why geeks should be insulted: an open letter to morgan webb
Created | Updated Mar 23, 2006
yes i do love the guide -- both its fictional version and its real world counterpart.
the main thrust of the following essays is that geeks should be insulted -- especially when they proudly self-style as geeks -- to facilitate the evolution of stylistic and artistic culture. and also because often geeks can not tell when reality ends and the real world begins. for example i could tell someone i regulaly cntribute to the Guid. "
"oh, you mean like in the books by douglas adamns. yeah, zaphod';s just this guy, see.' snort.
when that's NOT what I mean. At all.
if that were my only example/reason i could be seen as small minded. simply even ducks and chickens have opinions about how they are ti be slaughtered as any farmer knows. and as the dreadful world situation remains statistically Luciferous in its addiction to dropping hot fire on little children complete with a banality of explanation/instruction on how to shut up and support the System -- one observer sees some people with a lot of potential i.q. to play with spending all their time at gaming and conventioning and having a 'couldn't care less' approach to things like ground-wave psychotronic manipulation of massive amounts of persons courtesy of HAARP (see previous artikles) or of other 21st century problems.
simply they would rather read wonder warthog and play soul calibur and watch ms webb's breasts bounce in digitized form.
this is the unedited version of this research and opinion article
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[QUOTE=mikaldnovelty,Apr 18 2005, 09:09 PM]hi.
yeah.. u kno, i DOi think x-play should be a lot hipper.
when shows get old sometimes they do utter facelifts. whole new format -- if you saw TV Guide and the Logo was totally different you would still get TV guide -- unles syou were a moron - and cutting loose moronic viewers is GOOD for ratings. why?
because you get newer eHIPPER viewers. and they tell ten friends. that night. so instead of losing subscribvers, viewers and points you have GIANED them by revamping your image.
what i am suggesting is nothing less than being cold and offputting to the nerds and appealing to the millions of cool people who are skeeved out by geeks with no lives and no idea and embarassingly, no sense of how to talk to human beings.
geeks are called geeks because they are socially retarded.
if they knew how to interact with "hu-manz" (imitates ferengi) they would never be called nerds.
JimShatner, SNL
"HAVE YOU EVER KISSED A GIRL?"
I have no sense of humor about this. It's a sad state of affairs.
There IS No "Geek chic".
that was a MARKETING TOOL.
it's ass backwards like so many things -- and like people who are so uncool that they don't know thedifference between a rant and an essay.this is neither -- this is a personal letter to Morgan Webb -- who is all right loking -- but i am disgusted by a picture of Morgan with no head, juist her teats -- as soon as we get here -- see that is what geeks do.
Uncool people are uncool. They scare away success because it's what they do.
Geek Chic is a sick attempt to make social retardationinto a badge of honor. You can check my premises: on tyhis level they are cleaner than Ayn rands rest room on the orient Express: in other words: objectivley i am correct.
hey Morgan? Ya know how the ountry go screwed and Buish got so deeply ensconced?
In the 1980s greed became good and it became uncool to be politically correct. i mean -- I have my own radio show and i am definitely not competing with you. you knew i would send this letter -- i warned you before but it is nothing to be scared of. at VIBE they call it props due.
as serious as that, friend.
your show is sort of geek oriebnted and you could pick up prestige and have more fun by tooling it up. i don't know how much creative control you have Morgan but i suspect a great deal.
so on to part two of this letter where i blow my own shiny and rather direct horn. how ya doin!
Our company is called ChipTruth ENG. we are a division of Knossus Product Champions Inc.
online at genius loci , myemployer's dotcom. i am an independednt contractor and we are allies in a dream involving solar architecture, the unification -- a
harmonious and clean -- of art and industry. t
we specialise in solar architecture and are associated with critical path and the Fuller project to get Bucky Fiuller's best ideas and innovations into the mainstream and to be ahead of the competition curve.
the division that i lead is ChipTruth ENG.
Electronic news gathering is on a certain level what any grip with a camera in a news gathering is doing: it is the industry trem for gathering news electronically.
What distinguishes ChipTruth ENG is the synergetic way of design. We make games, that is so. But we are also all about revolutionizing the INDUSTRY.
Planned obsolescence blows -- it is Nolan Bushnell's contribution to the 21st century.
