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“Science Does not Think”, so said Heidegger. And I am with him.

Scientists do not think. They formulate, scheme, experiment, control, create and destroy. They do all this without any consideration of the consequences or ethics of their actions. Heidegger wanted to put philosophy back on its thrown as the Queen of the sciences and the head of all other disciplines, where it should be, we might add! But, alas he was ignored.

Now we have CERN, the Large Hedron Collidor (LHC) in Switzerland. A gigantic particle accelerator that aims to give physicists answers to questions like what happened at the beginning of the Universe with the Big Bang? (Hello people…Its called the Big Bang, should we really try and understand that through experiment?!) Or other questions like: Are there any other dimensions beyond our own? What is dark matter? And many other fascinating questions of theoretical physicists.

The only problem is it could destroy the World. Not just Switzerland, or Europe or even the Earth but our whole surrounding Sun and planets.

Small problem that one.

How?

Well, the LHC could open a mini black hole that could swallow the Earth, it could release a thing called a strangelet that would act like Vonnegut’s famous Ice Nine and multiply and destroy all surrounding matter. Or other side effects involving major changes to matter and atoms.

Now, apparently it’s very unlikely for this to happen. One scientist said its like winning Lotto three times in a row. Is this the same scientist that said the chances of Life existing on Earth are like winning Lotto every week for a year? Well, the odds are something like that for life existing on Earth. There’s no reason to think that the odds that will snuff us out will be equally long.

The Problem is Science simply will not Think. It will not think that if even the possibility of damaging human beings and Being itself in our galaxy is possible through this infernal machine, it should not go ahead. Who gives a fuck if we find out more about sub atomic particles? Science has given us great material and medical things, but it hasn’t provided one iota of real value or meaning to human existence. If anything it has removed and made impotent any attempt to give human existence meaning.

What knowledge does it give me to know I’m made of atoms and particles or whatever? How does that help any human being live their life? It doesn’t.

Now, probably CERN concerns are unfounded. But the slightest possibility, of what it has the potential to unleash, is a good enough reason to stop it. It’s like some scary 70’s sci fi flick I grew up on.

As Ballard, says “ Its not a good idea to write about the future”. We know… because there may not be one.

CERN flicks the switch and start bashing together things (like gold particles -Alchemy?) at speeds unseen since the time of the Big Bang around October. To be safe move all plans forward to the four or five months left.

Of course, nothing will probably happen…

It will either be a great discovery for unthinking science or human kinds greatest folly? I’m buying lottery tickets. If I win three times in a row. I’m taken the next plane to CERN to stop them…

See story here and here.

See picture below. Its not from some new science fiction movie. That SOB is real. Looks like like an abyss to me. Thus spoke Nietzsche, “When you look into an abyss… remember it also looks back”.

Following the advice of the astute Wilhelm Reich, I highly recommend getting regurlar massages to all. Reich, amongst other things, recommended limited Reichian psychotherapy but also regurly massages as a replacement to release the bodies emotional ‘armor’ and free up Orgone energy.

Orgone energy is very much like the Chinese concept of Chi. That’s why I hunt out the wonderful hands of our Oriental friends at most malls or at special city boutiques when I can, to get a thorough release of Orgone/Chi energy.

You will find these massage artists at most Melbourne malls. Most can’t speak English, so don’t expect to discuss Reich with them, but they give excellent long remedial therapy to those in need.

Reich is a most interesting character, a true Renaissance man, mad scientist and true libertarian. I highly recommend his books, especially those on Sexuality. I don’t fully agree with his critique of Fascism. But some of his criticisms of old school Fascism in the 20’s and 30’s are indeed true and on the money and have to be overcome in any future regeneration of these political ideas. I’ve always wanted to get an Orgone Energy accumulator in my House (or basement) . Any one know where you can get them in Australia?

That Indonesian cunt Bakar Bashir has been inciting fellow citizens to attack Australian tourists, again!, like they did in Bali and to beat them up or harm them. See here and here.

Enough’s enough. Isn’t about time we followed Israel’s lead and took the fight to these bastards. Israel bumps off Hamas and Fatah leaders at random. Why can’t we be rid of this weasel Bashir? As a Transcendental Fascist, I deplore violence generally, but sometimes a little preventive medicine can go a long a way to save lives. It’s Jack Bauer morality time, people.

