth, the commodification of all life and emergence of global corporate rule. Symptoms include : accelerating loss of biological and cultural diversity, the deterioration of all ecosystems, the de-stabilization of global ecology (climate change, soil erosion, bio-contamination etc.) growing disparities between rich and poor, increased militarization, ongoing patterns of racism, classism and sexism and the spread of consumer monoculture. Part of the endgame of 200 years of industrial capitalism,
500 years of white supremacist colonization and 10,000 years of patriarchal domination.

image event - an experience, event or action which operates as a delivery system for smartMemes by creating new associations and meanings

meme- (pronounced meem) a unit of self-replicating cultural transmission (ex. ideas, slogans, melodies, symbols) which spreads virally from brain to brain. Word coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 from a Greek root meaning "to imitate" to draw the analogy with "gene". "A contagious information pattern" - Glenn Grant. A meme often operates as a container, anchor or carrier for a larger more complex story.

movement - a critical mass of people who share ideas, take collective action and build alternative institutions to create social change.

points of intervention - a place in a system, be it a physical system or a conceptual system (ideology, cultural assumption etc.) where action can be taken to effectively interrupt the system. Examples include point of production (factory) point of destruction, (logging road) point of consumption, (chain store) point of decision,(corporate HQ) point of assumption (culture/mythology) and point of potential (actions which makes alternatives real).

political space- the ability of an oppositional idea or critique of the dominant order to manifest itself and open up new revolutionary possibilities.

psychic break - the process or moment where people realize the system is out of alignment with their values.

psycho-geography - the intersection of physical landscape with cultural and symbolic landscapes. A framework for finding targets for direct action at the point of assumption.

smart meme - a designer meme which injects new infectious ideas into popular culture, contests established meaning (control memes) and facilitates popular re-thinking of assumptions. These are memes that act as containers for collaborative power, reveal creative possibilities for change and help grassroots social movements contest idea space.

subverter-an effective radical who works within the logic of the dominant culture to foster dissent, mobilize resistance and make fundamental social change imaginable

Values crisis- the disconnect between common sense values (justice, equality, democracy, ecological literacy) and the pathological values which underlie the global corporate system

Values shift -a recognition that the global crisis is the expression of pathological valueswhich we will need to change. An area of extreme difficulty to organize since people's values are very ingrained and the values arena is often appropriated by powerful reactionary traditions and institutions. (government, organized religion, patriarchal family etc.)

Xerxes- ancient Persian emperor who despite having the world's largest military force over extended himself and was defeated by the unity and creativity of the Greeks starting a long decline that led to the end of Persian dominance. A conceptual archetype for the fall of all empires. U.S.A. take note.
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Principles of Propaganda

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Propaganda: Its Psychology and Technique
by Leonard W. Doob
Yale University
Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1935

pages 413-417


The Principles of Propaganda

1. PRINCIPLE OF THE INTENTION OF THE PROPAGANDIST. In intentional propaganda, the propagandist is aware of his interested aim; in unintentional propaganda, he does not appreciate the social effect of his own actions.

2. PRINCIPLE OF PERCEPTION. The propagandist makes his stimulus-situation stand out from its competing ground.

2a. PERCEPTUAL PRINCIPLE OF AUXILIARY ATTITUDES. The propagandist makes his stimulus-situation outstanding through the arousal of auxiliary attitudes.

2b. PERCEPTUAL PRINCIPLE OF REPETITION. The propagandist repeats his stimulus-situation to increase the probability that it will be perceived.

2c. PERCEPTUAL PRINCIPLE OF SIMPLIFICATION. The propagandist simplifies his stimulus-situation to bring it within the range of perception.

3. PRINCIPLE OF THE TYPE OF PROPAGANDA. The propagandist employs one or all of the following types of propaganda: revealed, delayed revealed, and concealed propaganda.

3a. PRINCIPLE OF REVEALED PROPAGANDA. In revealed propaganda the propagandist enables people to perceive his aim through direct suggestion.

