i enjoyed reading your zine that you handed out the other night i think i need to re-read it a few times to really.. grasp what you are tryin to say but i just wanted to say that i have read it.. and thank ya!
funny the hello kitty thing sorta reminds me ov Party Monster (tho i've yet to see the movie version with Macaulay Culkin) but alot worst i guess since Angel (dude who got killed) wasn't tortured first, it's more the drugs and dismembering part that's similar.
Yon link is disturbing shit. However, the connection of amoral disconnection from pain and Hello Kitty reminds me of something in W.S. Burroughs' "The Cat Inside", where he talks about the cat as Familiar, and its relation to empathy as the domestication of the cat focused on the human instinct to nurture. He also relates that the initiation to get into the S.S. in Nazi Germany required prospective members to care for a cat, feed and cuddle with it, for a month, then gouge out its eyes and kill it with their bare hands.
He uses that story as the basis for a little riff about "selling your soul for power" - the point being that in order to be able to do such a thing, you have to disconnect yourself from reality and not truly experience it, in which case it isn't even really YOU that has the power, as "you" have removed yourself elsewhere... So even then, the power is unsatisfying because you've lost the ability to truly experience anything.
Hakim Bey/P.L. Wilson talks about the "emergence of separation and heirarchy" a bunch - always the two stuck together. Power-Over (Starhawk's term - I know, I know) does seem to necessarily involve cutting oneself off from the world, a severing of connections in one direction.
I think that's a reason why many "psychoses" focus on the desire for power of one kind or another - both involve that disconnection from directly sensed reality.
or worried aboooooooout... how i personally would react? [that's just assuming i'm super important and worthy ov the whole will i approve er... thing... or... some such... *cough*]
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can't shake this track.
thanks punkIn.
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i think i need to re-read it a few times to really.. grasp what you are tryin to say
but i just wanted to say that i have read it.. and thank ya!
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ty much bro, means alot.
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funny the hello kitty thing sorta reminds me ov Party Monster (tho i've yet to see the movie version with Macaulay Culkin) but alot worst i guess since Angel (dude who got killed) wasn't tortured first, it's more the drugs and dismembering part that's similar.
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i'll see about getting a copy to you guys.
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He uses that story as the basis for a little riff about "selling your soul for power" - the point being that in order to be able to do such a thing, you have to disconnect yourself from reality and not truly experience it, in which case it isn't even really YOU that has the power, as "you" have removed yourself elsewhere... So even then, the power is unsatisfying because you've lost the ability to truly experience anything.
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..........i think most of the people i've met who have "power" are oddly disconnected.
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I think that's a reason why many "psychoses" focus on the desire for power of one kind or another - both involve that disconnection from directly sensed reality.
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and other dissociative drug use?
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thanks muchly for tha zine btw... awesome read... and sveet cdrom full ov goodies. =^.^=
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i'm glad the zine made you smile, i was a bit worried :)
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*blinks*
or worried aboooooooout... how i personally would react? [that's just assuming i'm super important and worthy ov the whole will i approve er... thing... or... some such... *cough*]
OHLOOKPLAYDOH! *hides*
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