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I think I was thinking of rotten.com... get those names mixed up. :slanted: although I do see a lot of SA's similarities, in the pranks, irreverence, and being another source of memes, with /b/ culture, even if Goons don't go quite as far as /b/tards. (though there's some anarchy on all those...

oh yeah, their popular cry "TITS... or GTFO!" that pretty much sums the place up... :rolleyes::) it's funny that people ever assumed the a total free-for-all online would lead to this utopia, huh? Not that there aren't a lot of awesome, very progressive things about the internet (it's...

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agreed, I definitely don't see it as an them-vs-us thing, because aren't marketers to a degree "giving the people what they want"? (although it's more complicated, I think they're trying to encourage certain parts of our nature, but we're guilty in accepting and reflecting it). We're all, as...

Nice! I came upon this book recently... "Media Virus" by Douglas Rushkoff... who describes the way that memes can spread through a combination of novelty/usefulness/charisma.... it's very interesting, and while he seems more to be describing the way marketers and cultural engineers are...

I don't mean sociopathy as a natural mental condition, my bad. More that the behavior there is psychotic, and is a question of morality, (amidst the effects of a lot of factors)... in that it is simply inhumanly cruel and impossible to condone. To the point that the social factors that are...

I think it's partly the anonymity, and partly its roots. The board was created by a 15 year old kid who came from Something Awful (a site centered around shocking pictures), so maybe that reveals where some of the tone came from. Also, its creator made the board to be an anime picture fansite...

Oh absolutely. I mentioned the Cyberdelic people on the Psychedlia thread, and a big idea with them, was this anarchist assumption that the total freedom of the internet was going to bring out the best possibilities in people, that we'd all come together and evolve together in this utopian...

That's a good question. I think it's easy to want to romanticize the "natural" self, especially if you're of a liberal mind a lot of us. To want to believe that we would all be good to each other if we had total freedom of expression, like that's the end-all and there's nothing else in life...

yeah, I'm also not usually fond of simple, reductive explanations of anything either, especially for things as messy as social issues, with all the biological, economic, media, marketing, moral, and familial factors to take into account. /b/ is what it is for a lot of reasons, some very...

4chan unpretentious? :/ "Anonymous" is something I'm somewhat familiar with, because I'm kind of interested in the multimedia communicative and creative possibilies of internet meme culture, and the (much more creative and interesting) memetic scenius over at Ytmnd sometimes admits that their...

I think the brush on the ride, and hi hat, in the slower 40s/50s/60s jazz can recall falling snow, esp in the more despondent and nostalgic songs, (as opposed to the more hustle-and-bustle, warm jams, though even the warmer songs have kind of a stay cozy in the winter feel) So a lot of Holiday...

eh, somewhat up my alley, I suppose... ;) Like his talk in the first vid about self-progamming/deprogramming, something I'm rather interested in myself. That 90s San Fran/Silicon Valley "cyberdelic" scene... McKenna, R. U. Sirius, Davis, Rushkoff, Mondo 2000, Whole Earth Catalog, the Well...

yeah, the man could definitely use some E :) Yeah, I think so. "They" expect "us" to come at them with Woodie Guthrie-style protest ballads at this point (maaaaan ;)). We have to continue to throw curves. I'm half joking I guess, right now I'd rather have a revolution of unity as opposed to...

wat exactly, first thing I thought. Meaning and significance?... This decade? I mean, I'll sometimes think about music's relationship to the times too, I'm not going to fault him for that, but this is one of the most backwards think-pieces on music I've ever read. There are different...

I'm sorry, this would take to long to get into... but I guess I could just say that on a lot of traditional levels, practitioners and believers in Animism, Hinduism, Catholic Mass, Hermeticism, Egyptian Magic, Greek Mysteries and Cults, Lutheran Litergies, Shintoism, Chaos Magicians, New Agers...

btw, I tend to totally agree with you, and most everyone else on here, on social issues, and by Old Testament standards I'd probably had been stoned to death by now, as would a lot of us I suppose. this is why I meant to stay off the thread, I'm not willing to write off the possibility of a...

Which moral choices people make and their alignments or non-alignments aren't univeral, but the processes and traditions of paganism totally are.

I know about racism and the South, half of my family is Southern, though fortunately not racist. Christ was Jewish, and he meant his message for everyone. The racists were idiots.

Paganism is something I know a bit about, and have explored myself. I didn't mean to use it as a derogation either. And it doesn't necessarily imply human sacrifice, though there usually is the concept that people have to defer to higher powers. That said, it's all basically based on the same...