Carpman

Frontier Psychiatrist (Single) The Avalanches. 2000.

Ok, a little background. (Rant not entirely relevant. Skip to bold below for thread.) 2-3 years ago, I used to spend a lot of time on the internet. No big deal, I guess. But I spent all my time here...every waking moment. It was most of my life. Now, still, not entirely out of the ordinary. especially for someone who at the time war 14-15 years old and not entirely popular outside of his own little world. The difference was, for one, I was literate. Seeing that text was the dominant medium of communication on the internet, my lack of social skills and relative superiority over others my own age, in terms of writing, meant that I overshadowed my peers and even came across as older than them. Of course, at the time I was sheltered. I didn't venture beyond, into the harsh backwaters of the internet. In time, I did. I found what it was actually full of. Cretins, creatures without any sense of civilised discourse or humanity. And that was the best of it. Upon returning to my previously hallowed websites I saw that I was surrounded by mewling infants intent of lying their way to attention, every remark false and mulled upon for hours before typing. Of course, I was guilty of the same time. So at the time, I snapped. To several communities, I made a statement, mostly coarse and vulgar, and left. And I return, a few years later, and I find that the web hasn't got any better. It is still populated seemingly entirely by wealthy pre-teens with a penchant for illiteracy. it is still a safe haven for liars and frauds in the pursuit of attention and sympathy, and it is still a petty, gross shell of what it possibly could have been. Nothing has changed. So. I am going to ask you...have you ever fallen out of love with the internet? And if not...why not?

Originally posted by: JanYpe Hmm, I'd kind of assumed he meant that dolt from the first page of the thread. The one who knows the big wikipedia admins. Exactly the kind of petulant user wikipedia doesn't need.quote> *Checks first page. Groans.* Now there, you have a point. Looks like somebody went a bit power-tripped. And it seems this guy will be doing a Request For Adminship soon...Hm. *Returns, fedora-tipped into the night*

Originally posted by: Yoshiisland Originally posted by: haljackey Yoshiisland: Hey, lets not point fingers at anyone. We all have our own opinions about this matter. The more positive feedback we get, the better the chances of saving this article. One update: I did do some editing with the NAM section, and I also added an additional picture to the section. You can view it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtropolisquote> Sorry about that haljackey, I didn't mean to point fingers at anyone. I just didn't like the fact that someone would join ST just to come on here and tell us how ignorant and insignificant we are; that's not what this site is for. I apologize if I offended anyone. -Yoshiislandquote> Mate, I didn't join "just for that". Note the join date, hun =)

I performed one of the recent "cuts", removing a lot of the cruft. Folks, this is a great site with a lot of community, but a lot of that article is frankly pap. Guys. It's a 4 year old game. There are plenty of good communities out there with fantastic communities, but in the future, will people need to know? Do people need to know NOW?

Working at Tesco is hideous! Every moment I spend there is like a further part of my soul being wrenched from my body. And, to top it off, admin have told me I won't get paid until the 15th now, so I missed last payday (I started working there just a few days too late...). Which means I have a grand total of

Never watched the whole thing through. Prefer the graphic novel. Actually, reading about Cleanfeed sparked this. It's an absurd idea and a sign the British government if going the way of the US. This is precisely the problem, sadly. The people have been conditioned in such a way to think that all the problems are just far too big for them to deal with. For the most part, they are right. Unless the people are organised. But sadly, large groups don't work...usually. The only way we can fight this is through mass action. Organised, and dare I say, violent if necessary. If we all just assume action will not work, we will wake up with nothing left. My problem is less with the issue itself...people know the issues. They aren't new. My issue is with the intense apathy I'm feeling from those that claim to be concerned. The most I can do is write pamphlets, and distribute them in the city centre. At the moment. Although some will balk and brush people such as myself with "You are reading too much etc...", I am quite seriously of the opinion that the populace of the western world needs to consider direct and extensive attacks at the very infrastructure of government.

