PIRACY, IMMEDIATISM, AND THE MASTER GAME
By now, you should be aware that the 'Pirate' lens of this blog is just that, a lens. The wider vista is one that opens up onto a much larger world view. This view is not meant for everyone. There are a number of incontrovertible facts that you will have to accept in order for any of what I have written to ring your bell. It would be cruel to expect a knowledge of, say, calculus from a retarded person. And as much as the practitioners of the "mean, green meme" would like to give that knowledge (and a nice quiet, mundane existence) to everyone, everywhere on the bell curve of intelligence, it just aint gonna happen.
So what are YOU after? A job? A career? or a LIFE? But I can't live without a JOB. Yes maybe, but you have to first distinguish your LIFE from the acquisition of a BUNCH OF FUCKING GADGETS!
Well, permit me to let you in on a secret. A LIFE is ONLY possible with the energy that flows from your participation in a REAL group . Like most of the ideas presented here, this flies in the face of popular myth.
As one of my heroes, Elbert Hubbard stated: " The ideas that benefit a man are seldom welcomed by him on first presentation" So what, I say. That which I KNOW to be true, I must state. (You should try it....it makes you feel better...and it helps to insulate you from the shit that the ever-present LATE-STAGE CAPITALIST MEDIA throws at you)
What are the groups that Late Stage Capitalism supports? The nuclear family for one. "The People I Know At My Job" is another. My Church Group of course. Unfortunately, as we have seen previously, the nuclear family is a cruel joke played on us. It simply doesn't have the capacity to offer any real support in our quest for the master game. Half of all marriages fail. The other half devolve into stupid transactions, barely acceptable to a REAL HUMAN BEING and kept going "for the kids". Both the nuclear family and 'the people I know from work' are already self-alienated and tied into the WORK/CONSUME/DIE STRUCTURE OF LATE-STAGE, POST MODERN CAPITALISM. (A great example of the WORK / CONSUME / DIE Structure is the first 1/2 hour of the movie 'FIGHT CLUB'
Religion is of course mostly about fundraising and crowd control. If what Jesus was REALLY TEACHING was ever allowed into popular consciousness, people would be throwing themselves out of buildings like confetti on parade day. Are you starting to GET IT? If you don't become your own meta-programmer, you run the risk of being overwhelmed by the programming offered by media (mediation). Immediatism (and its brother movement Situationalism) provides a skin thick enough (hence our beloved Rhino pictured above) to withstand the mediation of late stage capitalist society One of the purposes of IMMEDIATISM (and Piracy) is to lessen the effects of the WORK / CONSUME / DIE Paradigm.
What are the groups that Late Stage Capitalism supports? The nuclear family for one. "The People I Know At My Job" is another. My Church Group of course. Unfortunately, as we have seen previously, the nuclear family is a cruel joke played on us. It simply doesn't have the capacity to offer any real support in our quest for the master game. Half of all marriages fail. The other half devolve into stupid transactions, barely acceptable to a REAL HUMAN BEING and kept going "for the kids". Both the nuclear family and 'the people I know from work' are already self-alienated and tied into the WORK/CONSUME/DIE STRUCTURE OF LATE-STAGE, POST MODERN CAPITALISM. (A great example of the WORK / CONSUME / DIE Structure is the first 1/2 hour of the movie 'FIGHT CLUB'
Religion is of course mostly about fundraising and crowd control. If what Jesus was REALLY TEACHING was ever allowed into popular consciousness, people would be throwing themselves out of buildings like confetti on parade day. Are you starting to GET IT? If you don't become your own meta-programmer, you run the risk of being overwhelmed by the programming offered by media (mediation). Immediatism (and its brother movement Situationalism) provides a skin thick enough (hence our beloved Rhino pictured above) to withstand the mediation of late stage capitalist society One of the purposes of IMMEDIATISM (and Piracy) is to lessen the effects of the WORK / CONSUME / DIE Paradigm.
The other purpose is to provide the SPACE (or slack) in which to achieve AWAKENING.
The wide domain of happiness has never been mapped; but sorrow has been surveyed and known in every part.
Take 'modern psychology' (please). Deterministic rat-running-fucks. Robert S. de Ropp, author of "The Master Game" makes the distinction between what is called 'Mental Illness' by the deterministic-rat-running-fucks and what it really is:
"It has been stated by Thomas Szasz that what people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort or esteem but GAMES WORTH PLAYING. He who cannot find a game worth playing is apt to fall prey to ACCIDIE, defined by the Fathers of the Church as one of the Deadly Sins, but now regarded as a symptom of sickness. ACCIDIE is a paralysis of the will, a failure of the appetite, a condition of generalized boredom, total disenchantment.....Such a state of mind, Szasz tells us, is a prelude to what is loosely called 'mental illness' which, though Szazs defines this illness as a myth, nevertheless fills half the beds in hospitals, and makes multitudes of people a burden to themselves and to society" ACCIDIE is the reason people turn to drugs, to anti-social behavior, to crime. It is the necessary byproduct of Kapitalism, and one of its driving forces. Just wait...your local paper will soon have news of new court-house building projects, new jails, more cops...
