February 2009
1 post
Find an approach that people have no historical... →
The above link is an interesting and potentially useful story.
One thing about social engineering (about most any human-behavior-related topic, really) is that, though boiling things down into simple little memes seems useful, it rarely is. The lessons we learn from situations and actions are generally not as important as those situations and actions themselves (the medium is the message, get...
January 2009
6 posts
Presidential Invocation →
The previous post is one of the most powerful quotes I’ve ever heard, and one I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. A dangerously poignant example of that sort of cultural engineering is this. Live and breathe Obama, be Obama better than him. Give me the face, I’ll give you the words.
“It doesn’t take long to realize that he’s totally synced up with...
“You should always aim to be as skillful as the most professional of government...”
– Genesis P-Orridge | Heathen Earth
The 2008 Athens Uprisings from the Inside →
Answers to every “how” you can ask. This is fantastic juice, whatever your politics are.
“In consulting with Jeep, Rapaille discovered through his focus-grouping sessions...”
– Jason Louv on G. Clotaire Rapaille
“The chaos magical view of self is that it is based on the same random capricious...”
– Peter Carroll, Liber Kaos
Deleuze & Guattari's Most Diligent Students: the...
http://info.interactivist.net/node/5324