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<br><br><li> And once you have a Dream, once you fall in Love, there's really nothing you can do about it.  The Truth is compulsive, or at least it forces us to be compulsive about it. 

<br><br><li> While you wait for Truth to impact you, however, it's sort of a good idea to figure out how to get paid.  If you're going to be waiting around for inspiration to strike you, don't dilly-dally about - figure out a way to collect the unive...

<br><br><li> Don't die.  That is, please don't ruin your potential in ways that you can avoid.  As I type this, the man across from me just gobbled down two huge personal pizzas from pizza hut.  He looks like an intelligent fellow, but if that's his ...

<br><br><li> I should talk.  I die every day.  I am pretty "God" damned unhappy with the course my life has been taking, and I can really only blame it on the effect the Truth has had on me.  I know that I feel what I feel for a purpose - namely, the...

<br><br><li> Why does living on the edge in some way make us feel like we're pursuing the truth?  Could there be some interrelationship between Truth and Death that I'm not superclear on?  

<br><br><li> There is, there must be.  There is a definite correlation between Truth and Orgasm, and there are abundant references to Orgasm as being like a little Death.  

<br><br><li> There are obviously positive aspects of Death.  Death means the surrender of our bodies, of our "containers" as the idiot comet cult put it.  Ideas, also, enable us to forget our bodies.  And in a strange way, so does Orgasm - even thoug...

<br><br><li> Sex and Death are related, also, because they're the two forces that are universally viewed as "obscene" by squares.  

<br><br><li> Perhaps one tactic of the Conspiracy is to make us feel INURED to these most private of experiences.  Movies, pornography etc. make us feel like Death and Sex are no big deal - they are constantly being used to get a rise out of us, but ...

<br><br><li> Unfortunately, the psychic fallout of this media fuck-upedness is that we become USED to these shocking events.  

<br><br><li> It sounds like I am advocating social conservatism.  I am not.  I just think that we, as thinking people, should transcend the Conspiracy's media bullshit.  We need to counterconspire to make Sex and Death DANGEROUS again, to make them e...

<br><br><li>I would like us to concentrate on creating things that would STILL be good, even IF they were sold out.  That's why I think I like my "Fuck Work" sticker best of all.  I always explain that even if fucking TIME-WARNER decided to steal the...

<br><br><li> People with Soul recognize each other.  There's like a glimmer in the eye, or a catch in the voice, that indicates that "this person HAS potential.  this person is NOT to be ignored."

<br><br><li> Once in a while we may try to disguise this, but we do so to our own peril, and eventually we are found out.  Best to leave our potential dangling out, enormous psychic appendages that let others know that YOU EXIST!!!

<br><br><li> If it weren't for this immediate recognition thing, I would never have stumbled upon truth. 

<br><br><li> Truth is like a drug, and also, it is the antidote to any drug.  Well, perhaps not the PHYSICALLY addictive type, but as I write I am drunk off my ASS on British beer in a strange bed, and I really fucking ought to be sleeping it off ey?...

<br><br><li> Uh, maybe that ain't so, 'coz i'm about to crash again.  Good night to yuz.

<br><br><li> I wrote this book because I might die tomorrow, and because i can't sleep today.

<br><br><li> The Beastie Boys have done cultural manipulation with great skill.  Their first hit, "You've Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party", was a brilliant thing because - think about it, this is remarkable for 1986 - it's not about "love" or abo...

<br><br><li> Yes, the Beastie Boys are defintely down as all git-out.  "Do you think that you can front when Revelation comes?"  They have this knack for constructing songs that have subversive intent that fucking SELL.  Remember, you can be the most...

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<br><br><li> I make no advocacy and take no responsibiity for the tactics and methods presented herein.  All of this information has been presented to me in ways that would take me yet ANOTHER ill-structured book to explain, and we CERTAINLY don't ne...

<br><br><li> There is Anarchism, and then there is Not Giving A Rat's Ass What Becomes Of One.  I may feint towards the former, but it's obvious that the latter is a more powerful philosophy with more universal appeal.

<br><br><li> Waking up suddenly in the middle of a DEEP sleep in order to travel half rules and half sucks.  I certainly am "In The Land" right now, as surely as I have been on any drug.

<br><br><li> A business can be an art form.  Organizations can certainly be lasting testaments to one's existence, just as surely as oil and canvas can be.  Plus, they actually pay the bills once in a while.

