tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21546999505763397692024-03-14T07:37:46.510+01:00tale of the tribeFragments from 'the tale of the tribe' gathered by steve fly. Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.comBlogger263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-63480440422257992892021-12-13T14:41:00.003+01:002021-12-13T14:41:40.842+01:00Corona Slayer And 2020 by Squintin Quarantino (Paperbacks)<p> </p><p>I intended to collect 2020 Haiku poems into a book and publish it
quarterly, after the world tilted toward a new trajectory due to novel
coronavirus, as you will see, my writing shatters slowly returning to
freestyle rhyme and longer pieces, trying to make meaning of the new
world of 2020 and what lies beyond the horizons. <br /><br />On reflection
my first explicit mention of the virus is in the following lines from
February 2nd: coronavirus / spreading like racism flu / check your
prejudice / solidarity / with all east asian people / li sao for
sorrow." These scrawls you track my attention moving with the spread of
the virus and its potential impact and its dangers, within creative
works and social media posts curated for your quarantainment, culled
from blog poems, tweets and rants fresh.<br /><br />For the record, my best
guess is a Pangolin and a Bat spawned a new chimera near a Chinese a wet
market, and since that moment power hungry greed heads have been trying
to figure out how to twist the pandemic to forward their goals. Please
consider my chronological diary of writings on Covid-19 as a testament
to one individual trying to make sense of the available data. Stay safe,
and keep supporting each other. Be nice. Thanks.<br /><br />www.patreon.com/stevefly <br /></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="a5lgl" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><span data-text="true">2020: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-1-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVMFD6V/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_2XJ8FSAZDQN3WE1SNT5F</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9d74q-2-0"><span data-text="true"> via </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-3-0"><span data-text="true">@amazon</span></span></span><br /></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRAAtMi3akjSw5wqX8puim-hsqtQZn3pzdJ_oYLfM2VFhtEAZ2rtx2mYtdKCir466jYQEbTRAWJ3Cc3gqMv_9sXjen_CJsMQ4fiq0WA19SfTxTQpV8c6VKZa8LSlP6Cdu0vwu8xMzdk5Fs8gi8DMCXkfGED7HoaG7U2x8QnJB4mWVt_MWw_8mvEA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="2048" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRAAtMi3akjSw5wqX8puim-hsqtQZn3pzdJ_oYLfM2VFhtEAZ2rtx2mYtdKCir466jYQEbTRAWJ3Cc3gqMv_9sXjen_CJsMQ4fiq0WA19SfTxTQpV8c6VKZa8LSlP6Cdu0vwu8xMzdk5Fs8gi8DMCXkfGED7HoaG7U2x8QnJB4mWVt_MWw_8mvEA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0">PLUS</div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><br /><br />CORONA SLAYER By Squintin Quarantino (Poetry)<br /><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="doear" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span data-text="true">Corona Slayer: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-1-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVM38N8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_A3Y18W8SHCEE49KHC814</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="7265t-2-0"><span data-text="true"> via </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true">@amazon</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrM8qqbRgirJbLNiHWZ2AJf5yv2aUFXA56OMipLF7wt9cdYkppHW80CQvGLDxYhbZmg_Z7eQCjD-4KBOTMZ_6z0T4rIO13-8ug1FOD8gzfArexTtphVsFVV9NeL1yPcBceewD4BFxMQSe9Q4OsU5236WrHQuV71D-Oyq0NCkkvGrGlSWtRHl2dVA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="2048" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrM8qqbRgirJbLNiHWZ2AJf5yv2aUFXA56OMipLF7wt9cdYkppHW80CQvGLDxYhbZmg_Z7eQCjD-4KBOTMZ_6z0T4rIO13-8ug1FOD8gzfArexTtphVsFVV9NeL1yPcBceewD4BFxMQSe9Q4OsU5236WrHQuV71D-Oyq0NCkkvGrGlSWtRHl2dVA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-45526776245981461382020-11-14T09:29:00.007+01:002020-11-14T09:29:57.325+01:00Orientalism And Modernism - The Tale Of The Tribe<p></p><p>When I lived in New Orleans 2003-04 I was browsing a bookshop and stumbled upon the book "Orientalism and modernism" by Zhaoming Qian. The book travelled with me to New York, Chicago and back to the Bay Area and onto the UK, finally sitting on my shelf today, in Amsterdam. Everytime I go back to it I'm rewarded with enriched mental images. </p><p><br />For any studying the tale of the tribe as outlined by Robert Anton Wilson, "<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/orientalism-and-modernism">Orientalism and Modernism</a>" is my recommended introduction, getting at central themes such as being/non-being and contextualizing them in multicultural discourse orbiting poetry, the language of the tribe. <br /><br />This book, for me, reflects some of the reasons why Wilson included the relatively obscure scholar of far-eastern art and poetry: Ernest Fenollosa, in his dozen or so...historical modernist influencers (Bruno, Vico, Nietzsche, Yeats, Joyce, Pound, Korzybski, Fuller, Shannon, McLuhan, Welles)<br /><br />I'd argue that some techniques employed by early Chinese poets predate the modernist tendencies and explorations of beingness, demonstrable/evidenced in the analysis of ellipsis, juxtaposition...plus symmetry with natural forms. Beautiful stuff. Toward a language of Daoism and quantum mechanics? </p><p> Good day.</p><p><br />--Steve Fly </p><p> </p><blockquote><p><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, " sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Author: </strong><a class="author" href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?AuID=695571" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #945aa5; font-family: Helvetica, " sans-serif"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms linear 0s;" title="More information about Author Zhaoming Qian">Zhaoming Qian</a> </p></blockquote><blockquote><p><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, " sans-serif"; font-size: 16px;">Subjects</strong></p></blockquote><blockquote><div class="b-book-overview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, " sans-serif"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; width: 555px;"><article aria-expanded="true" data-readmore="" id="rmjs-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 586px; max-height: none; overflow: hidden; transition: height 500ms ease 0s; width: 535px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=85&sortid=3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #945aa5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms linear 0s;">Asian Studies</a>, <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=106&sortid=3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #945aa5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms linear 0s;">Literature and Literary Studies</a> > <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/explore-subjects/browse?subjectid=106003&sortid=3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #945aa5; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms linear 0s;">Literary Criticism</a></p><div itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound’s and Williams’s remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets—Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi—between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans’ work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen–Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound’s pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cathay</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lustra</i>, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sour Grapes</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spring and All</i>. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Orientalism and Modernism</i> fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.