Surely, ASIO can set up some crazy Indonesian with a gun who can rid the world of this foul rodent. He delights in the carnage caused by the Bali bombings and Australia should act, covertly if necessary… to take out this mad cleric.

The cheeky monkey Bashir calls all Non Muslim’s “worms and maggots”, its time we introduced him to some real worms and maggots perhaps and he can decide for himself if that statement is true…

Australia needs to act. Just because the War on Terror started fake doesn’t mean legitimate putana’s like this shouldn’t be dealt with.

Act now before more Australian’s die from this asshole’s hate mongering.

Hanging out with the Savage brothers this weekend brought my attention to two sick US TV shows, Moment of Truth and To Catch a Predator from Dateline NBC.

Moment of Truth is where a contestant takes a lie detector test on every personal or private matter in their entire lives and all they have to do to win $ is answer the questions correctly a second time. Only this time in front of the family and friends that they are generally hurting, deriding or insulting. Its sort of like Scientology Auditing on live TV in front of a crowd but with your family and pals present. Its a purely sadistic show as people are forced to confess ever form of horrid personal feelings about everybody around them. They do this of course as the Network dangles the all mighty dollar on a stick in front of the contestants donkey like noses. A preview is below.

Dateline NBC’s series To Catch a Predator is the more troubling, though. Well, hard as it might be to say this…it basically exploits pedophilia for ratings. In conjunction with law enforcement and social anti-pedophile groups they set up sting operations where they pose as 13 or 12 year old girls online and set up ‘dates’. Of course soon a deranged gaggle of pedophile’s turn up in various cities to meet they’re supposed jail bait prey. The show is guilty of entrapment and cases have been dropped in the US from the shows methods…. but getting pedophiles off the streets is not the shows intention, exploiting the freak factor for ratings is. Yes, as your friendly neighborhood kiddy fiddler turns up for his ‘date’ instead of finding her or him, he finds an actress who is over eighteen but could be under, playing the ‘victim’. She asks if he has condoms and is ready for action, etc. Then bang in comes host Chris Hanson from behind a screen to start the ‘public humiliation of the pedophile for ratings show’ before the police come out of hiding. Hanson of course does his best to humiliate these losers on national TV before they apologize, go to leave and then of course the Police swoop in and arrest them. The show is pure sickening manipulation from both ends. I include a clip below from the show.

To Catch a Preadator is sick on two, maybe three levels. Firstly, obviously the pedophiles net prowling and second NBC’s decision to exploit these attempted crimes for ratings. There have been suicides from the show and it adds the punishment of  public humiliation to the predators entrapment on the show. Thirdly, it is sick because it creates the crime it seeks to stop, by trawling the net with lures and invitations from a 13 year old to get it on. Without TV camera’s a case could be made to legally do this, but with them it becomes a vial form of sadistic Entertainment. Its as if watching crack whores, meth heads and white trash getting busted on Cops is now not enough. Now we need, Pedocatch-TV! There are not many shows that confirm a completely misanthropic outlook on humanity…but this is one.

What’s next? To Catch a Killer or better yet To catch a Cannibal - Set up a show for murderer’s or cannibals by posting online fake id’s as willing victims, just so you can lecture the psycho’s who turn up about the error of their ways? Where does this quest for harsher reality TV end?

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In Hawaii, in late 07, I was switching between 100 channels on US cable one night before going Tiki bar hunting. I thought if TV can represent our collective unconscious, the mix of 100 channels I was self editing at random, like a Burroughs cut up, represented the collective unconscious of someone who is deeply insane. Strange synchronicities in dialogue began to occur and even stranger juxtapositioning of images. Anyone can do it…just sit in front of US cable (or Aussie) and change channel every 8 to 15 seconds and you will soon see what I mean. I’m sure most of us have done this many times? What do we see. The unconscious of an utterly insane entity. Throw in To catch a Predator and Moment of Truth and you have two more touch stones of Western mental unhingedness.

Technically, all of us who live in the West, are in America in some way…so their mental picture is not that far ahead (or behind) of ours. Not that it’s news to anyone ….but its clear the Capitalist West has clearly gone Insane. Psychopathology run amok.

Are we all doomed? How can we harness this ‘greatest danger’ from the media and technology in general and turn it into what Heidegger referred to as the ’saving power’? That is the question, Comrades, that indeed is the question…

Here are the two clips to boggle the mind. You wonder if American society isn’t terminally ill after watching these two latest forms of ‘Entertainment’.

