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File <20><><EFBFBD> <20> <20><> <20><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> Written August 24th, 1992
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#025 <20> <20>ig <20>ong <20><><EFBFBD> <20>nd <20> <20>airy
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Presents
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"A Social Violence Manifesto"
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<20> by <20>
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Constantine
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For all you "hard-core anarchists" out there, here's a little pop
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quiz. #3 pencils only. No cheating, now.
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I said NO CHEATING! That means YOU, the little bastard in the
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coke-bottle glasses who took a few minutes off from drooling over "Leather
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Goddesses of Phobos IX" to read this tfile! We've got your number, pal!
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Now that that's been taken care of, let us proceed.
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Q: What action from the following list will go further in provoking
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a state of anarchy?
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A: Blowing up a mailbox with a homemade pipe bomb.
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B: Standing in the middle of a shopping mall and singing
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" backwards.
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C: Sitting at home and playing "Commander Been Versus the
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Dildo Monster" for the fortieth time.
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Anyone who answered "A" can stop reading now. And while you're
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at it, why not burn all your copies of the Anarchist Cookbook, all your
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generic tfiles (not the BLaH ones!), and your Loompanics catalog. Then
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go get a nice haircut and join the Young Republicans before you get hurt.
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Anyone who would have answered "C" probably hasn't even read this
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far, having since gone back to trying to run "Wolfenstein 3-D" on a CGA
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monitor.
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If you answered "B" (and there wasn't much choice after the "A" and
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"C" crowd left), this tfile is for you.
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ANARCHIST PHILOSOPHY
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Anarchy, as a philosophy, means many things to many people. For
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some, it is the path to tearing down the old order and erecting a new one.
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Others simply delight in pure chaos. Many people just feel that the world
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or nation we have now is unlivable, and that anarchy is the purest path
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to change. For all its faces, there are a few things that anarchy is NOT.
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Anarchy is NOT an excuse for mindless destruction, nor is it an
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excuse to shut yourself off from the world ("I don't care about politics,
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dude, I'm an ANARCHIST!"). Blowing up a mailbox does nothing to contribute
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to the movement-- it just damages property that YOUR taxes pay to replace,
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and hurts a lot of people who should have the right to send their mail
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without worrying about mad-bomber-geeks.
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To distance myself and like-minded people from this rather less-
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than-illustrious crowd, I humbly suggest a new name for an old philosophy:
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Social Violence.
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SOCIAL VIOLENCE PRIMER
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Our world, or at least our nation, is stupid. It may have always
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been stupid, it may have been a gradual process, it may have been the Cosby
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Show or McDonald's hamburgers or the Illuminati for that matter, but the
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basic fact is beyond denial: we exist in a society which prizes ignorance
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and intolerance.
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The majority of people don't LIKE to think. They don't know how
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to do it anymore. A publishers' survey revealed that less than 2% of our
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nation's population regularly visits a bookstore. Some of the fastest-
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growing religions, and the ones with the most political power, are the
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Fundementalist sects which decry logic and independant thought as tools
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of their "satan" while commanding obedience to a self-contradictory Bible.
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Dan Quayle, surely a monarch among morons, recently made a speech denouncing
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the "cultural elite" (read: smart people), while prizing "good old-fashioned
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values" (read: Christian fundementalism and the degredation of Women).
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The process begins at an early age, in our very schools. Children
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with sports skills are popular, while those with a scholarly bent are
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regarded as "nerds" and outcast. This indoctrination continues through
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high school, by which time most Americans are happy, complacent idiots who
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would rather pop a brewski and watch Monday Night Football instead of
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opening a book and (Gods forbid) learning something about the world they
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live in.
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Social Violence is a response to this threat. Its motto: if the
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people won't think on their own, we must FORCE them to think!
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Don't let the name mislead you; the "Violence" part of the name
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is not necessarily PHYSICALLY violent-- in fact, physical violence (boom)
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is usually counterproductive. The violence in question is directed against
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the very fabric of the offending society, with the goal of "killing"
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society itself.
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This can be accomplished through the disruption of daily routine,
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shaking people out of their personal stupors. Picture your average shopping
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mall on a Saturday afternoon, packed with shuffling zombies on their way
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from one overpriced boutique to the next. Suddenly, in the main concourse,
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horns blare, bells ring, and a gigantic sign reading "THINK!" unfurls from
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the ceiling.
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No, it's not going to cause a revolution, but everyone present
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at the time has been shaken up a bit. Their expectations of a regular
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day have been shattered, and they will go home to their families with
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the story of the strange, funny thing that happened to them that day.
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And, with luck, they might just start thinking about what the sign said.
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If it sounds like I'm advocating public practical jokes as a
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pathway to social change, give yourself two points for listening. That's
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EXACTLY what I'm advocating. You don't need bombs, chemicals or guns to
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spread anarchy and fight the system; all you need are the things that
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already set you apart from the rest-- smarts and creativity. Even without
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special equipment (as in the prior example), you can practice social
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violence. Take a tip from our pal George Carlin-- rush into a retail
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store, looking panicky and out of breath, run up to the clerk and scream,
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"IS THIS [day of the week]?" When she says yes, shout "THANK YOU!" and
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leave. That's all there is to it.
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Of course, if you decide this isn't for you, then that's your
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right. In a perfect society, everyone should be able to do what they
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wish without interfering with anyone else. But until this IS a perfect
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society, there will always be a need for Social Violence.
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By the way-- episodes 1 through 6 of "Commander Been Versus the
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Dildo Monster" are now available from Weenie Software, $45 for 1-3, $40
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for 4-6 (1-3 required), $100 for all six.
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SPECIAL SEGMENT by Guido Sanchez
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here, for the pleasure of all, are the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner
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backwards. Remeber, originality doesn't count unless you make people think.
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Banner Spangled-Star The
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Bra-ave home the and free, the of land the o'er
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Wave yet banner spangled, star that does say oh there still
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Was flag our that night the, through proof gave air in bursting
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Bombs the glare red rock-ets, the and streaming gallantly
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So were watched we ram-parts, the o'er fight perilous,
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The through stars bright and, stripes broad whose gle-a-ming
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Last twilight's the at "hailed we proudly so what?" <<3C><><EFBFBD>ooh!
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Light early dawn's the by, "see? you can sa-ay oh!" <<3C><><EFBFBD>double ooh!<21><>
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Ball Play!
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Ok, you can either sing the same tune, these lyrics.. or make the words
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themselves backwards and pronounce them phonetically.. do whatever turns
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you and others on.
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Gweed
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{---End of File... Safe-T-Phallus v0.91<EFBFBD> says "8345 Bytes Total"--------}
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Look for the BLaH poetry file.... soon, I tell you!
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BLaH <sigh>ts..
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Nun-Beaters Anonymous <708>251-5094
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Carbon Nation <708>965-8965
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The Insane Asylum <305>927-3028
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The Realm of Death <419>475-3089
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and..
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The Freematrix <708>527-9430 <-- [NuKE] Site! oh boy!
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Greetings to Chuck!
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{---Ghostie Toastie Puddin N Pie... Pissed the geeks off, made them cry----}
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