</div></div></article></div></blockquote><div class="b-book-overview" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, " sans-serif"; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; width: 555px;"><article aria-expanded="true" data-readmore="" id="rmjs-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 586px; max-height: none; overflow: hidden; transition: height 500ms ease 0s; width: 535px;"><div itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></article></div>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-39601859891556303002020-11-03T09:31:00.007+01:002020-11-03T09:36:26.957+01:00Lockdown With The Tribe - 200 Video's On The Tale Of The Tribe (Youtube Playlist)<p> What better time to touch-up on your TTOTT chops and follow the internetwork of principles, methods, ideas and artworks defined by Robert Anton Wilson as worthy study for surviving in the 21st century. </p><p>I wish you all a safe and productive hibernation. Love, Steve Fly. </p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EA119478EE8715D</p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PL7EA119478EE8715D" width="560"></iframe>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-6834538945747026112020-11-03T09:22:00.002+01:002020-11-03T09:22:32.008+01:00Robert Anton Wilson General Intelligence <p> </p><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.21429em; margin: 0px 0px 7px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Anton Wilson General Intelligence</h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8125em; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 2.09231em; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="posted-on" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.1875px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepscratch.net/2020/07/27/robert-anton-wilson-general-intelligence/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2020-07-27T21:11:08+02:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JULY 27, 2020</time><span class="byline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="sep" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 3px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ~ </span></span></span></a><a class="url fn n" href="https://deepscratch.net/author/flyagaric23/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">FLYAGARIC23</a></span></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published for <a href="http://www.maybeday.net/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">MAYBEDAY </a>2020. Thanks for the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/stevefly" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Support.</a> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWAGI</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The challenge to write and record this has proved to be the toughest assignment I have set myself to date, to write and make meaning and coherence of things I do not fully understand. If you can forgive my ignorance and errors I’ll be grateful. I hope that my overemphasis on links to source papers and articles will make up for my over-exaggerations and self-delusions.–<a href="https://www.patreon.com/stevefly" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Steven “Fly” Pratt</a>, 20th July, 2020. </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 64px; position: relative; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nothing is ‘mere’–Richard Feynman. </p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This collection of molecules has been whimsically tossing around the concept of a <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Anton Wilson Artificial General Intelligence</span> for nearly a decade, since I first came across the heavyweight champion of the field, Ben Goertzel. If you want to skip my musings and get into the thick of it, just watch his latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSmCKe27WE&t=13716s" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">interview</a>. If not only for the purpose of grasping how ambiguous the isolated terms “general” and “Intelligence” are and Ben’s well positioned interpretation of both those words charged with maximum meaning. I need not explain to the <a href="http://www.rawillumination.net/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">RAW heads</a> in the room how these themes weave through his life and works.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rather than continue in a straight-ahead, step-by-step manner, I want to perform by example and mix it up, let the chips fall where they may, moving from node. I’m keeping free, seeking surprise = information. Happy RAW day. Make it NEW! </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 64px; position: relative; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I was an early, and enthusiastic experimenter with LSD, peyote, magic mushrooms and any other compound that mutated consciousness. The result was that I became more agnostic but less superior about it….”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…I am endlessly fascinated by every new tool or technique that breaks down robot circuits in our brains (Correct Answer Machines) and spurs creativity, higher intelligence, expanded consciousness, and above all, broader compassion.–Robert Anton Wilson, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Left And Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective.</span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Email To The Universe</span>. Pg. 135. </p></blockquote><h2 class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 400; margin: 27px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Anton Wilson: General Intelligence For The People</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 64px; position: relative; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Love All The People”–Bill Hicks.</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The further research I do into <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Artificial General Intelligence</span>, the more I’d like to give a brief round-up of who I suspect are the major players. And gather some quotes I feel help to unpack my message, or just visit my <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWGI</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXYrNR_W4FXiwRNZ1Jrw6miH5SXAxJ4co" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Playlist HERE</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Before bursting into my philosophical whimsy on <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWGI</span>, I’d like to make a statement for all future AGI, deep learning projects. I hold no <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PhD</span>, am affiliated with no universities or institutions and am not a member of any political or religious organizations. From this standpoint I’d like to echo the call for A.I. enthusiasts to secure trust and understanding, I see a lot of technophobia in the new pandemic-time and I think A.I researchers need to prepare a broad and robust line of defence against attacks, ranging from the ultra-moronic haters, UK tabloid techniques, to good meaning bad actors, to megalomaniacal sociopaths. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My minority point of view (perhaps in the minority of one) proposes that individual human beings from history, their social-moral personal lives, are critical together with explanatory knowledge that they produced. For example, the life and death of Alan Turing vs. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Turing Test</span> and other technical contributions. I guess that, a <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Universal Constructor</span> + <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AGI</span>, requires training, like for all the Olympic events at once and might not like being bullshitted. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The more often I use the term <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWAGI</span> the less I like it as a title due to my wish in avoiding claims this is a vanity project and the start of a path to necromancy and worship of idols. Please remember that Wilson often repeated that a student is an asshole looking for somebody to attach themselves too and he disliked being idolized or being considered a guru. I feel this was reflected in some of his classes and their titles at the on-line <a href="http://maybelogic.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maybe Logic Academy</span></a> between 2004-2006, they were never about him or to inflate his academic tenure among scholars, they were classes jam packed with a smorgasbord of explanatory knowledge systems, humbly encouraging ass-holes to suspend judgement and consider both the parts and the whole. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For clarity, let me repeat, the purpose of this outline for a new discussion between like-minded individuals, is by no means limited to RAW, and meant to cause the reader to think up their own dream-team inputs, or the least critical amount of individuals and their innovations of explanatory knowledge from history, who make up a finite group but quickly by association and resonance, interconnect congruently. For example, Wilson’s work demonstrating Isomorphism between <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finnegans Wake, Cabala, I-Ching</span> and Quantum Physics, a typical Wilson clusterfuck that he diligently turns in Scorsese-like, cinematic prose. And then there’s all that Magick and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LSD</span> and metaprogramming, bloody scrumptious. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The questions raised by RAW concerning<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the tale of the tribe</span>, partly deal with literary criticism on the one-hand and biographical details on the other. For me, they pose challenges and avenues for growth and discovery, and now with the race to make a cool friendly and funny smart superintelligence. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Come on, it has to be designed on Bob, you think so?