Yeah folks, you gotta give my/our homestate credit, any State that can elect an openly racist Senator i.e. "Senator No" Sen. Jesse Helms (a Republican)- AND - Old Puckerlips Hizzhonor Himself Gov. Jim Hunt (a Democrat) who presents a liberal's cloak to the public but has a Nazi heart has got to be one schizophrenic gestalt State...Jesus, and to think I helped get Helms elected back in 1972...at least I didn't work for any of Hunt's campaigns, thankfully...and at least Helms, for all his blatant Alzheimer's-inspired racism, homophobia and xenophobia doesn't hide any of his true colors, unlike Gov. Hunt who has always made this pretense of being a fiscal conservative-social liberal but by his actions in four terms in office that his spine is not unlike a sailing yacht's spinnaker sail, billowing and puffing out whichever way the political wind blows at the moment...
When my nearly-80-YO politically astute father told me a few years back that Waco was the culmination of a successful effort by the Government to silence all dissent which threatened the status quo by openly murdering those who speak their own truth I just poo-poohed his thoughts with a laugh, but when stuff like this shit with the new Nazi WAVE happens, I'm beginning to believe him.
When eminations that amount to fart noises coming from the cheeks of an ass of chicken via Old Puckerlip's totally scary pronouncements that not only is everyone who is not one of the perfect and "beautiful people" in high school in North Carolina fair game not just for ostracisim and pariah status but evidently also now a target for potentially illegal erzats law enforcement "shadowing" of otherwise lawful behavior, it makes me think that the old Soviet Empire didn't collapse after all, it simply changed it's name and moved to the Governor's Mansion in the Great State Of North Carolina.
~~~H. Kent Craig, Who At 15 Was The Gopher For Frank Rouse Who Was Then NC State GOP Chairman In The Summer Of 1972 But Also Tried To Help Elect A Superliberal Democratic Friend Who Ran For US Senate In 1978
It's impossible to discuss Reich in any abstract context that's framed in modern day perspectives.
Reich first and foremost was an authority-challenger, loving the kick the shins of those he thought were using the then-current political structure to maintain the then-status quo. It didn't matter to him if his theory of orgone energy challenged authority, or something else.
In many ways, he was a true cotemporary of other social revolutionists of his day, such as Havelock Ellis, Sartre, Margaet Sanger, etc. His standing was equal or nearly so up until the 50's, when the wave of social hysteria that was evidenced by McCartyism engulfed his work.
Just like research into anti-gravity devices or localized power sources based on a chemical lasing model or anything similar which would disrupt the current myths of thought, all it took for Reich to lose his credibility was the one loose or two misguided theory, like his theory that one has basically 3-4,000 potential orgasms in you as a biological entity and that's all. All it will take will be for someone to create a working anti-grav device, then proviso it that while it works we really should be cautious with its use because it might mutate plant growth in the rain forest, a theorem which will seem plausible but then be proven stupid a few years later and by then anti-grav stuff will have enough corporate hooks in them to where everyday use won't be cache', just like when the AMA used the climate of the time to destroy Reich.