3b. PRINCIPLE OF DELAYED REVEALED PROPAGANDA. In delayed revealed propaganda the propagandist reveals his aim only after he has aroused related attitudes.

3b1. TEMPORAL PRINCIPLE OF DELAYED REVEALED PROPAGANDA. In delayed revealed propaganda the propagandist enables people to perceive his aim at a moment when that aim can be integrated into the previously aroused related attitudes.

3c. PRINCIPLE OF CONCEALED PROPAGANDA. In concealed propaganda the propagandist refrains from stating his aim and integrates through indirect suggestion the aroused related attitudes into a new attitude which predisposes people toward that aim.

4. PRINCIPLE OF RELATED ATTITUDES. In the process of suggestion, the propagandist arouses related attitudes that are instrumental in bringing about the desired integration.

4a. PRINCIPLE OF RELATED DOMINANT ATTITUDES. The propagandist employs attitudes that are already dominant as related attitudes or he arouses related attitudes that remain dominant over a period of time.

4b. PRINCIPLE OF RELATED CENTRAL ATTITUDES. The propagandist arouses related attitudes that are central attitudes.

4c. PRINCIPLE OF RELATED AUXILIARY ATTITUDES. The propagandist arouses auxiliary attitudes that also function as related attitudes.

4d. PRINCIPLE OF VARIATION. The propagandist varies the content of his stimulus-situation, in order to arouse related attitudes in different people and, by changing their stereotypes, to construct new attitudes in others through positive suggestion.

5. PRINCIPLE OF THE DESIRED INTEGRATION. The propagandist secures a desired integration that predisposes people toward his aim.

5a. PRINCIPLE OF THE TYPE OF INTEGRATION. The desired integration is either a central or a segmental attitude.

5b. PRINCIPLE OF ACTION. The propagandist secures a desired integration that leads to action.

6. PRINCIPLE OF THE SPHERE OF UNPREDICTABILITY. Before the desired integration is achieved between the related attitudes and, except in the case of concealed propaganda, the comprehension of the propagandist's aim and before it leads to an action, there is a sphere of unpredictability due to the temporal character of the propaganda, the presence of competing propagandists, and the complexities of the personalities in the group with which the propagandist must deal.

6a. PRINCIPLE OF THE AUXILIARY SUBMISSIVE ATTITUDE. The propagandist reduces the sphere of unpredictability by restricting the mental field through the arousal of a submissive attitude toward a stimulus-situation which has prestige and the effect of which is a tendency towards increased suggestibility.

6a1. PRINCIPLE OF POSITIVE SOCIAL VALUE. The propagandist includes within his stimulus-situation objects and persons with positive social value.

6a2. PRINCIPLE OF THE IMPRESSION OF UNIVERSALITY. The propagandist produces an impression of universality.

6a3. PRINCIPLE OF THE SELECTION OF PROPAGANDA. When the prestige of the propagandist or of the stimulus-situation is not diminished by the revelation of his aim, revealed propaganda is employed; when the prestige is diminished by that revelation, concealed propaganda is employed; when it is diminished by an immediate but not by a subsequent revelation, delayed revealed propaganda is employed.

6b. PRINCIPLE OF INDICATING THE PATHS OF ACTION. In revealed and delayed revealed propaganda, the propagandist reduces the sphere of unpredictability by indicating the paths of action to which the desired integration may lead.

6c. PRINCIPLE OF REINFORCING. The propagandist reduces the sphere of unpredictability by preventing the desired integration from remaining latent or from disintegrating.

6c1. REINFORCING PRINCIPLE OF REPETITION. The propagandist repeats the same or similar stimulus-situations.

6c2. PRINCIPLE OF ADDITIONAL RELATED PRE-EXISTING ATTITUDES. The propagandist arouses other pre-existing related attitudes.