</span> The critical question concerning “<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">how much of the song of myself do I put in the poem vs. how much history of the others do I include and finally, how to make it cohere</span>” reflects a similar problem I see facing AGI programs, the limits of human art and creativity and manipulation, in the province of mind?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Open-Ended Intelligence is postmodernism and a bit of Eastern philosophy projected into the realm of modern science.–<a href="https://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-developmental-role-of-incoherent.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Ben Goertzel, July 2020</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lingering questions of any historical figure, from the point of view of their work, isolated from their lifestyle–political stance and personality–impacts the field of <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friendly Artificial Intelligence, or</span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FAI</span>. Yes, there’s a field of research and AGI study, with a name that signifies in a nutshell what I’m suggesting we build. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cheerful Artificial Intelligence</span>, embodied in the life and life’s work of Robert Anton Wilson, cross-examined and reconstructed from his digital-dozen individuals that make up the tale of the tribe.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SOPHIA, the interactive weak A.I designed and built by David Hanson and Ben Goertzel and their team, was the little sister to a similar yet less convincing Philip K. Dick robot. Yes please, you’re joking right? I’d not suggest Wilson’s science fiction is comparable to that of P.K.D stylistically or indeed in popularity, but both authors knew and respected each other and each other’s work enough to warrant a non-fictional correlation between them, factually documented. I’d call this an intersection point – PKD-RAW. Besides his recently published <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EXEGESIS</span> book, his works exhibit psychically dazzling Science Fiction prose, Wilson on the other hand published an equal amount of fiction and non-fiction, dashings of his non-fiction confronted hard problems and fringe theories with a razor beam of philosophical prowess. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve read previous critiques of Wilson based on reviews of his fiction exclusively, that seems foolish and small minded to me. I suppose most authors get their life’s work whittled down to one book in the end. Perhaps, one downfall of being such a generalist as RAW is the miss-categorization of his books and previous inability to promote them, I say previously because thankfully <a href="http://www.hilaritaspress.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hilaritas Press,</span></a> under the steam of Rick Rasa and Christina Pearson and team are republishing all of RAW’s books with new prologues, epilogues, cover designs and fine-tooth edits. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With luck, it will be upto the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWGI</span> algorithm to decide or inform us precisely how much fiction is within his non-fiction and vice versa. The exciting possibilities of reviewing <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAW’s</span> works in light of new <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Natural Language Processing</span> tools and the direction of cutting edge mathematics, physics and AGI make my mouth water. I confess, in a practical sense I offer little. To repeat, it’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tale of the tribe </span>and the ongoing study of it’s interrelations as defined by RAW, that I suspect will contribute to an, as yet, unforeseen field of AGI. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Anton Wilson was a man of the people, and so it goes…any A.G.I project with his mark on it should be firstly, for all the people (I know, that’s hard to quantify and a bit vague innit’). He was not in it for the money or the fame, (whatever that is?) his integrity and sincerity remain unparalleled among American <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">writer/philosopher/conspiracy</span> dons. He was no fan of the uniformed authorities, in particular the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Military Agricultural Media Pharmaceutical Entertainment</span> monster, the beast the United States Of America had morphed into during his lifetime, 1932-2007. His treatment by the medical associations and medical insurance companies in his last days may be remembered as a further stain on the USA, thankfully his close friends, family and fans from afar all pulled together and made it bearable for him and gave him a dignified send off. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To any future researchers and budding computer scientists reading this, the CIA Nazi Tsarist Alliance defined by Wilson distinguishes his integrity and brevity, cutting beyond other researchers in the field, there’s a lot of boot-lickers out there, spivs and pound-shop Machiavelli’s, trying to get another grant or milk the cash cow for a few greedy people. I sense that Bob would always call out lying greedy bastards, I personally loved him for that, his fearlessness, coupled with a good sense of justice.Track trace and isolate the super-rich, I say, share the wealth using A.I. algorithms to deduce the fairest and fastest way to deliver our world-around fair and equal shares, <a href="https://www.eff.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">justice</a>. ANY future artificial general intelligence program will have to wrestle with RAW facts of his life, or counter facts. Consider this a sort of soft challenge, which other contenders for a limited AGI training set, now consider stepping very carefully when it comes to conspiracy theory and A.I. Please, thank you Alexa/Siri/Sophie/Computer/Computer. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a recent video presentation by David Deutsch, recorded in April 2020, he confirmed for me the RAWesque statement that approximately, YOU and each and every individual human (infinite flux of beingness) is precisely a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Universal Constructor</a>, endowed with *Artificial General Intelligence. “YOU are the master who makes the doughnut green.” Deutsch adds that the prefix *Artificial can be dropped, leaving General Intelligence, G.I. As you were son, chill.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I’m attracted to this optimistic and gratifying way of describing humanity in 2020, in effect leading to our necessity for sympathy and empathy and compassion, lots of it, when trying to understand other symbol systems and entities and batshit crazy people talking shit. </p><h2 class="has-text-align-center" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: 400; margin: 27px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">TTOTT AGI</h2><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First, for example, there remains a necessity of the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tale of the tribe</span> to stem from an individual human narrator, anchored in space and time and history. Secondly <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tale of the tribe</span> is constructed in the language of epic poetry, an epic poem including history, a modern verse epic. “Poetry contains a high amount of information, political speeches low.” Thirdly, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tale of the tribe</span> should…be relevant globally, trans-cultural and trans-linguistic, a King Kong sized order, bold and encyclopedic in scope, a group thing. The Tribe here is used as a synonym for humanity, when considered within a <a href="http://doughnuteconomics.org/Creating-City-Portraits-Methodology.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">hyperconnected</a>, McLuhanesque, Global Village (Digital Village). In the comforting concept of oneness and togetherness, one tribe aboard Spaceship Earth. Detribalization by way of the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tale of the tribe</span> to retribalize as one-tribe with a common altruistic, benevolent, intelligent and empathic process. Interacting processing. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Anton Wilson General Intelligence</span>, simply, or relatively simply <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/07/19/gpt-3-is-amazingand-overhyped/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">exploiting <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GPT-3</span></a>could be trained on his writings about the eight circuit, twenty-four state model, multi-model agnosticism and general semantics, a good honest RAW diet. Wilson performs understanding consistently in his writings, referencing and quoting thousands of quality critters, adding his twist. Wilson’s lifework demonstrates comprehensive explanatory knowledge over five decades. The dozen historical characters from his unfinished work, the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tale of the trib</span>e, produce a finite web of innovators and progressive minds, together with RAW himself they bootstrap a broad interdisciplinary gang of general intelligence agents, heretics with integrity. Plus, I’d boost up the input with some Lenny Bruce, Three Stooges and George Carlin, don’t let my mumbles about RAW cause you to forget he’s a sitdown comedian boss. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m calling, hear me now, for an<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> international interdisciplinary RAW Research Group</span> and I’d like to propose three initial categories. </p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 27px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWAGI Hard </span>explanatory knowledge. e.g physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry.</li></ol><ol start="2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 27px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWAGI Soft </span>explanatory knowledge. e.g writings on philosophy, social sciences, psychology, mysticism and conspiracy theory, science fiction.</li></ol><ol start="3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 27px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">RAWAGI </span>poetic floppy explanatory knowledge. e.g. Fiction, satire, poetry, comedy.</li></ol><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I feel fortunate to be in orbit with many in the field of Robert Anton Wilson studies, reaching across all three of the above and beyond, way out the ground. I sincerely hope to ignite interest in thinkers to consider contributing a word or two, head-nod in support, or shaking of the head in critical feedback. I’m largely in support of <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AGI</span>, Artificial Intelligence Research, Deep Learning and Machine Intelligence Programs and some corresponding research, those reading this with a technophobic bias will now try harder to distinguish their voice from the chorus of populist garbage streaming from the toxic populist media outlets. That said, I’m equally critical or indeed <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more</span> critical than said technophobic detractors, in attempting to look at the myriad of factors and questions and suspend my limited judgement and opinions, I’m no more willing to accept any technocratic robot overlords than anybody else but we have to try harder to distinguish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">livingry from killingry.</a> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leaving Wilson’s writing and lectures aside for a moment, I’d like to present individuals from history, their principles and their methodologies, relevant to today’s theme. These are all featured in Wilson’s, the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tale of the tribe</span>, arguably the least amount of individuals resulting in the maximum connectivity to all other human explanatory knowledge, some were rebels and heretics too. I’d hazard a bet that Wilson intended these beloved influences on him to make up a Wilsonian flavoured history of decentralized philosophy, information theory, media, language and internet. Let’s run with that, like the triangular doodle with legs he sketched. The following is another slalom through RAWs ALL-STAR-CAST, as defined and noted in the back of his book <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution. </span> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Giordano Bruno is a well known example of new explanatory knowledge creation–in this case decentralized cosmology and heliocentrism–slowed down by forces of god damned ignorance. The list of thinkers. their new methods and related principles that Bruno influenced after he was burnt alive at the stake, construct a lineage through history leading up to Leary and Wilson and to the<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> tale of the tribe</span>. Bruno’s combination of hard and soft explanatory knowledge, in some sense, presents a challenge to distinguish one from another, decentralized social systems such as Mutualism, syndicalism and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">anarcho-communism</a> seem compatible with decentralized modern peer-to-peer systems, anticipatory democracy and cooperative world-around-intelligent resource management. I see connections everywhere I look and I dearly hope you see them too. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Giambattista Vico exhibits masses of exquisite work focused on epistemology and 18th century explanatory knowledge, condensing what came before him into a more general system of knowledge. He was no friend of the church, traceable to such RAW nodes as Karl Popper, James Joyce and Marshall McLuhan. Perhaps, in the soft explanatory knowledge category, Vico provides any training set with a solid historically verifiable node or time-stub, trackable up to the present day. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Friederich Nietzsche, a granddaddy of many AGI concerns, the eternal return, infinite flux of beingness and the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Superman</span>, all went a way to updating the explanatory knowledge that came before him for his and our time, before his time, and including currents of Bruno and Vico. Boldly taking on outdated theological and social principles and using rigorous logical deduction and reasoning, together with a poetic turn of prose to raise hell. Tracking his influence on those who condensed and clarified his principles evokes a series of branches pushing upwards and outwards to the sky, alternatively they trace roots back in time, so deeper underground. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce. Three fathers of modernism and performers by the example of the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tale of the tribe</span>, each created epic poems including history and cut their own paths into and out of, moving beyond language (is that even possible, I mean wow). Their three great works, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A-Vision, The Cantos</span> and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finnegans Wake</span> are perfect texts for training RAW General Intelligence, poetry containing high uncertainty, so low predictability, so…high information. <a href="http://peterchrisp.blogspot.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finnegans Wake</span></a> in particular, due to the immense volume of published criticism about it and due to its reach into thousands of interdisciplinary fields of academia worldwide, seems obviously central training, or A.G.I boot-camp, for deep learning and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Intelligence </span>algorithms to get lit. Powerful and continually surprising, novel, like fidget spinners, able to survive into the 2020s and keep producing new fields of study, seemingly without end. Pound’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ideogrammic method</span> and explanatory knowledge about oriental, Asiatic and Chinese languages, is a ttott training set that might make RAW smile authentically. Non-simultaneously apprehended events, interacting, processing. Ideogram and Alphabet. <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alphabet vs. The Equation</span>. TV and Internet, Joyce/Shannon/Pound/McLuhan, all these fertile places have academic tentacles and underground social roots to begin a comparative study and construct a hierarchy of values, spur on the discussion toward putting the people into <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People’s Intelligence.</span> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sound to light and voice to image translation algorithms built on probabilistic reasoning and game theory, lead me straight back to the<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> tale of the tribe.</span> To reverse engineer principles and methods and explanatory knowledge systems that impacted Internet and global digital communications, by doing so creating a people’s general intelligence network, open source, spreading backwards and fanning outwards through history, countered by compassionate measured genius all night long. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Buckminster Fuller. A dazzling example of hard explanatory knowledge creation, and independently focused problem solving, ergo, design-science engineering. Fuller, like Wilson is a picture postcard definition of <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Intelligence</span>(comprehensive thinking) and Fuller exhibits dozens of real world examples of how comprehensive knowledge, or explanatory knowledge, can combine to create powerful problem solving tools: Synergetics, Dymaxion geometry, Tensegrity structures, world-around interconnected systems. Fuller also exhibited soft and poetic explanatory knowledge through long poems, neologisms and an ability to speak at length maintaining a rigorous operationalist, no bullshit, language. Together with Karl Popper, I view the Popper/Fuller methods the best examples of what explanatory knowledge is, and why it relates to the open society and cooperative initiatives to share and build better systems of explanatory knowledge. The opposite of lies, deceit and disinformation in the name of business, spy games and slowing progress. Fuller knew that the way to overcome obstacles is to obsolete them using superior explanatory knowledge, with an accent on <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">planetary.