An snippy but relevent insider truism among freelance writers is that it's an unfortunate fact that almost everyone who can read also feels that can write for publication, and hey folks, it just ain't so. There's a huge difference between writing something for internal personal or company reference and writing for entertainment and education purposes which is what so-called professional writing is all about. Writing for one pair or small group of known eyes is definitely different than writing for a large anonymous gestalt of gazing pupils. Things like technique and structure are more important, yes, but professional writing also must give service to the writer's ego and vision. The Web was supposed to have been the great democratizer of personal vision, a place where anyone could be a co-equal-status ePublisher with anyone else, but it hasn't worked out that way, and for good reason. It takes time and effort to sit down at a keyboard and crank out words let alone HTML or other code to frame the code for browsers, and many if not most people simply don't have the time to do so even if their ego and vision whispers in their ears they should do so. This is the problem that Fatbrain and other straight ePub'ers have now. Even if their business model allows for traceable usage through encrypted purchase paradigms, they still need warm bodies with rational minds to actually crank out the inventory or they won't have any product to sell, or at least any product that anyone wants to buy. Buying, especially buying non-3D-physical intellectual works whether said be a program code chunk or a poem is antithetical to the genuflective reaction of most techs and geeks, unless they themselves have a personal work stake via their own production of intellectual capital of some sort. The problem is for those of us who produce intellectual cashflow and capital is that we only have three billion or so heartbeats in this lifetime to produce allocatively those ephemeral whisps of mindfuck fancy, and to keep the heart pumping we need money to pay our bills. So how does one get paid for quality results of text effort? By giving it away on the Web for free? I don't think so. I saw Job Katz on CSPAN and couldn't help but notice how his entire demeanor changed when asked how he could make a living writing for the Web, considering how open and prone to piracy the Net is. It is tough, ain't it, Jon? Without legacy deadtree means of protecting your time-allocated-focus works, a typical book being what maybe 40,000 of your given three billion heartbeats, neither you or I could afford to feed the passions of respective ego and actually try to write for a partial living at least. Perhaps this publicity stunt of King's will speed up the development on easier means of distributing thoughtwhisp products electronically while still protecting the means of authors to pay their gas and light bills, I certainly hope so, Smile.......H. Kent Craig, "Contributing Editor For Project Management" for "Contractor" magazine, http://www.contractormag.com
Anyone remember the early days of the Web when everyone had to be recognizable and traceable to exactly who they were? Remember when the first anonymizer services came online, where one could enter as your given identity and leave and post as someone else? Remember how there was virtually zero sex on the Web until those first anonymizer servies freed up users? Does anyone want to go back to those bad old days, especially considering that it was sex stuff that helped drive early Net usage through different roofs? It's one thing for webfolk to have the OPTION of using digital authenticating certificates or Fortezza cards or whatever, it's another thing to try to turn the clock back and remove all privacy shields from normal usage...just ask the stupid Intel marketing and eng. dept.s about the "harmless" tracking features built in to the '3 chip if they now accept the fact that most people want to keep what little privacy is actually left in RL let alone on the Web...
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Yeah folks, you gotta give my/our homestate credit, any State that can elect an openly racist Senator i.e. "Senator No" Sen. Jesse Helms (a Republican)- AND - Old Puckerlips Hizzhonor Himself Gov. Jim Hunt (a Democrat) who presents a liberal's cloak to the public but has a Nazi heart has got to be one schizophrenic gestalt State...Jesus, and to think I helped get Helms elected back in 1972...at least I didn't work for any of Hunt's campaigns, thankfully...and at least Helms, for all his blatant Alzheimer's-inspired racism, homophobia and xenophobia doesn't hide any of his true colors, unlike Gov. Hunt who has always made this pretense of being a fiscal conservative-social liberal but by his actions in four terms in office that his spine is not unlike a sailing yacht's spinnaker sail, billowing and puffing out whichever way the political wind blows at the moment...
When my nearly-80-YO politically astute father told me a few years back that Waco was the culmination of a successful effort by the Government to silence all dissent which threatened the status quo by openly murdering those who speak their own truth I just poo-poohed his thoughts with a laugh, but when stuff like this shit with the new Nazi WAVE happens, I'm beginning to believe him.
When eminations that amount to fart noises coming from the cheeks of an ass of chicken via Old Puckerlip's totally scary pronouncements that not only is everyone who is not one of the perfect and "beautiful people" in high school in North Carolina fair game not just for ostracisim and pariah status but evidently also now a target for potentially illegal erzats law enforcement "shadowing" of otherwise lawful behavior, it makes me think that the old Soviet Empire didn't collapse after all, it simply changed it's name and moved to the Governor's Mansion in the Great State Of North Carolina.
~~~H. Kent Craig, Who At 15 Was The Gopher For Frank Rouse Who Was Then NC State GOP Chairman In The Summer Of 1972 But Also Tried To Help Elect A Superliberal Democratic Friend Who Ran For US Senate In 1978
Reich first and foremost was an authority-challenger, loving the kick the shins of those he thought were using the then-current political structure to maintain the then-status quo. It didn't matter to him if his theory of orgone energy challenged authority, or something else.