In its usual vast stupidity, the Victorian Government has spent 600,000 of tax payer gelt on a campaign that says “Ice - Its a Dirty Drug”. As Kristen Condon, my erstwhile female consort pointed out to me, the copy is a play on “Its a Dirty Job, but someone’s got to do it”. So, like my posts on Idea Fix about creepy ads, the message of the billboard is subconsciously this - go out and take ice. Its a dirty job, but someone has to do it. How’s that for stupid? What ad genius thought that one up for a giggle?

Also, when is describing anything as dirty… a bad thing? I picked up this really dirty magazine. I saw this really dirty movie. I just had really dirty sex. That all sounds pretty cool to me?

The double message this ad sends out is Machiavellian. Ice, from what I have heard, is not a good drug. I have never tried it and most likely never will. From what I hear people seem to age fast on it, go a bit psycho and also get very bad skin. Some clubber friends from the good ol’ Hellfire days have tried it and the reviews aren’t all bad, some say its cool in small doses, but to be careful as its very addictive. It just sounds like some kind of uber Speed to me, which sounds gross. Ice might be good for Rufus Wainwright getting a cock up his ass or that guy from Grinspoon bemoaning his addiction to get extra press, but like Heroin, we at Idea Fix recommend giving Ice a wide birth. Its not a dirty drug, its just a stupid, destructive one.

But hey like Crowley said “Do what though wilt, shall be the whole of the law”. Drugs should all be legal and sold at the fucking Chemist with a doctor’s prescription. Drug use is a victimless crime of personal choice. Why we don’t legalise and tax it is beyond me? Apart from all the massive black market corruption, that exists and that finds its way into well documented corrupt law enforcement and I wager to the less well documented Capitalist politician’s greedy paws, drug prohibition is pointless. From ending this absurd drug war any Government will make a mountain of green from the tax revenue and also be able to put Police resources where their needed most, protecting civilians from the Barbarians that are inside our gates. Fresh rivers of money will flow to rebuild, redesign and truly reshape society. It works well partially in Amsterdam and that country has not slid of the face of Western Civilisation. Go the whole hog, end drug Prohibition.

A standing dictum and economic strategy of Transcendental Fascism is the legalisation of all drugs - full stop. Of course, drug counseling and state run rehab will be increased and initiatives introduced providing addicts with a life worth living beyond addiction in huge social programs that would be de riguer of a Transcendental Fascist future. Let’s end this second prohibition and the absurd and utterly ineffectual war on drugs. Let’s remove the crime element and pour the vast funds from the legal sale of drugs through Chemists (or new legal Drug Boutiques?) into vital, vigorous and Being orientated cultural and social programs. These initiatives will give people a real reason to stay off drugs. i.e a socially rewarding and culturally authentic life.

A second Greece awaits us! Athens reborn! We have the technology and (if only) the will… to free large portions of the population of the Planet from the Protestant need to work. We can once again spend lives purely in pursuit of art, culture and philosophy. Democracy and Communism are tied down in materialistic emptiness and dread levelling. Only a daring new free and open political force can free us from History as its been played out as metaphysics. We can end all class struggle in some societies, in a unified utopian vision. This vision is perfect for select countries like Australia, Sweden, Holland, Pacific Islands and many countries elsewhere in Asia, Africa, the America’s and Europe. This freedom will not be for everyone world wide, though, that is the Transcendental Fascist price of freedom. No absurd equality for all humanity. An impossible and planet destroying dream if ever there was one? Only the best, most vital and noble societies shall prosper in the upper heights of the new Releasement. We can live beyond the usury and dialectical materialism of this foolish economically driven world. True freedom awaits. Economics and materialism is nothing but a means to an end. A means to a way out of the forgetfulness of Being. It is ontologically possible, if we mobilise in the correct manner. Like Rocket Scientist and occultist Jack Parson’s once said, “Freedom is a double edge sword”. Transcendental Fascism or some variation on its theme, as I’m want to tell many, is the only way forward…

But I digress, these prescriptive ads from the Government, I believe, only serve to promote the allure of Ice to teenagers happy with booze or pot. Its dirty, hey, Corey, let’s try that when Mum and Dad are away this weekend at your party…

Poor fools.

What’s up with the pictures of Chairman Mao in Chinese Restaurants?