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Claude Shannon And Norbert Wiener. The<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> tale of the tribe</span> gets technically complex with the works of Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener. Information Theory and Cybernetics respectively. Mathematicians and engineers, both these hard scientists are featured in Wilson’s digital-dozen and make the explicit time-stub in history, and specific innovation in explanatory knowledge: Shannon’s 1948 paper “<a href="http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mathematical Theory Of Communication</span></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>”. Any and all computer programs, software and digital technologies will have grandfather Shannon signature somewhere in the system. Training a deep learning or <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AGI</span> algorithm on Claude Shannon’s work is in itself a strange loop as it’s already doing that by design. In the context of Shannon’s historical position, the roots of who came before and the branches of who came after, Wilson goes to the source of the hard mathematical principles at work underneath the hood of our Internet browsers and hyper-connected devices. Note that,<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Finnegans Wake</span> is mentioned explicitly in Shannon’s groundbreaking paper as an example of extreme low-redundancy of information, or predictability, in the English language.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weiner and John von Neumann, another of Wilson’s quality critters, started the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Macy Conferences</a>, moving the focus toward biology “Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems”. </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 64px; position: relative; quotes: "" ""; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Markov chains are used throughout information processing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Claude Shannon</a>‘s famous 1948 paper<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"> A Mathematical Theory of Communication</a>, which in a single step created the field of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">information theory</a>, opens by introducing the concept of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">entropy</a> through Markov modeling of the English language. Such idealized models can capture many of the statistical regularities of systems.”–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Information_and_computer_science" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Information_and_computer_science</a></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alfred Korzybski. The key to Korzybski place lies in the name of the field he helped create, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Semantics</span>. The reasoning and definition of the word <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General</span>, in <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Semantics,</span> casts us a solid verifiable example of new explanatory knowledge created to further human progress and better communication between equals. Wilson adopts Korzybski’s recommendations in his writing and speaking such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">E-prime </a>and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">space-time binding</span>, adding to the ability of critics and readers and deep learning algorithms, to better distinguish between hard and soft sciences, hard and soft facts and begin to formulate a hierarchy of values. Wilson’s use and recommendation of adopting semantic hygiene add to the attraction of using his comprehensive works as a training set for AGI or is this all too close to what actually happened but nobody wants to give the guy his due credit? Take a peek at <a href="https://rawsemantics.home.blog/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Raw Semantics</a>. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Marshall McLuhan. Besides Wilson, McLuhan’s lifework is a Rosetta Stone for <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tale of the tribe</span>. McLuhan did not produce a single epic poem including history, yet he pulled together most but not all of the threads RAW intended to, explicitly from Giordano Bruno, to Vico and Nietzsche, Yeats, Joyce, Pound, Korzybski, Shannon, Weiner and Fuller. McLuhan condensed hard and soft explanatory knowledge to create a new one, the language of media studies, media effects and the impact of global communications: the global village. McLuhan displayed his ardent generalist in public, he extolled the practice of interdisciplinary study, cross-curricular activities and Popperesque constructive criticism, constant revision and updating, measurement. The distinguishing features between McLuhan and Wilson, besides their similarities, help to broaden the future horizon of media studies. Starting with Bruno rather than Shannon.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Perhaps it’s the history of ideas and principles that came before, the long lineage of ideas leading up to Shannon’s wicked condensation of 3000 years of progress into a new explanatory knowledge: Digital Communications. The historical hidden variables and obstacles (in the human universe) are teachable examples of dangers and forces working to slow down explanatory knowledge and its sharing, universally. One way of looking at the tale of the tribe is as a history of condensation via innovation (usually also definable as the creation of simpler and simpler explanatory knowledge) for example, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Python Programming Language</span> and it’s general intelligence and universal open-sharing process. One step away from the Universal Constructor and/or<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Artificial General Intelligence</span> (and don’t forget <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quantum Computing</span> in the mix). </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My goal here is to wet the appetite of Robert Anton Wilson fans with a road-map to a new deep learning, weak <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A.I</span>. project, rather crudely defined by inputting selected works by Wilson into a existent, off-the-shelf algorithm that will produce a chain of letters, words, sentences and paragraphs, approximating and/or computing other probabilistic methods, to produce a Robert Anton Wilson like, automatically generated text, or voice. Sounds creepy I know, Don’t worry the soundtrack will be super sick too. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For this particular endeavour, I might add that due to relations with the Robert Anton Wilson Trust and <a href="http://www.hilaritaspress.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hilaritas Press</span></a> I can propose a fully authorized collection of texts by RAW, without snatching and stealing any text off the web. This kind of integrity, and willingness to listen and communicate with holders of copyrights and intellectual property is another important factor to be considered when training any AGI, to understand and realize and modify its programming based upon explanatory knowledge about the need for human privacy, and intellectual copyright and correct credits and acknowledgement. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With an integral and consistently empathic individual like Robert Anton Wilson, let us try to start as we mean to go on, by giving credit and thanks for all the shared explanatory knowledge created by such progressive humanitarians, such as RAW, the supporters of his legacy and the ancestors. Epistemology without overbearing authority, multi-model agnosticism, suspended judgement, critical feedback, a fair sense of humour and oodles of sympathy and empathy, yes yes to all that. These are the characteristics I would like to see programmed into <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">deep learning</span> and/or AGI, I suspect that here lie the tangled threads that may lead to encouraging altruism and benevolence, at the same time uncovering as yet unforeseen interpretations of Wilson’s unfinished masterpiece, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the tale of the tribe</span>. Or just have fun with <a href="https://artbreeder.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">GAN Artbreeder.