6c3. PRINCIPLE OF ADDITIONAL RELATED NEW ATTITUDES. The propagandist forms new attitudes through positive suggestion by changing people's stereotypes.

6d. PRINCIPLE OF LIMITATION. The propagandist reduces the sphere of unpredictability by limiting the stimulus-situation through distortion, suppression, and fabrication.

6e. PRINCIPLE OF PRIMACY. The propagandist reduces the sphere of unpredictability by producing the initial, relatively stable integration.

7. PRINCIPLE OF COUNTER-PROPAGANDA. The propagandist uses counter-propaganda when conflicting attitudes tend to prevent the desired integration from emerging.

7a. PRINCIPLE OF NEGATIVE SUGGESTION IN COUNTER-PROPAGANDA. In counter-propaganda, the propagandist uses negative suggestion to render conflicting attitudes ineffective.

7b. PRINCIPLE OF POSITIVE SUGGESTION IN COUNTER-PROPAGANDA. In counter-propaganda, the propagandist uses positive suggestion to form new related attitudes that will counteract conflicting attitudes.

8. PRINCIPLE OF PERSUASION. The propagandist uses persuasion as a supplementary method.

8a. PRESTIGE PRINCIPLE OF PERSUASION. The propagandist employs persuasion on people with prestige toward whom later a submissive attitude is directed by other people.

8b. TEMPORAL PRINCIPLE OF PERSUASION. Persuasion supplements propaganda at a crucial moment to bring about the desired integration and action among certain people.

LYNCH:
Eraserhead (ahdistavuuden huippu) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/
Inland Empire (häiriintynein elokuva) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/
Lost Highway (tyylikkäintä tärähtelyä) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/

KAIKKI ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY LEFFAT:

CRONENBERG:
Naked Lunch (exterminate all rational thoughts)
Videodrome (long live the new flesh)

MUITA:
Neco z Alenky (Svankmajerin versio liisa ihmemaasta)
The Secret Adventures of Tom the Thumb (mieletön animaatio)
Survive Style 5+ (japanilaista häröilyä) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/
Tetsuo (The Iron Man) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam scifi häröilyä) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
Dark City (Matrix SR. Kannattaa katsoa director's cut) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/
Pi (IAMGOD) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
Rubber's Lover (NOISE) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227408/
Visitor Q (Hit by a brick) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290329/
Salo (Sodomized movie) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/
Naked Blood (kaktuskauhua) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217679/

I. THEE KEY

My primary concerns in space and time: That situation which society informs us is named "being alive", or on more intellectual days, "reality"; are Control, Human Behaviour, and an inkling that underlying everything is a web of parallel causes and parallel effects upon which we can exert more manipulative pressure than we are led to believe by the aforementioned Society. Whilst is is true that we did not ask to be here, it is also true that we did not ask to not be here either. Birth and Death at this stage of evolution appear to our everyday senses to be thee only certain points in this maelstrom of "being alive". Thee word being is such a nice word, to be, to be in, being, a state of mind and/or body, it is a rather coumforting and seductive word. Yet like all words it has reverberations. Languages interfacing, wars and migrations cross fertilising, needs to do more that grunt, urges to express more than biological functins and pre-requisites.