<br><br><li> Art is certainly usually a business form.  Even so-called non-professional art is actually a fantastic business decision on the part of the artist, because non-pro art is generally of higher quality (cf. indie rock).  Unless you go looki...

<br><br><li> Even kitsch has value on a business level.

<br><br><li> On this train to Edinburgh my thoughts are really airborne.  I am at peace, and it is a consequence of this peace that leads me to believe that something interesting will come out of this writing.  Truth finds fertile ground in dynamism,...

<br><br><li> I am worried that this is a bit too philosophical for you.  That is, I can't afford to lose you here, because this book is only effective inasmuch as the communication is two-way.  Should I not say things such as "inasmuch"?  

<br><br><li> As much as I think I know why I'm in Europe, heading towards Scotland of all places, I don't have a clue.  I am really without function here.  I came to Europe to sell stickers, and I don't know how likely that is in hindsight.  This boo...

<br><br><li>A lot of my life is defined by this constant need to be INTERESTING.  I often say that I'd rather be in pain than be bored. 

<br><br><li> If you've ever been on an adventure with a group of worthashit people, on a journey or something, you get fascinated with people's r(tm)les and how they dovetail.  It's astonishing how many skills and abilities and perspectives that huma...

<br><br><li> This is one reason to hate most media.  The point of media originally was to communicate, right?  To let each other know of our existence, and the existence of the products we've created for each other.  Unfortunately, it seems to have b...

<br><br><li> In this world, it is getting harder and harder to concentrate.  

<br><br><li> I am lonely and I miss my love.  I have not met my love yet, but there is a hole in my life where I pray she will someday live.  I think I would be a good love for her, and I feel incomplete without her.  She is my darling and  my deligh...

<br><br><li> I am in fear that once I meet her, I won't be up to her standards.  This is probably to be the case, because I'm not really up to anyone's standards at all.  I think maybe that's all in my head, but it's leading me to question my own div...

<br><br><li> Never question your own divinity - that way lies madness.  You're destined to play an important part in the unfolding of events up to and through the millenium - you have been CHOSEN, you are ONE OF US.  If you are isolated, please get i...

<br><br><li> The problem with this world of facts is the way it breeds isolation.  Isolation is the ultimate enemy of the soul, and yet, it's the ultimate prod for us to resume and multiply our actions.  Unfortunately, it is not named as such, and we...

<br><br><li> Being alone is not the same as being lonely.  You can be alone and be happy - shit, that's pretty much what I am right now.  (Although I'm not sure if the state I'm in qualifies as "happy" - more like "beatific".  I am blessed, swept up ...

<br><br><li> Aloneness is healthy in measured doses, but loneliness is that which can cause suicide if let to run unchecked.  A lonely person does not truly believe that there's anyone out there who is worth being with, worth living for, at all.  Or ...

<br><br><li>It could be the fundamental WILL TO LONELINESS of Amerikan society that has urged me into beginning Unamerican Activities.  

<br><br><li> We all serve a purpose here, all of us with potential.  The meaning of life is to KEEP SEARCHING, to stay dynamic and to pray for a better way to exploit our potentials, right?  Joy.  Wonder.  Dreams, and their fulfillment.  These are th...

<br><br><li> "God" grant me the energy to FUCK SHIT UP, you know?  And to visibly add energy to any stagnant situation.  I want to be known as a battery, as a flame that lights a million wicks.  I'm doing a poor job of it up thill now, but I'm trying...

<br><br><li> I am running out of things to say right now. 

<br><br><li> It is important to see yourself from outside yourself.  Without being self-conscious, take a look at how you must appear to others.  Much of what we need as people of SOUL is to be recognized as such by other people of SOUL.  Without tha...

<br><br><li> "God" is a collective that is composed of the potential that resides within all of us.  "God" needs to recognize us as well - which is the same as saying that other people of SOUL need to recognize us.

<br><br><li> On our own, we can get a lot done, but we rarely take the time to acknowledge those others who keep us engaged enough to stay alive.  I am writing this book for all of us, and I am writing it for myself, but I have a few people specifica...

<br><br><li> It is a good thing to strive to impress people with your work.  Failure to do so leads to an ignorance of what it is to communicate.

<br><br><li> Each person of SOUL is like a brain cell in the Mind of God.  It is through Art, that is to say, through our conscious and voluntary product, that these cells are able to work together as one.  It is only through working together as one ...

