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#13 - 1986
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"Freud had insisted that all civilization was built on repression, but
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American society in the fortys and fifties was far more repressive than
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the common good required. Freud had made a similar point about the late
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Victorians, but, as Herbert Marcuse was fond of pointing out, advanced
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industrial society had perfected methods of manipulation and control --
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what Marcuse called 'surplus-repression'-- undreamt of by our straitlaced
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grandfathers. Marcuse's favorite example was the mass media, especially
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the electronic media, which had been honed by the Nazis into a unique
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instrument of propaganda and totalitarian domination, and which
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(according to Marcuse) served as a subtle weapon of conformity even in the
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democratic countries, making a hollow shell of our formal liberties and
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representative institutions." (from THE GATES OF EDEN by Morris
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Dickstein, pp. 67-8)
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ADVENTURES OF AN ANARCHO*SURREAL VANDAL: Every surrealist work is
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a Rorschach. The creative projection with which an ambiguous work of art
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is perceived is material with which you could survey and probe the popular
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psyche -- if you want to find out what others are thinking. If you don't
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care what others think and do not think, then you are probably nearing
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enlightenment and may wish to perform miracles instead of art -- making
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sure not to compromise your vandalistic standing. Let's take the example
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of a SubGenius miracle that illustrates a rule beginners should keep in
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mind, to wit: a half-assed miracle is better than no miracle at all.
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I learned this as a rainmaker in 1978 in California, when four years of
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drought ended in a flash flood that sewpt corpses out of the Tujunga
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hillside cemetery. Now this was not exactly a resurrection of the dead. We
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got them out of their graves, all right. But we didn't know how to bring
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them back to life. So we settled for a few grizzly, rotting corpses in
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people's yards and in the streets. To anyone raised in the millenial and
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messianic expectation of Judeo-Christianity this stunt must have looked
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pretty cheap.
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Maybe they even thought it was in poor taste, for that was the opinion
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expressed by Krupp Komics.
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It is like Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst said, though: "Everywhere you got
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people who gripe. I say to hell with them."
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Subgenius miracles are like olives. You have to develop a taste for them.
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Rev. J. Sump,
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Minister of the
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Miraculous
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KULTCHA Revolutionary Surrealist Vandal Party
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(R.S.V.P.) "A mighty farce for revolution."
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THE ABOVE RAIN seemed then to prove techniques in L.T. Culling's SEX
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MAGICK. That you could believe. I'm told it was in fact a Jesuit trick*
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imitating a CIA-KGB weather control conspiracy. That you won't believe.
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Blindness is slavery. PIX AT LEFT: Sabatabby, graffiti mascot of Industrial
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Workers of the World vandals.
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R. S. V. P.
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*Or, if not Jesuit, somebody else -- a conspiracy, though.
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