Comments on: Conspiracy Against Levity in The CT Community?

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:18:33 +0000

Something about all caps makes this read like this to me, Melvin:

ALL REAL SOLUTIONS MYTH REALITY: ALL

READ THE TECHNOCRACY STUDY COURSE

ONLY INSANITY

ANY?

Thanks for adding your two cents. Some things I agree with in re: to the utopian technocratic ideology. But not ALL of it.

Making technocrats the rulers just means getting a new set of pirates, in my book. I appreciate that you’ll disagree.

By: Melvin Udahl

Melvin Udahl — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:55:22 +0000

Once upon a time there were pirates and they were very shrewd and cunning. They set up their own political kings and word magicians all throughout the land for the purpose of distracting the attention of the people away from their activities. The political kings and word magicians were skilled at the fine art of propaganda, they used words like “Terrorism” to generate the kinds of passions and or emotions that were needed for the people to take up arms and go to war for the pirates. Now, we might ask ourselves why the pirates wanted the people to go to war for them? The answer is simple, so the pirates could easily loot the treasury of ALL the people.

Take back your power that you willingly give away to the pirates and realize that REAL SOLUTIONS to our most complex problems are already here, but first we MUST move beyond the MYTH of money and politics as we gracefully enter the realm of REALITY for the benefit of ALL.

READ THE TECHNOCRACY STUDY COURSE for the ONLY viable alternative to the INSANITY of ANY belief based political-economic system.

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:24:45 +0000

I can understand sulking about Monopoly (I mean, having to play it is bad enough, but not winning’s even worse), but hide-and-seek? Damn, Alan Watt, loosen up!

By: John M

John M — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:12:57 +0000

I just think that Alan Watt is a wee bit too ‘negative’ for my tastes – all the doom ‘n’ gloom and none of the solutions or optimism….and anyway, he always sulks when he doesn’t win the hide-and-seek.

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:41:17 +0000

“Try imagining it’s happened already- we won!”

That’s great advice. If it can work with the little things (and I know from experience), why not with The Big Bad Stuff (copyright pending)?

Cosmic Giggle…I’m gonna steal that for the title of my book. Not as sexy as a Trigger, but so much less messy!

So…how come Alan Watt isn’t getting invited to your next party? Did he make a fool of himself at the last one?

By: John M

John M — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:40:36 +0000

Humour is very powerful weapon to get your point across to people – get ‘em laughing and they’re on your ’side’ pretty quickly. That suspension of tension by laughter is the niche in the character armour that can be exploited.

‘This guy (or gal) can’t be a ‘Conspiracy Theorist’, he’s making me laugh too much, putting me in touch with my gut & heart reactions, the ones I had before the MSMedia & the Reality Police airbrushed them away with doubts and scorn’.

Just think of the power of Bill Hicks at his most provocative & most fucking hilarious!….you felt it and knew it was fucking true.

Yeah, too many doom’n'gloomers, ‘abyssers’ who wouldn’t know what to replace the ‘Illuminati’/NWO with, if 911 Troof & all the rest of it was exposed, universally accepted & acted upon. Try imagining it’s happened already – we won!

Can’t we all enjoy a regular Cosmic Giggle at our controlled (demolition) follies? Isn’t everything just the way it should be after all, going according to schedule, what we’ve brought into existence? I mean, this is the universe we’ve all chosen this time round, isn’t it? Why shouldn’t it all turn out nicely in the end? With positive thought, how can we fail?

Nah, I don’t think I’ll be inviting Alan Watt to my next party somehow…..

By: HCE

HCE — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:49:07 +0000

Well I certainly don’t think anything *has* to anything,
except that death *has* to be the point when I don’t have to do my laundry anymore.

So you see…

HCE

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:28:21 +0000

I don’t think conspiracy theory *has* to simply be a subset of entertainment, nor does activism. But it’s very difficult for it to NOT be, given the Spectacular societal structure we’ve built up around everything.

Then again, The Spectacle’s just another framework for understanding. It ain’t the picture.

By: cadeveo

cadeveo — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:27:07 +0000

Great question, speedbird. My sense is that to act means to do something, to take an action. Pretending is a subset of that. But what if we thought of it like this: if you are acting with consciousness and deliberation (regardless of the intent), then there is a quality of performance or presentation therein; this isn’t necessarily the same thing as simply “pretending”, but you can get to this sort of action via pretending, though “pretending” is not a guarantee on that. (Perhaps here’s where intention plays its part.)

Just something to throw out there. I’m by no means an authority.

I don’t think there’s necessarily any contradiction between taking action seriously and humorously. You can take serious humorous action and it can be effective. You can take serious serious action and it can be effective. the seriousness, for me, comes from committing 100 percent, going “whole hog, plus the postage.” I’m the first to admit I quite frequently fall short of that mark, so the times I’ve really acted seriously in this sense are probably fewer than my ego would like to think.

I think the danger of committing whole hog to humorless action is that it can warp you, it can trap you in suffering and eventually sap your energy.

But again, I’m no authority on anything. Check it out for yourself in your own experience.

By: HCE

HCE — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:18:43 +0000

Will, you mention politics, and I think it is worthwhile to remember Frank Zappa’s definition of politics here: “Politics are the entertainment branch of industry.” Damn, I wish I’d said that (you will HCE, you will…)

So if politics are entertainment, then they should easily be able to contain humor.

I agree with you that conspiracy is generally a form of entertainment. So much so that I recently dubbed it conspiro-tainment. I haven’t hear that term used before, but it may have been. I used it in a response over at Rigored Intuition. I’m sure it will go over like a lead blimp.

HCE