</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The works of J.K Rawling, George R.R Martin, H.P Lovecraft, J.R.R Tolkien and others have been used for weak A.I. research. Let’s plan to design and build a RAW A.I. why not?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If your response is, “I ain’t got time, do it yourself….” it’s all good. I’m reaching out to start a conversation, design a roadmap. The fact Markov Chains, from which RAW took his pseudonyms, Markoff Chainey and Mark Chan underly text-generation algorithms is the epiphany that started me off again.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Please follow these links for an idea of what I hope we can achieve. Thanks for reading. 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress2019/2019/05/16/algohiggs/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/making-a-text-generator-using-markov-chains-e17a67225d10" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/making-a-text-generator-using-markov-chains-e17a67225d10</a></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://chunml.github.io/ChunML.github.io/project/Creating-Text-Generator-Using-Recurrent-Neural-Network/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://chunml.github.io/ChunML.github.io/project/Creating-Text-Generator-Using-Recurrent-Neural-Network/<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf</a> (Language Models are Few-Shot Learners)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 27px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/6045135/Error_Correction_and_Redundancy_in_Finnegans_Wake" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.academia.edu/6045135/Error_Correction_and_Redundancy_in_Finnegans_Wake</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.academia.edu/6045135/Error_Correction_and_Redundancy_in_Finnegans_Wake" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/2008/FS-08-04/FS08-04-049.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/2008/FS-08-04/FS08-04-049.pdf<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="https://goertzel.org/papers/PreservationOfGoals.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://goertzel.org/papers/PreservationOfGoals.pdf<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05267" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05267</a> (What Kind of Programming Language Best Suits Integrative AGI?)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://pcp.vub.ac.be/ECCO/ECCO-papers/Weaver-PhD.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">http://pcp.vub.ac.be/ECCO/ECCO-papers/Weaver-PhD.pdf</a> (Open Ended Intelligence)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://intelligence.org/about/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">https://intelligence.org/about/<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></a><a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky" style="border: 0px; 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Intriguingly, this manuscript would not be published until some 46 years later, having been put aside and then lost for decades. In 1986, RAW wrote The New Inquisition which had as a partial focus the persecution of Timothy Leary and Wilhelm Reich. In some respects, The Starseed Signals seems like an earlier attempt to address that same kind of injustice, as the book was written while Leary was experiencing an inquisition, a victim of the Nixon administration and the general punitive zeitgeist.<br /><br />In his introduction to the book, John Higgs writes,<br /><br />“What’s remarkable about this previously lost and unpublished-until-now manuscript is not only that RAW puts forward the case for Leary’s ideas, but he does so at the time when Leary’s reputation was at its lowest. The sixties were over, and the paranoia of the 70s had begun. Leary was yesterday’s man, lost somewhere deep within the American prison system, denounced by former friends and rumoured to be snitching on the entire counterculture.”<br /><br />RAW addresses Leary’s troubles with insights that will intrigue historians, while also offering delights for those who value Leary’s many contributions to various fields in the social sciences. Of particular note is RAW’s early description of the Eight Circuits Model of Consciousness, which we learn had been a collaborative effort between the two friends. <br /><br />The Starseed Signals stands as a unique title in the Robert Anton Wilson canon, offering a revealing and very personal look at the tumultuous early years of the 1970’s. As John Higgs notes, “You get the Timothy Leary you deserve, as we know. But perhaps we also deserve the Timothy Leary that Robert Anton Wilson got.”<br /><br /><br />“One of the leading thinkers of the modern age.”<br />– Barbara Marx Hubbard<br /><br />“A 21st Century Renaissance Man … funny, wise and optimistic … the Lenny Bruce of philosophers.”<br />– Denver Post<br /><br />“A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness.”<br />– Tom Robbins<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/the-starseed-signals/"> http://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/the-starseed-signals/</a>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-23974150588163280452020-03-23T23:57:00.002+01:002020-03-23T23:57:20.877+01:00Review of Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe by Gregory Arnott <br />My broadest respects and thanks to Gregory Arnott for the kind generous and brilliant review and for sharing a part of his journey alongside and within the theme park.<br /><br />And thanks to Tom Jackson of RAWillumination for the <a href="http://www.rawillumination.net/2019/05/gregory-arnott-reviews-flys-tale-of.html?spref=tw">BLOG POST.</a><br /><br />--Steve Fly<div>
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<br /><br /><br />Gregory Arnott reviews Fly’s ‘<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1981753214/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1">Tale of the Tribe</a>’<br /><div>
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I was a latecomer to Maybe Logic Academy — I was there for its final hurrah in a semester that saw one of the classes I enrolled in cancelled and another with only two active students and an absentee teacher. I can’t even remember how I found out about it — something to do with how one can wander over the Internet while working a boring office job. Anyways, that was where I first heard about <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Tale of the Tribe</i>.</div>
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Later, after I had read more about the Tribe and had read <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">TSOG</i> where the most complete piece of information on the book was in print at the time, I was talking about it to my friend as we stood outside looking at the stars on a hot West Virginia night; Robert Anton Wilson was basically going to explain communication, the Internet, and what was going on. My friend laughed — “finally!” he exclaimed. Robert Anton Wilson had been dead at least five years.</div>
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To say that Wilson’s unfinished <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tale</i> felt like a loss is an understatement. In one issue of Alan Moore’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tom Strong</i> the perfect man finds his heart’s desire as an illusion conjured up by a malignant alien intelligence; a copy of Joyce’s sequel to <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finnegans Wake, Finn Wakes Agen</i>. In Steven Moore’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Somnium</i> the protagonist in the protagonist’s novel finds himself in a library of unwritten novels. There’s something sublime about an unpublished work or some valuable manuscript lost to time; it has been easy for me to remain tantalized by the lost promise of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tribe</i>.</div>
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This is all a rather lengthy way to say I was excited when I saw the release of Steven “Fly” Pratt’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Tale-Tribe-Rollercoaster-Robert-ebook/dp/B07LB3Q65X" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c7c7c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.6px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Fly On The Tale of the Tribe</a>.</i> Pratt’s book is slim but dense with information — it’s playful and thought provoking. Fly deals with the Current Situation and how Wilson’s ideas have endured into our young century; appropriately for one of the torchbearers of model agnosticism, the book is full of promise and puzzles. Like Higgs at the end of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stranger Than We Can Imagine,</i> Pratt seems to bank on agnosticism as a solution to the increasingly chaotic information climate: but that’s beside the point as I believe Pratt is more interested in inspiration than pontification.</div>