China Bar in Melbourne has a picture of Mao walking stridently in Green Uniform across a part of the Forbidden City. There’s also a bar called Double Happiness where Mao smiles down on punters at happy hour doubling the drink sales. There’s even a restaurant called Mao’s with miniature statues and posters of the Great Leader everywhere.

Is this the same Mao whose death toll as a mass murderer comes in at around 40 million human beings? It is just add the figures from the Rural and Urban Purges, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Tibet, Forced land reform, work camp deaths and collectivisation. The figure could be even more if you add in the Famine’s caused by his regime’s stupidity.

What is so cuddly about Mao that we want to stare at his iconic metaphorically blood soaked face while we dine on Beef Chow Fun? I have even seen Stalin, the 20th centuries greatest liquidator of human beings adorn some venues and book shops in Melbourne.

Can you imagine a German restaurant having diners sit under portraits of Hitler in full regalia? Why not, he’s no worse than Mao. Hitler’s death toll stands at around 6 million (leaving WW2 out, ok, ok, add another 20 Million if your a pedant) and he is still a third place starter, compared to Mao and Stalin.

Or perhaps on Lygon st., can you envisage dining under the smiling vista of Il Duce? Mussolini is not a blip on the war criminals of the twentieth century wall chart. His own atrocities don’t even make it into 7 figures. Mussolini ranks under half a million people killed and only if you include the Ethiopian conflict.

I’m not one to advocate censorship and taking down these Commie psycho’s from Restaurant walls, as they have a certain pop culture perversity and je ne sais quoi. They are icons of certain ideas and have a romantic appeal to Leftists, I imagine. Hell, I have a soft spot for Mao and Stalin’s crazy ambition, strong leadership concepts, writings and their self evident historical significance. I like this portrait of Mao too by the way (above) adorning this article. I don’t know why?

So, let these Commies hang.

But, please lets have a little sympathy for the other spectrum of politics. Fascist dictators are getting a raw deal, in the restaurant icon adornment stakes. You heard it here first on Idea Fix, peeps.

Perhaps, in the name of simple fair play in the realm of iconic mad dictator art, let’s see The Fuhrer, Franco and Il Duce’s happy visages smiling down benevolently on the people of Melbourne. Yes, in German, Spanish and Italian restaurants who want to get even in the pop culture icon stakes, let see these Fascist’s lead the way… to a delicious meal.

Bon Appetite.

I wrote a post called the Monstrous a few weeks back about how I find a lot of today’s advertising taking on a strange form of monsterism and deliberate decay.

Now I’m all for people who deface mainstream ads and make them ugly or change the message, etc. More strength to you.

But the phenomenon that interests me of late is the horrific message hidden in plain site behind a lot of modern ads.

Here’s one I saw recently for a Dymo labelling machine of all things:

The ad is supposed to be humorous but instead gives a picture of mutant teeth parent archetypes that says something completely different about mutation and deformity. I intend to post more of these ads which to me reveal the nightmare side of Capitalist emptiness.

Dear Citizens,

The following ten mandates are compulsory activities that you must participate in to be considered normal between the ages 18 to 35. Failure to do so in extreme cases may require certain measures to be taken by us (only if necessary and only if your actions get out of hand… which we admit is extremely rare these days). The Action we take will not always be in your best interest. You have been warned. Citizens obey these goodly laws!

1. You must fall in love and spend all your time consumed with feelings and thoughts of love. When one exchange ends desperately seek another. Love is all you need, remember, what the Beatles said! Love. Love. Love. Puppy dogs. Furry Cats. Cute ducks all in a row. Spend all your time thinking of love and pursuing love interests. Do not get disillusioned when reality intrudes on you. Love, love, love… then die.

2. You must stay juvenile and play all kinds of games that amused you as children. Enjoy liberally video games, mild sports, light entertainment, pop and rock music and concerts galore, comedy shows, festivals of all sorts, etc., etc… especially those of a childish and innocent nature. Stay young forever. Never grow up. Remain a child in your heart. Children are much easier to control than adults. We saw what happened at the beginning of the last century when you grow up into dreaded adults. Anyway, we are the adults. Since WW2 and the baby bomber generation it has been decided you all must remain children. Do so.