In many ways, he was a true cotemporary of other social revolutionists of his day, such as Havelock Ellis, Sartre, Margaet Sanger, etc. His standing was equal or nearly so up until the 50's, when the wave of social hysteria that was evidenced by McCartyism engulfed his work.
Just like research into anti-gravity devices or localized power sources based on a chemical lasing model or anything similar which would disrupt the current myths of thought, all it took for Reich to lose his credibility was the one loose or two misguided theory, like his theory that one has basically 3-4,000 potential orgasms in you as a biological entity and that's all. All it will take will be for someone to create a working anti-grav device, then proviso it that while it works we really should be cautious with its use because it might mutate plant growth in the rain forest, a theorem which will seem plausible but then be proven stupid a few years later and by then anti-grav stuff will have enough corporate hooks in them to where everyday use won't be cache', just like when the AMA used the climate of the time to destroy Reich.
An snippy but relevent insider truism among freelance writers is that it's an unfortunate fact that almost everyone who can read also feels that can write for publication, and hey folks, it just ain't so. There's a huge difference between writing something for internal personal or company reference and writing for entertainment and education purposes which is what so-called professional writing is all about. Writing for one pair or small group of known eyes is definitely different than writing for a large anonymous gestalt of gazing pupils. Things like technique and structure are more important, yes, but professional writing also must give service to the writer's ego and vision. The Web was supposed to have been the great democratizer of personal vision, a place where anyone could be a co-equal-status ePublisher with anyone else, but it hasn't worked out that way, and for good reason. It takes time and effort to sit down at a keyboard and crank out words let alone HTML or other code to frame the code for browsers, and many if not most people simply don't have the time to do so even if their ego and vision whispers in their ears they should do so. This is the problem that Fatbrain and other straight ePub'ers have now. Even if their business model allows for traceable usage through encrypted purchase paradigms, they still need warm bodies with rational minds to actually crank out the inventory or they won't have any product to sell, or at least any product that anyone wants to buy. Buying, especially buying non-3D-physical intellectual works whether said be a program code chunk or a poem is antithetical to the genuflective reaction of most techs and geeks, unless they themselves have a personal work stake via their own production of intellectual capital of some sort. The problem is for those of us who produce intellectual cashflow and capital is that we only have three billion or so heartbeats in this lifetime to produce allocatively those ephemeral whisps of mindfuck fancy, and to keep the heart pumping we need money to pay our bills. So how does one get paid for quality results of text effort? By giving it away on the Web for free? I don't think so. I saw Job Katz on CSPAN and couldn't help but notice how his entire demeanor changed when asked how he could make a living writing for the Web, considering how open and prone to piracy the Net is. It is tough, ain't it, Jon? Without legacy deadtree means of protecting your time-allocated-focus works, a typical book being what maybe 40,000 of your given three billion heartbeats, neither you or I could afford to feed the passions of respective ego and actually try to write for a partial living at least. Perhaps this publicity stunt of King's will speed up the development on easier means of distributing thoughtwhisp products electronically while still protecting the means of authors to pay their gas and light bills, I certainly hope so, Smile... ....H. Kent Craig, "Contributing Editor For Project Management" for "Contractor" magazine, http://www.contractormag.com
Anyone remember the early days of the Web when everyone had to be recognizable and traceable to exactly who they were? Remember when the first anonymizer services came online, where one could enter as your given identity and leave and post as someone else? Remember how there was virtually zero sex on the Web until those first anonymizer servies freed up users? Does anyone want to go back to those bad old days, especially considering that it was sex stuff that helped drive early Net usage through different roofs? It's one thing for webfolk to have the OPTION of using digital authenticating certificates or Fortezza cards or whatever, it's another thing to try to turn the clock back and remove all privacy shields from normal usage...just ask the stupid Intel marketing and eng. dept.s about the "harmless" tracking features built in to the '3 chip if they now accept the fact that most people want to keep what little privacy is actually left in RL let alone on the Web...