Take 1, generated by this artifact.
"Now then, we really only have two types of people anymore: those who divide people into two types, and all the rest" -- loose translation of a very old Plautdietsch Mennonite joke
"Don't say words you're gonna regret..." |
From here, he and his wacky wacketeers proceeded with "Operation Mindfuck," sowing mischief where certainty -- particularly of the political variety -- abounded. Through the '90s and into the Aughts I thought I admired this, also (albeit with reservations). But as events in the past year have made quite plain to even his acolytes, people with motives more malign and pointed have adopted those very same strategies to wide success and devastating results. RAW's bunch are now scrambling to launch "Operation Mindfix" -- which . . . well, good luck to us all.
More anon, hopefully. If curious, here are some further RAW links:
- RAW's own site, faithfully maintained.
- Boing-Boing, the descendants of Mondo 2000, lurvs them some RAW.
- RAW's Cosmic Trigger has been . . . adapted? . . . into a play. Five hours' exposure to anything is liable to trigger something in the beholder, I should think.
- RAW's wiki is, of course, yooj.
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