Ayn rand said Evil is envy or hatred of the good for being the good. I believe that Good is therefore transcendance of "evil" -- hatred and useless competitition in industry - that consistently helps heals and evolves to meet the needs of the emerging superculture -- the unified world culture.
so Sega and Nintendo make games. that's great. the Playstation is a decent system.
what we aere doing is fusing the ideologies of Nolan Bushnell and the original ATARI geniuses with the insight and work ethics of the ib\nventors of the Apple personal computer. Other than that -- paranoia afflicts the capitalist world. the advantage of teh Knosus thurst is that it is decidedly post capitalist. in other words we are immune to competition from corpate sharks -- if they want our ideas they have to play fair. and if they don't...
street language.
There you have it.
Titles:
the whole idea is that i write simple simple games. dumb games i can't even program HTML. i don't have time. i have aband and a career and "solid excrement".
But Stan "The Man" Lee had the right idea. He has a BULLPEN strategy that is patented and it works.
So we construct a bullpen. Sure.
And then we do things that ASega of Americaand Nintendo of America willnever ever be able to do because they are uncool, unhip corpoate nerd core. seriously and we both know this. why am i reaching out toyou? cause i have a picture of you loking TROTALLY DISGUSTED.youa ren't saying anything but as a visual artist i take pains to interpret the thoughtrs and felings behind facial expressions and Mogan Webb says to me in the picture i see regularly -- this makes me actually suick. i wanttokill something. that is how sick this all maks me.
like a cop you can't admit that you feel this way to your cohorts. but it is one picture and i know you aren't apsoseur i know that you play all of digimion world. i wish i had that sort of time --
I am too busy writing Shadow City Secret Heroes. i am tioo busy wroteing Dog and Werewolf. Sean is too busy scratching his head figutring out how to draw the characters. Quentin, the flight som consultant is to busy flying panes. as is Art, the other consultant who is a economics specialist. we are spread out all ocver the world.
we're a 21st century country that met in the 90s = the Knossus Cafe proudly staged the first international internet cafe of its time -- in 1990 international video conferencing connecting seattle, paris, new york and philly was something to do.
today on the level we did it it would just be netmeetinmg. but we unified art and industry with exhibits...it was the spriot of the 'happening'/
why is this unbelievable? Because republicans are in power, Morgan,
and republicans are no fun at all.
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meanwhile starry night freeman is a great program,. i found teh cd trashpicking near UPenn. naturally -- i use it in my work as an astrologer.
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but what is the problem? well it is for astronomy and i love it. but for astrology -- i need to tweek it.
i could hack it like a fool with resedit and waste a lot of time. i would rather work with a programmer -- and ideally -- with that company \.
but as you know, stars and famous people and big undustries are surrounded by a protective layer of "male-bovine solid excrement" and fucntionaries. and in somae cases a second layer of functionaries to rprtect them from the protective layer. this is the schizoid nature of paranoid competition in capitalism -- and why Knossus has been excelling for a while.
but you should check it out for yourself morgan -- take your time. Christo' site is comprehensive and basically free from major design flaws. there are inspirational quotes and when you are done i am convinced that you will take solar architecture more seriously. a new car came out last week. sweeping wing doors like the delorean it is sort of like the stingray for the new century. i want that car streamlined, it looks quick.
but i have to put a new carburator in it. 10 cuty, 17 highway.
things have to change, Morgan. they are gonna change and they have to get BETTER and not worse. the liars who depend on things continuing to SUCK will lie and cheat at every turn. Fuller's vision is about beating them to the punch -- that is what Anticipatory DS -- design science -- really was all about for Buckminster and is about for usm, yoru friend Christos Xelos and Chip Devalia at Knossus Inc.
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the most important reason why self styled -- and proud "geeks" are despised happens daily on our cable news providers.
as the real world (yes, there is one) is rife with corruption, industrial violence and other very bad problems -- peopel who perhaps aren't superliterate see the millions of dollars and millions and millions of HOURS spent indulging in fantasies by people PROUD to embrace an insult as a badge of honor. and we wish to break yoru cellphones. rip up your character sheets. flush your dice down filthy toilets and basically let you know that you are NOT cool.
as in bell hooks and allen ginsberg cool. as in madonna at least TRYING cool.
personally i see you, morgan, as a tool being leered at by some of society's most pathetic and impotent examples. and of course you are professional at it -- whi ch is an exuse MANY of them DON'T HAVE.
