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such a detente i m also very aware that saying the internet is a gross oversimplification of a whole bunch of different sometimes competing cultures a key issue would be finding some common ground among all users from attitudes to censorship to trolling to vandalism but having a set of ground rules all citizens can accord to is surely the first necessary step for a citizenship yes the single biggest issue with declaring the internet as a sovereign territory is that nation states have nothing to gain and much to lose from this but then again that doesn t make it unthinkable those nations once also had a lot to lose by making slavery illegal i can imagine quite similar arguments from them too we own that you can t take our property the quote from bruce sterling s political sf novel distraction comes from near the end of the book after a post financial crash us has to negotiate with a new power within it s borders nomadic tribes who conduct most of their social admin and political apparatus online think whuffie on steroids i can easily imagine circumstances where the us would have to come to an understanding with non state or rather post state actors another quote from distraction goes politics is the art of reconciling aspirations ok so let s assume through some miracle the powers that be allow internet to be recognised as a nationality there s a rotating crowd of randomly selected anons sitting at the un or something what does that actually do one advantage i can see is that all those blue laws which use the phrase based on the prevailing standards of the community go away my community is the internet our standard for sexual freedom is b obvious exception and perhaps a necessary precondition is zero tolerance of actual child pornography and images of actual rape i also imagine that property and privacy laws would develop rather differently the most important part for me is that those who wish not to play the same games as their home state have somewhere to call home it would also be somewhere for a rather virtual definition of somewhere of course where organisation to survive failed states and other antiquated tribes can be accomplished no doubt existing state actors would cause all kinds of problems for the internet citizen governments tend to do that but then again they do that between each other as the wikileaks cables clearly show and for the states which claim to be democracies it ll show one possible result of truly sharing power among the people nb this isn t a working proposal it s not even really a manifesto yet it s perhaps just a naive dream but it s one that obsesses me increasingly if anyone has useful ideas to contribute to this sing out 3 comments politics rant tagged assange freedom internet citizen law politics porn state wikileaks permalink posted by catvincent it gets better if you make it so 24 november 2010 two things a quick plug for my review of the grant morrison talking with gods film which is up at plutonica net but more importantly this of all the many videos that have come along as a result of the it gets better campaign many of which were moving and well intentioned this is the one that really hit home for me it s from the scottish sf writer hal duncan it s sweary as fuck and kind of vicious it s also one of the few which notes that to a suffering bullied teen a bunch of folk telling you it gets better might not actually be that helpful to hear hal s approach brings the passion of bitter experience to the question i think it s a rant every bullied kid every potential member of the tribe of the strange gay straight or whatever could stand to hear take it away hal thanks to jon courtenay grimwood for first sharing the link leave a comment tribe of the strange permalink posted by catvincent new mason lang fuckyeahconsciousness 15 november 2010 a couple of bits of news the first part of my long threatened look at movies memes and such went live at weaponizer last week the mason lang film club is going to start by looking at the your reality isn t real boom of 1998 9 which gave us films like dark city the truman show and the matrix join me also a new venue for me to rant about minds and consciousness and such a tumblr group blog set up by a few pals keen to save and expand on the increasingly complex twitter threads we ve been having so take a peek at fuckyeahconsciousness tumblr com if that strikes your fancy the next guttershaman is also on the cards plus whatever else crops up nice for things to be getting busy again also big thanks for the quiet but kind comments about my last post 5 comments uncategorized permalink posted by catvincent back in black and blue 6 november 2010 here s why there s been such a gap since last post why writing s taking ages generally and well a big part of why i m me really i get shy about remarkably few things i ll happily tell tales of wild sexual exploits and magical combat engagements as true as i can some of those stories get involved the thing i get most shy talking about is the state of my health and it s only after seeing the bravery and skill with which my beloveds kirsty hall and jolane abrams have come to deal with their own illnesses and especially kirsty brave heartfelt blogging on how her chronic fatigue syndrome s affected her life and art practice and jolane s ayahuasca trip reports hers always aimed at healing herself and others that i ve come to a point where i can accept my health issues and even talk about them hopefully not quite to the lengths many in middle age seem to want to i ve never been a fit lad at school i was the odd boy who doesn t like sport of the bonzo dog song half blind every summer with hay fever i sat on the sidelines read scripts for drama club with inevitable consequences re bullying after a childhood on the low badly fed end of poor working class brief jobs then dole not a lot of healthy choices i did study martial arts for a time in my 20s and ironically it was a much later dojo accident 6 years ago resulting in a bruised foot that turned to gangrene that led to the next discovery of my having type 2 diabetes after they scraped the pus and rotted flesh from my double sized black and green right foot twice delightfully the term for this op is debridement the resulting rather cunty shaped wound was left open to granulise repair from the inside out this resulted in near 3 month in bed with a fucking great crater in my foot that went down to the bone you want pictures perverts my right foot in 2004 about 2 weeks post ops they pulled 6 feet of bandage out the hole after first op like a magic trick so that was 6 years ago one thing they don t tell you about diabetes generally is that has so many knock on effects such as weakening immunoresponse so that the smallest cough virus man flu if you insist elevates to full flu and when like last year i got yer actual h1n1 swine flu that was me flat out for 3 months i got over that but the diabetes ain t going away any time soon i still get bugs real easy and now i m informed i have a bone spur in one heel also something diabetics are prone to fixing that short of an op had too many in past 6 years on foot tendon sheathes in hands and mutant wisdom teeth buried in my jaw ta recovery means reshaping my gait using shoe inserts designed to shift how my feet land knock on effect of that knees having to learn new ways to bend are beginning to weaken recently i got to the fuck this shit stage with it all my