From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 17:24:57 MST
you think i'd get the word extropian right!
oh my GOD.aaaaaaaarrrrrggggggggg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Colin Hales
> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 9:59 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: Poetry (was Hakim Bey )
>
>
> while making up kids lunches this morning, this happened to me:
>
> Bespoke Pomo bard hack'em,
> In affront of extropian eschaton
> Found he could parse
> The wind up his arse
> Into technébabble, mot-scrabble and lig patin.
>
> When I find out who it was that did it I'll let you know.
>
> cheers
> Colin
> * I'm done :) *
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> > [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Alex Ramonsky
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 10:54 PM
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: Re: Poetry (was Hakim Bey )
> >
> >
> > I wonder if anyone else has experienced this...? -There is a type of
> > language used in certain kinds of poetry, song lyrics, and
> > prose...I don't
> > know whether to call it 'abstract' or what because I know
> > very little about
> > literature terms, but an example would be the lyrics of Jon
> > Anderson, eg
> > 'A man concieved a moment's answers to the dream, playing
> the powers
> > vaguely sensing all the themes'
> > 'Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid, emotion
> > revealed as the
> > ocean maid'.
> >
> > My question is...Why do lyrics and poetry like this
> frighten and upset
> > people? Because they do...
> > There are three different types of reaction to stuff like
> > this. Some people
> > say, 'doesn't make any sense to me'. Other say 'Oh yeh I get
> > it it's kind of
> > abstract; poetic'. But the third lot say 'BS! Wank! Rubbish!'
> > and over-react
> > completely, trying really hard to discredit the author,
> > almost frantic to
> > prove it 'doesn't mean anything, it's rubbish'.
> > I have noticed such a strong reaction of this kind for so
> > many years, Ithis
> > response of 'Huh! Mystical crap!'
> > Can anyone explain why this sort of usage of language provokes this
> > reaction? Are people actually frightened of it because they
> > don't understand
> > it?
> > ...Could we use poetry as a bioweapon? (Scene jumps to troops in
> > battlefield, reading aloud from James Joyce, enemy troops
> > screaming and
> > covering their ears) ...No? Just wondered...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Steven Hack" <richardhack@pcmagic.net>
> > To: <extropians@extropy.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 01:25
> > Subject: RE: Hakim Bey (was: RE: virtual nation building)
> >
> >
> > > At 10:17 AM 2/27/02 +1100, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >Isn't it obvious that technology has moral implications
> > oozing everywhere
> > >
> > >
> > > Technology has moral implications if you are a moralist.
> > If you aren't,
> > it
> > > doesn't.
> > >
> > > >Maybe it is a kind of poetry.
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > >
> > > >Colin
> > >
> > > Richard Steven Hack
> > > richardhack@pcmagic.net
> > >
> >
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