(Posted here because, to date, I am yet to find a community that matches this one in terms of members that respond thoughtfully and with relevance) Let me tell you a little bit about dystopia. We read these books, we play these games, that depict dystopias as grey, hideous worlds where the military stalk the streets in black battle armour, and the world is generally pretty *****. We would love to think that, if the world were to change to this image, we would know and we would fight. We would be the gallant rebels, dodging through the metropolis, bandana fixed and rifles posed, and we would know we are in the right. So why, when the evidence is all around us, have people not noticed? I will tell you why. Because the sky is still blue. Because the food is still fresh and the cars are still fast. We still have the material wants fulfilled in life, so we feel that somehow, the world can't be that bad. We ignore the stories. We ignore the peaceful protests that are broken up by a rain of rubber bullets. We ignore the secret prison camps and the abolition of a fair trial. We ignore the fact that we can be watched every hour of every day by cameras on every damn street corner. The most many can get around to doing is bleating some kind of vague disapproval, with the tutting wish that "somebody" should "do something", but with the overall opinion that it isn't their place or their job. We have been lulled into a political sleep, uncaring and disaffected from the world. At any hint of a kind of direct action, there will be cries of "with nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear!". Such was true in Orwell's 1984, and true in Stalin's lace>Russialace>. Simply play by the rules, and you had nothing to fear. But we have gone beyond the point where we can continue playing by the rules. I read stories of this "Cleanfeed", an ISP-side content filtering system that will return a 404 whenever a site on a preset list is accessed. It will be a mandatory addition to all ISPs by the end of 2007. The implications of this I should not have to outline, but then, I should not have to be writing this in the first place. With this technology, the government could simply pretend a web site does not exist. It is a fantastic tool for the suppression of voices, in the place where they should be most free. Slowly but surely, our freedoms have been removed. Few still realise that, the government willing, any one person could be detained without a trial and, especially if they are in lace>Americalace> (A nation most tellingly stricken with this cancer), possibly detained indefinitely at prison camps. I am not simply talking about the infamous lace>lacetype>Camplacetype> lacename>Deltalacename>lace>, but even the secret camps all over lace>Europelace>. Previously, there was a small, quiet outrage when these camps were being set up, in lace>Polandlace> and over European countries. But now they have been forgotten about, the media more concerned with the latest cat of a celebrity. Camps in lace>Polandlace>, where detainees are secretly and illegally flown to be held indefinitely. The biting parallels with one of this century's greatest atrocities should not have to be said. The situation is apathy. I, too, have been apathetic before now. It has always been my opinion that the world could never get too bad. "Somebody" would stop it. How hopelessly naive of me, and how fooled I was. We have been deceived and will continue to be deceived. We will never realise. Whatever happens, it will eventually become "normal". The way things always were. I do not see anyone angry that the government always knows where your car is, do I? Of course not. Soon that will be the case with your body. The case studies are coming thick and fast...RFID chips, for instance, another case where the initial public outcry was there, but faded...no persistence in this world. The view of the public is that if it can't be fixed in five minutes, it is not worth fixing. Now, the chips are everywhere. The latest blows against the public are "flying cameras". In Merseyside, police are using cameras that fly 500m above the ground and can see what is in the palm of your hand. A police drone. Look at any hack job of a science fiction and it will tell you that this is an oppressive government. The mantra of the western world has become "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". The sky is blue and the water clear. So nobody speaks. People are free to go along with their lives so long as they feel not hatred towards anybody else (Note that displaying any kind of hatred towards a group is now classified as "racial hatred" and is illegal, as well as eligible for being blocked by Websense), obey the government, and above all keep our views to blogs and pamphlets. The irony here should not escape you. At this point, this is all I can do. Write a forgettable, short blog about how the world is going to pieces. Part of me hopes that with this, I can spark new anger. Anger that has been long forgotten in the world. But I know it won't happen. I only ask this. Do something, before it is too late. Even if it is only writing to your damn MP, and participating in marches, do something. Because if we don't, I can promise you I know where it is going to go. If nobody does something, one day the dam will burst. One day we shall come, and we shall be armed. We shall be angry. And either you will march alongside us, or you are our enemy. If the Western world wants the future to be marked by bloody revolution, it is headed the right way.

Stone Sour - Bother Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Radiohead - Idioteque The Flaming Lips - All We Have is Now Sigur Ros - Svo Hlj

Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You Stone Sour - Bother Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you SliPKnoT - Eyeless Radiohead - Idioteque Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama Dobie Gray- Drift Away SliPKnoT - Scream Human League - Circus Of Death I've never really enjoyed Johnny Cash. But the Human League? Aye.

Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place The Bangles - Manic Monday Ben Folds - Jesusland Stone Temple Pilots - Plush Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You Modern English - I Melt With You Stone Sour - Bother Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Rolling stones begone! Depeche Mode.

Pink Floyd - Echoes The Clash - Junco Partner REM - Find The River They Might Be Giants - Why does the Sun Shine? Don Henley- Dirty Laundry Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place INXS - Pretty Vegas Nine Inch Nails - Wish Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Free Fallin' A-ha - Take on me Bleh. Foo fighters. I like A-ha.

Death Cab For Cutie can leave. More REM can return. Blur - This Is A Low Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped Weezer - Say it Ain't So Feist - Mushaboom Pink Floyd - Echoes Radiohead - Pyramid Song The Clash - Junco Partner Coldplay - Swallowed in the Sea Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench REM - Find The River

As much as I would love to kick out Slipknot, Radiohead have returned and can leave, now. Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants Blur - This Is A Low Modest Mouse - Bukowski Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost SliPKnoT - (sic) Weezer - Say it Ain't So Feist - Mushaboom Pink Floyd - Echoes

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias The Wonders - That Thing You Do Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants The Beatles - I am the Walrus Children of Bodom-Everytime I die Blur - This Is A Low Modest Mouse - Bukowski SliPKnoT - Surfacing Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out Yoko Kanno - Gotta knock a little harder I find Radiohead whiny.