bad health gets in the way of so much wanting to write more share my ideas with fellow minds go places to do so or just to meet friends so i m working on this big time slow but strong grinding finally i feel freed from the odd geas i seemed to pick up young that self work using magic was somehow cheating so i m doing little healing workings to help me either fix what i can or strengthen what i can t fully fix since i throw a bunch of imagery part derived from wilhelm reich orgone visualisation stuff for one i m calling the work blue grinding i will to be well i will be well so that s why there s not been much going on here for months not just my health but that of so many people i love has been at risk for months some very seriously but thankfully not many fatally but the blue grinding is starting to take effect i m well enough to walk a bit more hoping to travel to london for a day soon and those flu bugs are finding me harder to riddle and the more well i am the more i want to do this is not intended as a pity party or a call for there there replies it s a statement that i want to do more be more active write more share more with my remarkable friends and people yet to encounter that ill or not diabetic or not part lame or not i m back in black and blue thanks for reading 3 comments belief health permalink posted by catvincent testing this thing still on 31 july 2010 a quick catch up post partly to test new fangled safari plugins mostly to let both my fans know what i ve been up to which is mostly reading postmodern tomes combining them with the great paranoid sf movies of the late 90s and from there to well suffice to say both my immediate writing projects guttershaman of course and the long series on movies with messages to be known as the mason lang film club coming soon from weaponizer are now being rethought bigtime but unassembled less than i feared something on both those fronts coming soon and probably a bit on inception or i lose my movie mystic badge 1 comment uncategorized permalink posted by catvincent doctor who and the cheapening of sacrifice 26 june 2010 trying to nail this down quickly after watching last episode of the first matt smith season of doctor who much as i loved the episode and season in many ways there s a huge painful flaw running through the show since russell t davies brought it back and sadly it seems stephen moffatt has inherited it in this universe personal sacrifice doesn t mean shit multiple times now we ve had major characters either trapped on the other side of an unassailable void or full blown dead after sacrificing themselves for the greater good and after a few minutes just long enough for the audience to get a bit weepy they magically come back and they just fucking did it again jack harkness rose tyler river song rory the doctor himself indestructable cos the plot requires it or cos they re special only ever mostly dead and this episode even had that phrase so it s not like they haven t seen princess bride for me this makes any sacrifice they make utterly meaningless other than that it was pretty good edit 1 of course there will be those who say about my who concerns it s only a kid s show true but as wife the shaman points out what message then is the show teaching our childrens trust mad strangers tears bring back the dead 2 the real contrast in attitude to death sacrifice in this incarnation heh of doctor who is summed up for me by the fifth doctor s attitude to the death of adric his angry refusal to even consider changing history to allow him to not die sits uneasily with the current tendency for waving the make it all better wand edit 2 after rewatching with my teenage son i thought that the real sacrifice had been auton rory the nobel warrior troubador who sat by his beloved lady s side for 2000 years just sitting thinking and fighting after that amount of time you re either a warrior supreme or raving mad possibly both but even that loss is retconned meat rory has auton rory s memories it seems but once i got over the previous hole just let it get all mythic on me and loved it much more well enough to take a few cool ideas to muck around with on how the doctor sort of turned himself into a story and when he was retold by amy dna from tear he reboots from backup it ll be interesting to hear whet the synchromystic folk think top thoughts at this point both amy rory are demigods and as for the lonely god what kind of god is doctor who he s a trickster god of course wife the artist often cleverer than i looked down at me and said well durr and the doctor has a married couple on his hands to show him how that works perhaps making his next meeting with river even more significant 2 comments rant tagged doctor who permalink posted by catvincent guttershaman and the fictionals 14 june 2010 this isn t so much a full guttershaman installment as a kind of dvd extras post for the talk i gave to the omphalos pagan moot in bath today the set up was stories and myth are the ground that magic and culture in general are rooted in although many magicians and pagans endeavour to base their practice on authentic historical roots there are other ways using the fictional tales that fill our culture as a modern mythology movies tv sf and fantasy fiction and comic books can all offer insights on magic and mysticism cat vincent coined the term guttershaman to describe this perspective an urban path based on the mix of fact and fiction with personal experience he talks about some of the inspiration he has found along this path with particular reference to the noted comic writers and practicing mages alan moore and grant morrison a few links for those that braved my mad rantings and thanks for a great reception all the guttershaman posts are collected here start at the bottom on alan moore and idea space http technoccult net archives 2010 04 22 alan moore http www angelfire com comics eroomnala lautwein html http entertainment timesonline co uk tol arts_and_entertainment books article822552 ece on v for vendetta anonymous and scientology http en wikipedia org wiki project_chanology on grant morrison and the invisibles http technoccult net archives 2010 04 22 grant morrison the canonical invisibles site was barbelith which developed from a fan page to one of the most interesting occult discussion groups around quiet these days but much food for thought there a very detailed morrison interview covering which bits of the invisibles are purely autobiographical http comicnews info p 3269 how close is the matrix to the invisibles here s 15 points of similarity morrison claims over 80 http everything2 com title the invisibles vs the matrix on hypersigils http www barbelith com topic 20184 http technoccult net archives 2010 02 18 hypersigils reconsidered on fiction and reality merging comic books and moore morrison both http electricchildren com wordpress p 334 1 comment uncategorized tagged alan moore comics fiction grant morrison guttershaman magic permalink posted by catvincent voting 6 may 2010 politics is the art of reconciling aspirations bruce sterling distraction election day begins and for the first time in the 28 years i have been eligible to do so i am going to vote i always vowed that i would never ever do so unless a candidate or party came along that were supporting at least some of my non standard views were not merely players in the status quo game i also vowed i d never vote against a party or position rather than for one unless the bnp or similar...