WASTE, net, Paranioa

[Granville Ganter]

On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, dennis rich wrote:
> dare i say it?
>  r u a little P-A-R-A-N-O-I-D?!?!??!!?!??!?!!!
>
>                                              just had to
> 
>                                                          d.

Just finished watching the news and the FBI is investigating some 
right wing subversive
group called the Patriot Companions, or something.  Their plan: to 
distribute a deadly disease to fight the government, a disease/toxin which 
they call 
"government flu."  (I think they stole the chemical/disease from the 
government). 
Sound like the Peter Pinguid society?  Anarchists organizing for 
anarchy?  A subversive group dedicated to fighting faceless bureaucracy 
whose own acronims are WASTE and DEATH?  These are all a bunch of people 
upset at how awful the systemized modern world has become, and in their 
very act of fighting it, reproduce it.   

I know Tristero is usually associated with "the initiation of a fertile 
diversity and the ultimate possibility of an anarchic plentitude of 
communication" but as far as I can see, it's usually associated with 
people who are buying into some sort of system at the expense of their as-
yet-not-quite-as-systematized bodies.  Tactically oppositional, 
strategically complicit.  The Net?  Probably the same.  (Although I don't 
find this list a WASTE at all). 

You know, I think I do sound a little paranoid.

gg.