History, that which travels thee macrocosm of space and time, lives inside words like an ectoplasmic hermit crab in a stolen shell. Words in turn live inside us too, like more hermit crabs, protecting themselves from discovery of their secret, and words live outside us freeranging in our culture like viruses waiting for an appropriate host. This function has be deeply investigated by W.S. Burroughs in literature, and to a lesser extent through tape and film, and collage works earlier in his career. However, looking back with an overview in 1987, this first layer and its direct symbiotic relationship with all interpretations of control and all thee interactions and permutations it exposes satisfied him and occupied him enough. Brion Gysin, "Thee Master", who largely introduced W.S.B. to this whole scenario, saw further, saw thee other layers, was not satisfied. He studied languages, western and eastern Etymology, had devastating knowledge of European migrations and interactions going back as far as records allowed. He was aware of thee process touched upon earlier. He observed first hand for 23 years thee threads of pulse and frequency generated through Moroccan music. Where thee master musician has certain phrases and sequences of sound that are thee equivalent of a spoken language and guide and instruct thee players as thee music is performed. Music that therefore literally "speaks" of primal roots and impulses of behaviour. That triggers endorphine assisted alpha-wave neurological states that inspire and reveal thee fluidity of occult physics. That all is light, which is nothing more than an idea, and that light is, within that, infinite particles exploding and racing in every direction simultaneously. A quaquaversatility. And that is thee nearest to a key we might get. And from this Brion gave us paintings and drawings which began with thee desert, with desert light. And then seemed at first glance to becoum more abstract, myriad scratchings and markings swirling until he showed you they were thee desert still, thee light itself, thee very particles of sight. And they were thee desert dwellers, thee keepers of thee music, thee speakers of frequency. Thee expressors of magick lore. Thee inhabitants of Pan, drowning in unspoken rituals.

II. THEE DOOR

In relation to this event and its primary concerns, "Thee Door" is thee cut-up. There is now a clear representation of thee system that concerns us. Contrary to thee image we are presented with by those Feudal Overlords that administer Control, our society is not yet part of thee 20th century in terms of its comman structure and behavioural inhibitors. Thee great majority of people are to all intents and puposes "serfs" and they exist on thee minimum level of potentiality expansion at which they can function to perpetuate thee status quo. No one conglomerate of businessmen, or politicians, or masonic manipulators control Control. They do however administer its needs. It's an obvious truism that most injustices in our Society are protections of thee vested interests of a minority over thee majority. For hundreds of years thee majority of thee population have been bullied, conditioned, trained, suppressed and censored into subservience.

Into an unconscious yet massibely potent acceptance of thee impossibility of an evolutionary change in human behaviour patterns, in thee impossibility of aspiring to thee maximum growth and repossession of their own innate potential. Control is thee web that traps us and injures our intuitive belief in our selves. Thee word, literature, parallel this process. With a cut-up you can break down thee expected, inherited values and assumptions and retrain yourself to look at revealing possibilities. Describing "reality" more accurately than any linear system. Our languages are linear. Life is not. At any given moment we are recieving input to thee exteroceptors both in obvious ways and less obvious ways. (i.e. Sound enters our body through all its surfaces, via vibration and frequency, not just via thee ears). These inputs contribute to motivation in thee cerebral cortex. Simultaneously to this process memories are being compared to thee new information and thee cerebral cortex then modifies it and adds it to a command for thee subcortical regions. In those sub-cortical regions effectors carry out the command response to thee stimuli. While these neurological functions are taking place, thee body coumtinues its metabolic functions and actions semi-automatically. Random events outside thee Individual's body are also being registered and/or affecting thee Individual. Emotions are triggering and interplaying in thee subconscious. Thee entire nature and state of that Individual is in a state of flux. There is no fixed point, no definition, no finite answer of specific formula. Thee closest to a possibility of describing thee reality of things as opposed to the inherited linear materialistic model of thee state of being alive has to be a kaleidoscopic, integrated, non-linear method. It has to contain, at least implicitly, every possibility, every impossibility, every conscious and unconscious thought, word and deed, simultaneously. Thee Cut-up is a practical way-in to this. Life is quite simply a stream of cut-ups on every level. Given thee discovery of a means to describe and reveal reality, we can also identify Control. Control denies intuition and instinct particularly, and dreams of all forms, randomness, thought. All these and other behavioural and psychological perceptions generate impulses in Individuals to say "Why?", "No" and refuse acceptance. To believe more is possible than they have been (literally) LED to believe. That they need accept nothing until they have analysed and evaluated its value and applicableness to them.