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Much of the book is invitational — Pratt repeats throughout that it is critical to create one’s own “tale of the tribe.” One excellent example is given earlier in the book when Pratt points out that his and RAW’s cast of characters are all male — Pratt gives an example of a female “tribe” beginning with Ada Lovelace. Later in the book Fly lays out the schemes for two later tale of the tribe courses that could be reconstructed by the intrepid student. Pratt also gives a healthily circumspect view of Ezra Pound and his complicated life; at one point Pratt seems to decide upon using Ernest Fenollosa as the primary touchstone for Pound’s contribution to the tale of the tribe, ideogrammic language, as a deft sidestep when the fascist taint becomes too much with Pound. Of course Pratt makes sure to mention that Pound’s antisemitism was a phase that the poet regretted in later life. Everyone’s happy.</div>
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The most interesting ideas, for this reader, were the discussions of the hologrammic prose exemplified by <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finnegans Wake</i> and, this part really hooked me, Alan Moore’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</i>. Fly is one of the few commentators I’ve seen who have given Moore his due: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</i> is a monumental masterpiece that will rank high among our race’s literary achievements if Providence is kind enough to ensure some sort of posterity. Fly is able to explicate how breathtaking the scope of the work is, as it encompasses art, magic, and the facets of our reality, and we seem to have similar tastes, go figure, since we both consider the chapter “Round the Bend” as the crowning achievement of the novel. (He even shares my love of Moore’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Black Dossier!</i>) In many ways “Round the Bend” serves as a magnificent realization of Tom Strong’s lost novel — it is a sequel or a continuation of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finnegans Wake</i>. The whole of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jerusalem</i> could be seen as something similar or as an essential commentary on Joyce’s goals but that would belie the empirical majesty of Moore’s work.</div>
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While talking about the epic Cosmic Trigger play produced and directed by Daisy Eris Campbell Fly waxes rhapsodical: “Co-create a Universe, a theatre of the mind where each and everyone of us can work on many levels of synchrony, consider set and setting, speech and place. Make the invisible visible.” Marching orders to make one’s head turn.</div>
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Pratt’s little book will give the reader a lot to think about and chew on — it is a text that is meant to send you into the hinterlands of language to find the foundations of our reality. I’ve brushed over a lot of Fly’s work in the book, partly for the sake of length and partly because I am still figuring out my thoughts and plans for the ideas he brings to the table. Suffice to say that this is an indispensable piece of scholarship for the RAW fan and an all around Important Book. RAW’s original book may have not been able to come to life but Fly proves that the tale of the tribe is still being told and is ready to be explored at any moment. Personally, I’m just grateful Fly made sure to include Moore in RAW’s canon. The book’s cover art is by, the Tenniel to RAW’s Carroll, Bobby Campbell whose illustrations implicitly make a connection between Fly and the green-skinned Mescalito. Pay attention.</div>
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As a postscript to the Maybe Logic story — it was through Maybe Logic that I found Tom’s blog so even when the initial attraction is in bits and pieces it can lead to something satisfying. The tale of the tribe isn’t over until the last monkey stops squawking.</div>
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--FlySteve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0Amsterdam, Netherlands52.3702157 4.895167899999933152.2150437 4.5724443999999327 52.5253877 5.2178913999999335tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-36231961734930231692018-04-04T12:11:00.000+02:002018-04-04T12:11:10.809+02:00Alan Moore In Conversation With Youth<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/262588753" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/262588753">Alan Moore in conversation with Youth - Super Weird Happening, April 01, 2017</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user3514321">Jahski</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2e3b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.16px;">The 14 hour Super Weird Happening at the Florrie, Liverpool 8, was a day of wonderment, inspiration and discovery. The highlight, for many, was the conversation between Alan Moore and Youth. If anything is gonna make you get off your arse and do something about the talent inside of you, this is it. Just do it!</span></blockquote>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-70823330630394788182018-03-28T01:49:00.000+02:002018-03-28T01:49:01.069+02:00Coincidance: A Head Test by Robert Anton Wilson. <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coincidance-Head-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0998713422">This,</a> for my money, is the most spectacular non-fiction work that Wilson ever penned, breathtakingly adventurous in both its content and its strikingly experimental form. Uncertain and demonstrably uncaring whether it’s a piece of literary criticism, metaphysical discussion or anthology of diverse esoteric writings, this remarkable compendium is best seen, in the spirit of its title, as a glorious accidental dance of meaning, modernism and mythology. - Alan Moore, from his introduction to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coincidance-Head-Robert-Anton-Wilson/dp/0998713422">Coincidance</a> – The Robert Anton Wilson Trust Authorized Hilaritas Press Edition</span></blockquote>
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-46614163465490192322018-02-19T15:37:00.003+01:002018-02-19T15:37:37.558+01:00Deep Code Experiments by Jordan GreenhallI was delighted to recently
stumble upon (by way of a Twitter retweet by Cory Doctorow) these fresh video's from Jason Greenhall, exploring various scenarios, maps, models and metaphors worthy of your contemplation, and for anybody interested in 'the tale of the tribe'.<br /><br />
Among many other thinkers--while listening to these bite sized chunks of progressive social futurism--I get signals from Buckminster Fuller and his all-around-the-world cooperative, synegetics, and generally his anti-rivalry design science solutions. I get signals from Marshall McLuhan, and from Giamabttista Vico, and have begun to apply some of the 8-Circuit Model, to these social psychological, cultural, political, economic models defined by Jordan. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing the video's, I look forward to more posts. <br />
--Steve Fly<br /><br /><br />
[Deep Code Experiment] Episode 1: 4 Layer Model of Social Systems
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-31970557101841791282018-02-19T15:22:00.000+01:002018-02-19T15:22:16.547+01:00Fly By Night 248: Do It<iframe width="100%" height="400" src="https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2FRadioFreeAmsterdam%2Ffly-by-night-248-do-it%2F" frameborder="0" ></iframe>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-90487048141865294072018-01-03T02:57:00.001+01:002018-01-03T02:57:44.680+01:00DJ Fly with Alan Hertz & Friends - Rumours Lounge - Eureaka - California 2003<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/ahf2003-08-21.flac16" width="500" height="140" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-27201450543718917272017-05-13T15:15:00.000+02:002017-05-13T15:15:28.287+02:00Rockers, artists pay tribute to James Joyce with massive project<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“What I found out,” says Pyle, “was that there were all these niches and subcultures — dead heads, punk rockers, out-there artists, avant-garde classical musicians, Robert Anton Wilson fans — and within their subcultures ‘Finnegans Wake’ has a lot of importance. ... What I think happened was we were able to bring together a bunch of niches, people who were interesting and also supportive — that cult thing, when you’re really into something, you’re really into something. We brought together those people as both audience and contributors.”