There you go...what is thought of by our medical establishment as a precursor to mental illness is in fact the first stage of REAL MENTAL (AND EMOTIONAL) FITNESS!!! Now, on to Immediatism.
As Hakim Bey states:
"To be "to busy" for the Immediatist project is to miss the very essence of Immediatism. To struggle to come together every Monday night (or whatever) in the teeth of the gale of busyness, or family, or invitations to stupid parties-that struggle is already Immediatism itself. Succeed in actually physically meeting face-to-face with a group which is not your spouse-and kids, or 'the guys from work' or your fucking 12-Step Program--and you have already achieved virtually everything Immediatism yearns for. An actual Project will arise almost spontaneously out of this successful slap-in-the-face of the social norm of alienated boredom. Outwardly, of course, the Project will seem to be the group's purpose, its motive for coming together, -- but in fact the opposite is true. WE'RE NOT KIDDING OR INDULGING IN HYPERBOLE WHEN WE INSIST THAT MEETING FACE-TO-FACE IS ALREADY 'THE REVOLUTION' ...
The wide domain of happiness has never been mapped; but sorrow has been surveyed and known in every part.
Take 'modern psychology' (please). Deterministic rat-running-fucks. Robert S. de Ropp, author of "The Master Game" makes the distinction between what is called 'Mental Illness' by the deterministic-rat-running-fucks and what it really is:
"It has been stated by Thomas Szasz that what people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort or esteem but GAMES WORTH PLAYING. He who cannot find a game worth playing is apt to fall prey to ACCIDIE, defined by the Fathers of the Church as one of the Deadly Sins, but now regarded as a symptom of sickness. ACCIDIE is a paralysis of the will, a failure of the appetite, a condition of generalized boredom, total disenchantment.....Such a state of mind, Szasz tells us, is a prelude to what is loosely called 'mental illness' which, though Szazs defines this illness as a myth, nevertheless fills half the beds in hospitals, and makes multitudes of people a burden to themselves and to society" ACCIDIE is the reason people turn to drugs, to anti-social behavior, to crime. It is the necessary byproduct of Kapitalism, and one of its driving forces. Just wait...your local paper will soon have news of new court-house building projects, new jails, more cops...
There you go...what is thought of by our medical establishment as a precursor to mental illness is in fact the first stage of REAL MENTAL (AND EMOTIONAL) FITNESS!!! Now, on to Immediatism.
As Hakim Bey states:
"To be "to busy" for the Immediatist project is to miss the very essence of Immediatism. To struggle to come together every Monday night (or whatever) in the teeth of the gale of busyness, or family, or invitations to stupid parties-that struggle is already Immediatism itself. Succeed in actually physically meeting face-to-face with a group which is not your spouse-and kids, or 'the guys from work' or your fucking 12-Step Program--and you have already achieved virtually everything Immediatism yearns for. An actual Project will arise almost spontaneously out of this successful slap-in-the-face of the social norm of alienated boredom. Outwardly, of course, the Project will seem to be the group's purpose, its motive for coming together, -- but in fact the opposite is true. WE'RE NOT KIDDING OR INDULGING IN HYPERBOLE WHEN WE INSIST THAT MEETING FACE-TO-FACE IS ALREADY 'THE REVOLUTION' ...
Of course it will be horribly difficult--why else would we have spent the last decade trying to construct our 'Bohemia in the Mail' (or internet) if it were easy to have it in some quatier latin or rural commune? The Rat-Bastard Capitalist scum who are telling you to 'reach out and touch someone' or 'be there' (or Just Do It) (where--alone in front of a fucking television set) ----these Lovecrafty Vampires are trying to turn you in to a scrunched-up blood-drained pathetic little cog in the death-machine of the human soul...Fight Them!--by meeting with your friends, not to consume or produce, but to ENJOY FRIENDSHIP--and you will have triumphed (at least for a moment) over the most pernicious conspiracy in EuroAmerican society today--the conspiracy to turn YOU INTO A LIVING CORPSE GALVANIZED BY PROSTHESIS AND THE TERROR OF SCARCITY -- TO TURN YOU INTO A SPOOK HAUNTING YOUR OWN BRAIN. THIS IS NOT A PRETTY MATTER!! THIS IS A QUESTION OF FAILURE OR TRIUMPH!!
In fact, it is a question of LIFE OR DEATH. OF YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL.
Life games reflect life aims. And the games men choose to play indicate not only their type, but also their level of inner development. Do you really want to hang around with a bunch of retards?
I have no desire left to 'save' the human race. Neither should you. Saving yourselves is a big enough task.
In fact, it is a question of LIFE OR DEATH. OF YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL.
Life games reflect life aims. And the games men choose to play indicate not only their type, but also their level of inner development. Do you really want to hang around with a bunch of retards?
I have no desire left to 'save' the human race. Neither should you. Saving yourselves is a big enough task.
What does the Pirate model of living offer? Everything that Post Modern Capitalism doesn't.
Thus endeth the lesson. (until I revise it)
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