I live in Houston, but have already dropped out on the conscious level. I don't recieve or transmit the energies involved with this city, society, etc. I'm still physically within the system, but add no momentum to it. In fact, I exude a light of truth everywhere I go, within Houston or wherever. I'm very sarcastic, which makes people think. Every encounter I have through out the day, is an opportunity for me to make someone think. Think outside their self-created thought prison. Dissension is not always running off to the hills. Look at the vagabonds and squatters and bums. It's kinda like how those who already freed their minds could still plugin to the matrix and wander around with the knowledge that it's not real. That's who I'm trying to gather in this tribe.
Anybody got inputs?
Anybody got inputs?
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Mon, January 24, 2005 - 9:44 PMInputs? We got analog, RCA & XLR & balanced 1/4", we got digital, SP/IDF, optical - any kinda hookups you want, bud...
Well. sarcasm does not by definition 'make people think', if someone is listening to the tone rather than the substance of your comment they may simply react with antagonism or defensive resentment - Anyway, you can't make people think, you can try to give a jolt to their awareness by alluding to an alternative perspective - But they can still get stuck focusing on the finger rather than the moon you're pointing to, or remain trapped in their own preconceptions - It's even worse nowadays, where you have mainstream advertising and popular culture appropriating the once vital tactics of shock (dada, punk, etc) or situationist detournement in service of the status quo - A culture so imbued with *irony* (used more as a fashion pose or distancing defense nowadays than as a weapon of subversion), that it almost seems like the most radical response available now would be disarming honesty and heartfelt sincerity...
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Mon, January 24, 2005 - 10:04 PMhaha I agree with you ferrara... except to say that you must witness my good friends use of sarcasm to understand just how powerful a force it can be... true the first reaction is normally one of defensive resentment... but damn to see the puzzled looks sometimes... this guy totally blows peoples minds and it's such a riot!
I hope that one day you will have the opportunity to know what I'm talking about here... who knows.. if things go as planned we may have that opportunity in the not too distant future!
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Sat, January 29, 2005 - 9:33 PMI like to say or do whatever it takes to put a puzzeled look on someone's face, but I always play the fool, so there's no intimidation. They always feel in control. I think that's what puzzels 'em. I play like I'm naive but not dumb.
I'm sure you have tricks of sparking brain activity in complete strangers, Ferrara.
Beaudha's thing is that he doesn't say anything for a while but just smiles and laughs. Then when a topic that interests him comes up, he starts talking quietly and everyone listens. He was nicknamed "Beaudha" a long time ago, as a nickname cause his last name and smoked a hella lotta buddah. :) But he's grown into his name over the years. It's really cool how life has it's own little tricks like that that spark thought. -
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Sat, January 29, 2005 - 9:39 PMYou ought to be familiar with this book, PRANKS...
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...987-0908717
It's all about what you're speaking of here - Probably the funniest book I have ever read, I was convulsed in laughter on the floor through many pages (Abbie Hoffman is in there, as well as Jello Biafra, Boyd Rice, Joe Coleman, and many others) - I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone with an interest in disrupting mainstream reality... -
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Fri, May 6, 2005 - 10:41 PM"disarming honesty and heartfelt sincerity... "
yeah, this is so very true. That combo is radical.
but who is "Jello Biafra"? Am I the onlyest person who doesn't know? His/her name is on a poster on my door, but I guess our paths haven't crossed yet?
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Re: Dissent at the Conscious Level
Mon, March 20, 2006 - 6:47 PMJello Biafra, former lead singer of "The Dead Kennedys", spoken word perdormer and someone who says many things that inspire people to think. Ice-T, the ex-gangsta rapper used one of Jello-Biafra's spoken word pieces at the begining of his album "Freedom of Speech...Jusr Watch What You Say."
That idea rings as true as ever with Bush in the "Shite" House. Remember when his former press-secretary said in a nationall televised press conference in the aftermath of the WTC plane ooops? He said, , "Americans just better watch what they say," or words very close to that. Ice-T's record came out in the eighties and I don't think Ari Fleishman was listening to it when he came up with those words. He wasn't making a knowing joke with a wink to Ice-T.
My favorite line from the spoken word bit by Biafra is: "All people taking drugs not prescribed by their employers will...be...shot!"
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