"gamer". only developers and others involved in the INDUSTRY can really put hat on a resume.
but in the meantime there is a world with chronic social ailments. people like janeane garafalo and jim carey have put the weight of their wills and hollywood clout to bear at changing social ills by talking about left and right of center politics specifically. geeks waste hours playing soulcalibre and then say "mm, yummy death" and drool at your "boobs" without a sense of iroiny. it is maybe socially inacceptable to smack such people. cool.
basically there is a lot of money being made in what was once called 'bread and circuses."
i love my mom. when tensions flare internationally i think about HER stress level before i think of my own. she is old and bitter and of course her days of pursuing a career in journalism ended when my began -- in the 1980s.
at indymedia.org there are punk nerds who think themselves "geek catalysts."
they are socialist propaganda simple and overt. their work for inteernational socialism actually SERVES the long term interests of so-called "BushCo" -- and when there is a lack of directly exposing news on corporate media COMBINED with proud socialist "geeks" reporting news poorly 0-- and propagandistically -- the lean of most days reportage being "become the international soviet media"
there are many reasons to despise people who dopn't really take alook at issues and show any real caring.
the current world government seeks just what getting lost in masturbatory college fantasies represents -- the death of care. by such means they will enmsure that DIEBOLD will hand over election after electuion and the geekification of america will continue,. and those who were owne properly castigated in society will become the weak, boring, expensive and slugwilled substitute for "cool".
notice that while i have insulted those who call themsel;ves "geeks" i have not insulted you personally in this letter. the LAST time i was here i saw a picture of you. it was withoyut a head. theneck to teh waist. you were sitting behind a chair.
objectification of women is at its most disgusting when women are reduced to their feminiencharacteristics and made devoid of individual personality. that is what disguste me, as a human being anda feminist. and the standing militant Phallocratic heirarchy is DESPERAT to keep this dehumanization going on.
as young men played supermetroid in the eighties and were treated to a look at a young girl in a bathing suit.
later they were espose dto ideas that Iraq was a threat to america's safety. some joined up.
they got jobs in darkened areas, pushing buttons and seeing rasterized mockups or sometime svideo of what they were actually doing. when did they learn about human beings in iraq -- or get exposed to ideas that might diplomatically approach human problems?
instead, shoot, shoot, shoot and consider your self a cool nerd. not a 21st century schizoid man armed with the latest technology.
i know you are not even allowed to say what you might really think to this leter in this forum. i know what corporate mentality ios really all about -- and so does Daryn kagan, Rush Limbaughs shapely new fiance and o anchor of CNN This Morning.
In the United states gender disparity and imbalance hides behind perks, high profile yakkers and inflated salaries -- for some. But the real story of gender imbalance is about hose whose stories get shoved into dull dull stories at four a.m. --
or worse, get made into low res human caricatures for RockStar games. there are a lot of reasons to despise geeks. there aren't any 'cool geeks' there's no dry water, no Satano-Christianity and no 'cool geeks.'
go call henry rollins a geek to his face. or courtney love. or try it with me? we will continue to be cyberpunks -- understanding the coldness of industry and goverrnment and using the information superhighway to expose the venal, self hating low end of american and human society behind the geek mentality -- usually hiding some of the most chauvanist and racist and slug willed people n any social situation -- people who becameclassically schizoid as per the Deleuzian example by throwing themselves out of the real world and into places based very loosely on our very real, feudal international schem -- a Pluto's Republic where elctions are a joke for a few weeks and little children are killed in the international theater of operations...
...their few advocates all but impotent while geek fare gets billions of doallars.
if one understands the continuity of violence, geeks kill. they spend a few billion dollars on DOOM or Half Life. taxes come out. we both are erudite to know that taxes and the military industrial complex go handin hand. so while said geek is pressing buttons gleefullyhappy that lucasArts has unlocked 'be The Old Republic' capabilities on the N64 (now real cheap0 --
in the desert, the real Old republic is leaving depletd uranium for little children to grow up sickly coexisting with.
or to DIE. or to survive and to be the people in 2010 who have very good reason to DESPISE ignorant american sycophants who are suckers for what the International Military-Industrial compelex offers.
geeks could not debate with me on this subject. I am sure there are males thathave military sims, college degrees and shurgs if inifference when asked about the international military crises that face the world. to say little for now of environmental issues.
there are a LOT of reasons to hate geeks. But I am sure that he curent Administration enjoys the way that the current young adult generation hasbeen trained to equate low self esteem with terdny fashion statement. a hamstrung self esteem ffom most of the youthful population means that there will be that many people --
...who will look the other way, or say "that's just a conspiracy theory."
and go back to their half lives.
i won't address those people here, as they are as Robert Anton wilson, semiotician and rogue intellectual and author of many commercially undersuccessful novels calls them 'larval humans.' and when told aboutthe long range world effects of their half-lifstyel -- they tend to get like the weenuses who posted "above" me.
i rather prefer to save more suprises for them
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