III. THEE ROOM

A room means to have space to grow and develop. It is also a physical place, and like all words it is a metaphor too. Thee room is where you are, and where you want to be. To go into thee room is to choose to reclaim yourself. Until people learn to respect themselves again, to care for themselves, to treasure emotions and feelings. To have self-esteem and accept no one else's suggestion of what it is possible for them to be, what skills they might have and how far those skills can be pushed, to always make up your own mind about what is right for you, what has value to you in every aspect of Life. To re-learn as a new second-nature to make up your own mind and not be directed, intimidated or accepting of any established system of values and behaviour. Until all these processes are returned to an Individual's own control and constantly reanalysed to check against laziness and habit for its own sake there can be no possibility of evolution and expansion for thee Individual and, through them, society. What is needed therefore, is a practical, functional method that effectively deconditions, disinhibits, short circuits a society's behavioral taboos and control. A physical back-up to thee process of always asking why. Accepting nothing as true. It was this quest for a method that led me first towards performance art, within which context E attempted to set myself tasks that forced me to locate barriers and inhibitions related to pain and sexual thresholds, for example. Once identified and measured, E was able to think about whether they were actually useful to me, or were merely inherited. This regimen in turn introduced me to new mental states akin to trance and yoga, and unexpected blocks or embarassments that were illogical to me. Ritualisation fused with impulse and instinct integrated with intuition, an open-minded examination of my most deeply buried and normally inarticulated drives and desires and an approach devoid of preconceptions that re-educated my idea of what E was as an Individual, what my real boundaries were, and what it was possible for me to become. What E had been bombarded with as my self-image by Education, Religion, Society, thee Family and thee Media in their various colluding forms, subtle and blatant, bore no relation to what E experienced and perceived. There are always levels beneath thee level of what we identify as a problem. Suddenly E realised that ritual, and various, previously named, "occult" practices were in fact methods of short-circuiting Control of thee Individual, destroying their coumpliance with what they are trained to expect, want, or aspire to. They were a parallel method in thee medium of Behaviour and self-reclamation to thee Cut-up in Writing, Film and Video and Music. So cultural methods of de-control COULD just as effectively be applied to ourselves. To more accurately describe both how we are at one point in Time, and how we can re-define ourselves from that point on. To be aware of all thee simultaneous factors that must be clearly and honestly allowed free-play for us to work in a focussed accurate manner towards a fully integrated character. That recognises and embraces every aspect of its complex self, free of any self-delusion. That finds its own rations with a complete re-integration of thee conscious and subconscious mind of sexuality, emotion, intelligence, knowledge, relationships, dreams and so on. Not just a developing of so-called logical perceptions, butter a genuinely realistic blending of thee illogical also. And recognises that nothing is fixed, that these ratios are forever changing and should be seen as directions.

IV. THEE PERSON

Thee person therefore could fight back. And a long-standing tradition of Magick appeared thee most relevant area and structure within which to research and express thee possibilities open to Individual and Collective redefinition and evolution. As Burroughs said about Cut-ups, "How Random Is Random?". Thee picture we get from cut-ups is more accurate than any traditional description. What has always been presented as thee Irrational becoums far more accurate and plausible than thee Rational explanation we are endlessly urged and bullied to accept. Thee psychology of thee unconscious explores thee background of thee so-called rational mind both by disciplined investigation and hysterical dissociation of thought habits.