<br><br><li> What will the next stage look like?  Well, if you have the right set of eyes in place, we're ALREADY THERE.  When you see the world through a filter that excludes that which is BORING, well, there is truly so much to see!  

<br><br><li> The problem is that we are constantly distracted from this beauty and purity by the BULLSHIT that has come along with an accelerated culture.  I am no luddite, but it is obvious to me that with every advance that the Interesting have mad...

<br><br><li> Noise follows Signal.  It is inevitable that any new media's finest days are its first ones.  But I'm defining "new media" in very, very vague terms - in other words, though film has been around forever, "Slacker" was the first film with...

<br><br><li>I know that what I'm doing might be stupid, and I know this book may be seen as valueless by many of you, but the point is that I don't think anyone has done anything quite like it before.  I have my influences, books that just talk about...

<br><br><li> Did I mention that through Art you can escape Death?  A good enough work of Art is not of its time, it is of the Ages.  Especially in these days of recordable media, you can send bits of yourself through to forever, in much the same way ...

<br><br><li>One can also escape Death through Love.  In fact, that's the most common way to pull it off, and since Love seems to be such a remote prospect for me, that is why I have only Art to turn to.  But the Love gambit is indeed a beautiful one,...

<br><br><li>I need to reinvent myself.  I need to ditch some of the trappings that make me Srini right now, and take on a new set of adjectives.  Perhaps a new set of clothes, or cologne even.  Maybe I need to start wearing ties or something.  I need...

<br><br><li> I look at myself through God's eyes - that is, YOURS - and I'm simply not impressed.  I look like a twit who sells stickers, and that is NOT the first impression I want to make.  

<br><br><li> How does one look DEEP and FUNNY?  Or maybe I should ditch the Deep part and go for merely Funny?  

<br><br><li> It's the same principle that guides my business, or at least, that SHOULD guide my business except I keep fucking up.  It's important to love what you've created, but it is NO FUN unless it SELLS!  If you create something that nobody wan...

<br><br><li> I must admit that I am setting myself up for the brink of doom with this book, because it may end up a long, serpentine thing that nobody's going to give a rat's ass about.  Shopping this around is going to be a nightmare, but since I'm ...

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<br><br><li> Anarchy has nothing to do with blowing things up.  Fuck, that's FASCISM,the opposite of anarchism.  Anarchy is about FREEDOM, and how free canwe be in a society that has explosions all the time?  I'm always intrigued by stories of assass...

<br><br><li> but back to the point, positive ideas, yes.  but how do we get people thinking "rationally"?  open them up to "new" ideas? 

<br><br><li>  You know, let me put it this way - TERRORISM IS CLICHE.  It still shocks people, but it doesn't really make people rethink things in any way - if anything, it makes them MORE fearful of new ideas, not less.

<br><br><li>  As you've probably recognized, unamerican is about creating MINDBOMBS.  The idea is that you can communicate IDEAS that are more explosive than any bomb, and the fact that people get to LIKE these ideas (even to the extent of PAYING FOR...

<br><br><li>  I just think the idea of millions of americans scratching their heads and going "fuck work?  hmmmm..." is a pretty cool idea, so that's what I'm pursuing. 

<br><br><li>  The antidote to bad ideas isn't censorship or violence.  It's MORE ideas, better ideas, communicated effectively.  YEAH!  :)

<br><br><li> close your eyes and look out with your mind across america.  chances are you'll see a mix of good and bad, a mix of bored and interested people.  You'll see kids in overcrowded classrooms, sure, and pollution and greed and all that... bu...
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<br><br><li> As much as a name like "unamerican activities" sounds like it represents some bunch of whiners who only see the shitty side of life in the USA, that ain't the case.  Unamerican Activities is about recognizing traditional boundaries on ou...

<br><br><li> We feel that communication - ESPECIALLY communication about PROBLEMS - is the ONLY way for this society to progress.  Unamerican is about giving you tools with which to tell your world how you feel.  Unamerican is about power - YOUR powe...

<br><br><li> A great band makes you sway in time to the music, or jump up and down or sing along to the choruses.  But above all, a great band can boil your mind over with possibilities.  A great band makes you want to start your OWN damn band.  I am...

<br><br><li> We sell things.  We sell things because we are professional revolutionaries.  In order to be a "professional" anything, you must figure out how to get paid.  We feel that by taking our unconventional message to the people, in the form of...

