“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.” - Robert Anton Wilson
And Kung gave the words "order"
and "brotherly deference"
And said nothing of the "life after death."
RAW NOTES: "Voltaire and Pound both turned on by this aspect of Kung fu Tse. Ez frequently quotes in his letters Voltaire's delight at Kung as 'the first man in history who DIDN'T have a Divine Revelation.'"
We continue to meet up here and there, and try different tools out, especially ones that could allow us to collaborate. Right now I (the bogus magus) have started playing with brains and plexs (dynamic mind maps), but haven't found a satisfactory way of publishing the dynamic brain just yet - or gotten into sharing. I offer a still image for the moment... You can find the dynamic version of this stored at WebBrain here, so you can play with pulling the web of connections around, changing the views, etc...to glimpse how it works. The basic form of Personal Brain comes free, so to find out if it seems like just an amusing toy to you, or a useful tool, why not try it out. I haven't come to any conclusion about it yet... I also stuck a small version of the brain onto the OM website, a site which hasn't evolved at all recently, as it started as an experiment with the website Google offers you with any account...
This blog has now run for a few years, and (in my eyes) has lots of interesting stuff for you to dig around in - not all of it out-of-date, or too limited to the interests of a small group.
I just clicked on Douglas Rushkoff's blog link (right hand of the screen) - and then spent the best part of an hour enjoying his company. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but he sure makes you think (if you enjoy thinking).
So I watched him addressing the Google crew (a tough audience in many ways) on the subject of "Don't give Up On the Humans" - after I clicked on the slightly more paranoid title of "Program or be Programmed". If you have 50 minutes to concentrate, you might enjoy this entertaining speaker...
Yeah, at 65, I come from the analogue age, which makes me a digital immigrant...
This blog has not updated for a while, but we all remain busy out here.
Although the MLA has taken a sabbatical for new courses, you can still find the forum open, and for those who have taken the recent classes run by illuminati alumni, the course material and forums still seem available.
Another space opened up recently, that some of us may migrate to (you never can tell) but more on the Hidden College of Eris later.