<br />http://www.telegram.com/entertainmentlife/20170510/rockers-artists-pay-tribute-to-james-joyce-with-massive-project</blockquote>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-87709908639791987792017-05-04T16:55:00.001+02:002017-05-04T16:55:09.661+02:00A note to Bob<br />Dear Bob,<br /><br />the world seems so messy without you, and we all miss your social commentary and King Kong like presence on the underground. Raw heads still turn to you for the clearest perspective on any particular issue, be it concerning intelligent signals from outer space, the perils of totalitarian government, any conspiracy you can think of, no matter how wild or crazy (as nothing could be stranger than the truth) We miss your humor and willingness to confront the boogie man in every corner of the cultural living room, where others fear to tread. <br /><br />new readers are discovering your books daily, both fiction and non-fiction (oh whats the difference these days?) i dream of picking apart the bride of Illuminatus with a 10'000 strong, open on-line community, and to witness the films and games and weird works dedicated to you light up your face. Shit, it's easy to forget how well you're ideas are preserved due to your due diligence when writing. You might chuckle to see us all pushing onwards into the dark woods with the world on our shoulders, taking on the TSOG with art and magic. May you rest in peace, and continue to extrude your ubiquitous entanglement with those who wish to tune in. Please visit at any time.<br /><br />--Steve FlySteve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-44602755412837064482017-03-02T00:02:00.000+01:002017-03-02T00:02:07.797+01:00INTRODUCTION THE TALE OF THE TRIBE - Michael André Bernstein<div class="contrib" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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INTRODUCTION THE TALE OF THE TRIBE "I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase 'a long poem' is simply a contradiction in terms. . . . If at any time, any very long poem were popular in reality—which I doubt—it is at least clear that no very long poem will ever be popular again." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"<br /><br />1 "A heroic poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform." —John Dryden, "Dedication Of The Aeneis"</div>
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2 In 1920, Georg Lukacs published a critical study entitled The Theory of the Novel. The subtitle of this work, "A historicophilosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature," announces Lukacs' decision to treat the novel as the fundamental form of epic literature in modern writing. Subsequently, he justifies this decision, explaining: The epic and the novel, these two major forms of great epic literature differ from one another not by their author 's fundamental intentions but by the given historico -philosophical realities with which the authors were confronted. The novel is the epic of an age in which the extensive totality of life is no longer directly given, in which the immanence of meaning in life has become the problem, yet which still thinks in terms of totality.</div>
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4 · INTRODUCTION regarded as uniquely suited to attempt such a task) was by no means original with, or restricted to, Lukacs. Rather, he is representative of a widely shared attitude: a narrowing of the sphere regarded as "appropriate" for verse, which any poet seeking to equal the breadth of scope and subject matter of great novelists was compelled to confront. In 1917, when Ezra Pound began to publish his long modern verse epic, The Cantos, he was distinctly nervous about the problematic nature of his undertaking, and in the unrevised version of Canto I, he speculates whether it would not be wiser to "sulk and leave the word to novelists."</div>
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4 As late as 1922, after he had already completely revised the poem's opening and published the first eight Cantos, Pound's correspondence reveals a man still anxiously defending the ambitious intentions of his work-in-progress: "Perhaps as the poem goes on I shall be able to make various things clearer. Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length, I have to stagger as I can." (L:180) Underlying both Lukacs' critical pronouncement and Pound's initial self-doubt is a questioning of the essential nature of poetic discourse, of the formal limits within which the special language of verse must move if it is to remain faithful to its fundamental character as poetry. The question is really one of "decorum" in the full classical sense, an attempt to discover anew which modes of literary presentations are intrinsically most suitable to the different areas of human experience. By the end of the First World War, a verse epic was not so much a form as an oxymoron, an anachronism that seemed to violate what many poets as well as critics had come to regard as the characteristic structure and horizon of poetic discourse. Edgar Allan Poe's strictures against the long poem in "The Poetic Principle" (1848) exercised a profound influence throughout the nineteenth century, especially upon the decisive figures in the development of modern French verse— Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, and Arthur Rimbaud —but, in their own writings, Poe's argument was taken up as only one aspect of a fundamental upheaval in the connection between language as a literary, poetic artifact and the INTRODUCTION · </div>
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2154699950576339769.post-37889643592612864072017-02-14T00:39:00.002+01:002017-02-14T00:39:58.739+01:00Kurt Vonnegut on Paul Krassner and his poster - Fuck Socialism<br /><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;">
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<span>Paul Krassner, 63 at this writing (1996), old enough to be my baby brother,</span><br /><span>in 1963 created a miracle of compressed intelligence nearly as admirable for</span><br /><span>potent simplicity, in my opinion, as Einstein¹s e=mc2. With the Vietnam War</span><br /><span>going on, and with its critics discounted and scorned by the government and</span><br /><span>the mass media, Krassner put on sale a red, white and blue poster that said</span><br /><span>FUCK COMMUNISM.</span></div>
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<span>At the beginning of the 1960s, FUCK was believed to be so full of bad magic</span><br /><span>as to be unprintable. In the most humanely influential American novel of</span><br /><span>this half century, "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield, it will be</span><br /><span>remembered, was shocked to see that word on a subway-station wall. He</span><br /><span>wondered what seeing it might do to the mind of a little kid. COMMUNISM was</span><br /><span>to millions the name of the most loathsome evil imaginable. To call an</span><br /><span>American a communist was like calling somebody a Jew in Nazi Germany. By</span><br /><span>having FUCK and COMMUNISM fight it out in a single sentence, Krassner wasn¹t</span><br /><span>merely being funny as heck. He was demonstrating how preposterous it was</span><br /><span>for so many people to be responding to both words with such cockamamie</span><br /><span>Pavlovian fear and alarm.</span></div>
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<span>What hasn¹t been said about that poster, and surely not by Krassner, is that</span><br /><span>its author was behaving harmoniously with most of the Ten Commandments, the</span><br /><span>Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States and the Sermon on</span><br /><span>the Mount. So, too, were his now-dead friends Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman</span><br /><span>and Jerry Rubin, roundly denounced and even arrested for bad manners and</span><br /><span>impudence, and now mourned and celebrated as heroes, which indeed they were,</span><br /><span>in this important book. They were prophets, too, at the service of humanity</span><br /><span>in jeering, like the prophets of old, at mean-spirited hypocrisies and</span><br /><span>stupidities and worse that were making their society a hell, whether there</span><br /><span>was a God or not.</span></div>
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<span>And this book is emphatically not nostalgic, but raffishly responsive to the</span><br /><span>here and now. Nor are decades like chains of knockwursts, sutured off from</span><br /><span>one another at either end. To think of them as such, the 1950s, the 1960s,</span><br /><span>the 1970s and so on, is merely a mnemonic device. The only 1960s people are</span><br /><span>those who died back then. Everyone alive today has no choice but to be,</span><br /><span>like Paul Krassner, a 1990s person. Krassner does a good job of that. So</span><br /><span>should we all.</span></div>
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<span>I told Krassner one time that his writings made me hopeful. He found this</span><br /><span>an odd compliment to offer a satirist. I explained that he made supposedly</span><br /><span>serious matters seem ridiculous, and that this inspired many of his readers</span><br /><span>to decide for themselves what was ridiculous and what was not. Knowing that</span><br /><span>there were people doing that, better late than never, made me optimistic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.paulkrassner.com/vonnegut.htm">http://www.paulkrassner.com/vonnegut.htm</a></span></div>
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