<br><br><li>  Almost ALL long-term human action is indicative of one's "faith".  I think faith is good - it's important to have faith in your work, or faith in your friends or family or whatever.  Once, I might have even wanted to have faith in my co...

<br><br><li>  In the world of 2100, there WON'T be room for nationalism.  There just WON'T.  Our world will be so crowded, so generally fucked up, that ANY sort of nationalism beyond a certain ethnic pride will be seen as greedy and fascist. Unameric...

<br><br><li>  The thing is that I also have things that I consider holy.  My opinjion is that humans have, like, this "holiness gland" that secretes this need to hold things as immortal and beautiful, and we can't help it.  But there is a REASON this...

<br><br><li>  I am holy about ideas.  I am NUTS about people who have ideas.  I only feel good when I'm talking ideas, when I'm creating ideas, when I encounter ideas.  A great post, for instance, can light up my day, flip my switch from "man, i'm un...

<br><br><li>  A good idea never dies.  Shit, all ideas have a kernel of oldness to them - for instance, Unamerican's ideas can be prefigured in the works of that one greek philosopher guy who just bitterly mocked everything in greek society (i think ...

<br><br><li>  But great art also ought to attack LESSER forms of holiness, such as those that praxis outlines in his sermon.  Attacking idiocy is a priority for unamerican, as a lot of you have been able to decipher.

<br><br><li>  So stop having blind faith in your job, in your education, in the flag, in advertisements, in anything but your own ability to live by your ideas and your ability to meet others with ideas.

<br><br><li> Redistributing wealth is simply not my job.  I am absolutely down with redistributing wealth, but

I'm also unable to visualize a way to do it.  I have the feeling, however, if Unamerican attracts a good number of bright people, that one of these bright people will have a great idea for doing so, and then I'd support that.  In other words, I'm sim...

<br><br><li> I do believe in SEPARATISM.  By that I mean that people like us - people of real ideas, that is - should BOYCOTT all spiritually deadening industries and products to the best of our ability, and should begin new alternatives to "normal" ...

<br><br><li> So with that goal in mind, unamerican is trying to be a t-shirt company with a real message to disseminate.  As you've probably gathered, it's about a LOT more than sloganeering - it's about retaking life itself from the morons who have ...

<br><br><li>I'm sure you know this, but "anarchy" is NOT NOT NOT simply "no more laws, no more government".  An anarchist community could well decide that it was in their best interests to create a body of law. Anyone who tells you different has no i...

<br><br><li> Anarchism is simply a perspective which says that society exists to enhance individual choices, insofar as those choices do not limit those of others.  Anarchists hate coercion and the support freedom of individual expression.  Hope that...

<br><br><li> I just want to let you know that although there are levels on which we totally disagree, I respect your (personal!) intelligence and general guts-level.  I'm not even white, but I can sense that what you believe is the truth as you see i...

<br><br><li> As a smart organization, however, you must understand that your message gets drowned out by the actions and occasional pure idiocy of some members of your audience.  I'm not saying that you should flinch from what you perceive as your mi...

<br><br><li> I'm proposing that you be a bit savvy with your views.  There's truth to them, somewhere in there, and I don't *ever* flinch from the truth either, even if I'm told by the media that the speaker of that truth would like to see me exiled ...

<br><br><li> You see, I could personally *give* a fuck about that color; I care about *ideas*.  I'm hoping that your priorities bear *some* resemblance to mine - I'm certain that you, like me, have contempt of people without ideas.  In fact, it is sa...

<br><br><li> That, my friend, is history, the way it works.  We, the interesting, are gifted with ideas which basically FORCE us to create things.  Then, as we step back to admire our work and take a well-deserved rest, shocked at the money rolling r...

<br><br><li> Anyway, Western Civilization (let's call it "white" civilization, as a nod to your views) has brought about an interesting, dynamic world into existence, a world of communication and shared struggle.  Liberals (not a bad word) do tend to...

<br><br><li> Furthermore, if the breeding of non-white people around the world at a faster rate is an issue for you, why not get involved in shipping birth control around the world?  Shit, that is something even a liberal could get excited about; the...

<br><br><li> Race-mixing is a tough one for us to see eye-to-eye on; i'll acknowledge that.  You do have allies in the strangest places (take my mom, for instance - if I don't marry into my race, she'd freak out); anti-race-mixing is certainly not an...