There is a strong implication that thee essence of Magick is psychointegrative. It re-invests thee Individual with an awareness of psychogenetic history, lets them face and re-evaluate their own responses and perception of themselves. It allows them to be awake and fight subservience and adherence to any and all preconceptions. Thee myths and symbols of thee past were attempts to articulate intimations of what is possible. Thee themes of mythology are not just archaic knowledge- they are living actualities of human beings. They exist as signposts and facets of interlaced themes that together make up human behaviour, character, aspiration and potential. To touch ourselves and respect ourselves against all thee odds is crucial to survival and to appreciation and effective use of thee state of being alive. Thee need is to find a way into thee deepest areas of thee psyche and how it affects and triggers behaviour and response. To redevelop an integrated relationship with our so-called primitive perceptions from which we have been alienated by Society. Western Society has built a norm where unthinkingly thee majority of people deny, ridicule, attack, abuse, trivialise, experience fear of, suppress or consign to novelty any experiences that provide evidence or intimations of their inherited system of explanations being inadequate. Fact, whatever that is, is given credence over dreams; acceptance by a group is paramount, deviation and rebellion generate fear. Those with thee courage to openly declare independence and hope are isolated and scorned. Fame is constantly projected as thee primary motivation for ambition. Every level of our Society is riddled with thee concept of competition, beating thee other person or side, this is reinforced by Capitalism, by Sport, Success in Entertainment and all fields, by Religion and by Politics. Compete, compete. Competition is a variant of aggression. By using ritual, gradually getting a clearer map of every inter-connection of one's conscious and unconscious mind and couming to terms with thee revelation that flux and constant change with no anchors or reassuring formulae and no guaranteed rewards or salvation one can liberate oneself from all thee inherited constraints that nine times out of ten directly or indirectly bolster thee status quo. It literally allows us to face ourselves and face facts. It supplies recognition that within each Individual there are many types and shades of consciousness with diverse intentions and values. By investigating our blocks, inhibitions, real desires and motivations in preconceived moments of Time set aside to explore thresholds of perception and response to check exactly what oneÂ’s limits are and decide if they are oneÂ’s REAL limits, or merely convenient or coumplacent, we can re-assemble and discard as we wish.

V. THEE IDEA

To heal and re-integrate thee human character. To set off psychic detonations that negate control. To re-evaluate and value phenomena that appear to defy reason. To retrieve choice in all things. To avoid separation and coumpartmentalism in every aspect and level of Life, internal and external. To always attempt to express as truly as you can what you really feel and think. To locate and identify oneÂ’s skills and develop them. To be aware of human frailties and futility whilst caring intensely. To push to thee edge and struggle to always feel and express more. To despise all forms of coumplacency. To carry through oneÂ’s ideas 24 hours a day for a lifetime. To accept nothing. To assume nothing. To encourage others to repossess themselves and maximize their potential. To exchange and liberate information. To understand and treasure thee preciousness of feelings, emotions and sentiment. To rebuild thee parameters and possibilities of relationships. To locate and choose without guilt or fear oneÂ’s individual and natural balance of sexuality. To change and not see change as contradiction or inconsistency, butter actually how things are and should be. To see Time as an unfixed and irreplaceable resource that one receives only a limited and unpredictable amount of. That that Time must never be wasted or squandered. To try to work towards knowing that you used every second constructively. To seek self-improvement not self-gratification.

Control. Control needs Time (like a junkie needs junk). Time appears linear. Cut-ups make time arbitrary, non-linear. They reveal, locate and negate Control. Control hides in social structures like Politics, Religion, Education, Mass Media. Control esists like a virus for its own sake. Cut-ups loosen rational order, break precopnceptions and expected response. They retrain our perception and acceptance of what we are told is thee nature of reality. They confound and short-circuit Control. All Control ultimately relies upon manipulation of behaviour. In culture thee Cut-up is still a modification of, or alternate, language. It can reveal, describe and measure Control. It can do damage butter that is not enough. Magick as a method is a Cut-up Process that goes further than description. Its is infused with emotion, intuition, instinct and impulse, and includes emotions and feelings. It operates actually within thee same medium, “Behavious”, as Control. It is therefore essential as a system to challenge, emasculate and render impotent thee source of Control itself.

Control Disintegrates. Magick integrates.

Thee idea is to apply thee cut-up principle of behaviour.

Thee method is a contemporary, non-mystical interpretation of “Magick”.

Thee aim is reclamation of self-determination, conscious and unconscious, to the Individual.

Thee result is to neutralize and challenge thee essence of social control.

Genesis P-Orridge, London 1987