<br><br><li> Anyway, I've gone on too long.  I'd be interested in hearing your perspective, and, um, please don't beat me up.  :)  
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<br><br><li> actually, this could be a lot of fun, because you're someone I believe will disagree intelligently with certain ideas I have.   Maybe even teach me something.  which is *much* more gratifying personally than another teenage "right-on", e...

<br><br><li> Ultimately, I believe that there exist universal truths.  This is a postulate for me because it encourages me to find good disagreeing debate-type partners.  What is needed is two or more people who can acknowledge each other's valid poi...

<br><br><li> I'll tell you my standard rant about conservatism etc.  I believe that conservatism is a valid perspective that has a whole lot of bum marketing.  I've found that I agree with a lot of points that are brought about by libertarian conserv...

<br><br><li> Unfortunately, republicans have got so many overtones of hate and intolerance that people are just so turned off.

<br><br><li> Also, think about it - do you eat at Taco Bell?  shop at A&P or Barnes & Noble or Walmart?  listen to corporate radio?  you're implicit in the creation of the shitty jobs just by your (probable) consumption patterns. That's fine as far a...

<br><br><li>  A conservative perspective, fiscally, is one that favors a small, non-intrusive public sector.  Sound idea, to some degree.

<br><br><li> i attended stanford university, where republican basically meant "unrepentant rich fuck" and democrat/liberal meant "whiny, spineless rich fuck".  As the son of gas-station-attendants-turned-owners, who has hard-won scholarships to thank...

<br><br><li> Hence, I'm no fan of the kowtowing republicans do to those who already have money.  I view their championing of small business to be rhetoric, especially when I see things like their opposition to mobile healthcare and their encouragemen...

<br><br><li> I don't like "industry".  Industry is BORING.  I choose to avoid a lot of things provided by it, because, generally, they're bad for me.  I'm not going to let that belief stop me from having a good time (you betcha I drink) but the truth...

<br><br><li> As if deregulating tobacco will "create jobs" that deserve to be created.  This society *needs* people who dedicate their lives to preserving cool scenery and alternative fuels, who fucking scrub Valdez-coated ducks, teach welfare moms h...

<br><br><li> And it's oh-so-groovy that the NUMBER ONE TARGET OF SUBSIDY IN THIS COUNTRY is to friggin' FARMERS, not to 'inner city welfare moms'.  The heartland is a WELFARE STATE.  They're SAFE, though, because they vote Republican.  Also, don't fo...

<br><br><li> I *love* the free market (obviously; it's what I'm doing), but I pretty much hate "capitalism".  I don't believe dollars should make the decisions; I believe GOOD IDEAS should make the decisions.  This country and its economy are JUST FR...

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	<br><br><li> hoard the dollars

	<br><br><li> invest conservatively or illegally

	<br><br><li> build a monopoly

	<br><br><li> buy expensive foreign goods</ul>

none of which are very good things (other than perhaps b) for America.  I *know* rich people, I went to school with them, they are nobody in whom I have much faith - in fact, they rank among the most boring people I have ever met.  (Not *all* of them...

<br><br><li> As you seem to have instinctually known, I LOATHE so-called "social conservatives".  You sound like you're more on the libertarian tip - your pro-gun values sound like you're for personal freedoms more than "Christian values".  As if the...

<br><br><li> Because there are certain values we obviously do have in common, other than just a questioning, skeptical attitude and a willingness to communicate.  One of the most important values is a disgust with the lumpen idiocy of most americans ...

<br><br><li> A lot of people are treading water in today's workplace.  On some levels, we've got more freedoms than we know what do with; but strip away the democratic rhetoric, and most of us live lives of solitary desperation, from paycheck to payc...

<br><br><li> If you want to read how bad things are, this isn't the book for you. 

<br><br><li> However, I've got a couple of good ideas on what to do about it. 

<br><br><li> First and foremost, we must somehow rescue the word "revolution" from the scrap heap of history.  

<br><br><li> how do we know the "revolution" when we see it?  to what extent do we need to agitate and organize for sweeping, societal change, and to what extent should we simply enable individual acts of rebellion? 

<br><br><li> one more time, folks - what Unamerican is fighting is NOT the GOVERNMENT.  Listen: i've got a strong, strong bias against republicans, okay?  but if you're going to go all "fuck the government" and say that that's all the revolution is, ...