3. You must protest peacefully in the streets any human rights abuses or wrongful actions by us whether we come from the USA or Europe. Do all this while you safely sit behind the protection of the walls of the West in the giant Green Zone we have created for you that extends from the former walls of Eastern Europe to the waters of Perth. You are safe here. We respect and duly note all your objections to our policies and apologize in advance for any upset or angst it may cause you. Please do not hesitate to write your thoughts and feelings to our Propaganda department. We will happily publish and share your feelings with others for polite discussion and debate.

4. You must always uphold the principles of democracy and democratic rights. So what if, as some dissidents may say, democracy is mob rule, the lowest common denominator, populism or maintenance of the status quo. You get to change our representative every ten years or more. So quit complaining. It will do no good.

5. You must never believe in any forms of truly revolutionary government against the benign Western Capitalist system. To do so is tantamount to terrorism. To even write about such, a potential thought crime. Remember you are all children in love and that all you need is love and that love is all that we give you. Do not get frustrated by the system. Do not ever think for yourselves. Do not ever use Violence. Do not ever support Terrorism in any form. Or else you will end up like David Hicks. Even though we admit his treatment was a little unfair and worthy of financial compensation perhaps.

6. Socialism and Communism are encouraged and de riguer in your twenties until you marry, mate and have a mortgage. Read Marx and the vast literature that surrounds him. But do not become a true revolutionary. Marx and others are really like a fashion statement like that Che T Shirt. Enjoy it as aesthetics and then forget it. Then it’s Labor or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, Tory or Labor …sorry.

7. You must all read literature and introduction books to Philosophy, Politics, Ethics and Human Rights. Especially Alain De Botton style works and BBC style introductions, these are perfect for your needs. Do not read too closely, though, we advise. Remember Post Modernism’s main dictums: there is no truth, if there is any it’s all relative, everything has already been done and thought… so all that remains is to sort through the wreckage of our culture. Sort away. Sort away forever and ever. We have given you an endless task with no meaning. Enjoy! Read only the most famous book of a well known author. Only read books that exist or at least can co-exist within the Western Liberal Humanist Canon. Only read books published by mainstream publishers. Other books can be read, but to condemn them only and to see what evil is truly like.

8. Do not believe in anything religious and if you must believe in religion do so as a fashion or outward sign of conformity like going to Church on Sundays to alleviate your conscience and beg for your sins. You are a human being descended from apes. A tiny piece of dust in the universe that is utterly meaningless. We have worked everything out and there is nothing more you need know. Religion is interesting from a historical perspective only. Give generously though to religious and all charities… not from a belief in a god but from your belief in the brotherhood of all humanity. From Love. It will make you feel so much better. If you are a celebrity like Bono, Bob Geldof or Oprah make sure all your giving is fully broadcast and duly recorded so you can be praised by us while alive and beautified by us after you are gone. You are not a real saint, just a top notch A list celebrity. Hallelujah!

9. Do not hold any elitist beliefs on religion, race, nationalism, culture, gender. Unless covertly sanctioned by us.

10. You must all take drugs of some sort. Whether it be alcohol, cigerettes or light recreational drugs like E and marijuana. When these get too much for you we recommend prescription medication for all your needs. Valium or Xanax for mild anxiety. Anti Depressent’s later if needed. The world is not depressing… it is you that are depressed. The world is not wrong, you are. You are sick. You need our help, our technologies will keep you well. Lie back take a pill, feel better, everything is under control. Go to sleep, go to sleep.

More instructions to follow. Obey them. Complain a bit if you like online. The internet is freedom. It is the ultimate democracy. You are all allowed to speak, just no one of any import will every listen. Just don’t do anything to really change things. Do not crave power - Ever. Do not read Histories of people who have changed things or achieved real power and change - Ever. Do not whatever you do ACT on these ideas - Ever, Ever. Just sleep. We love you so very, very much.

Channelled (unwillingly) by Richard Wolstencroft, under psychic duress, from the ether.

Suharto is dead. Just in time to make January’s bumper issue of (what we hope will be an ongoing series of special articles, here on Idea Fix) Dictator of the Month.

Yes, former Indonesian strong man Suharto has passed onto that great big Presidential Palace in the sky. Here’s a little profile helped along by The Associated Press with our own wee jokey shenanigans (in brackets and elsewhere):

Suharto was born in 1921 in obscure circumstances (possibly a little bastard). He rose up the ranks of the Indonesian military and survived accusations of corruption that put him in the dog house for a while in the 50’s. Those magic words “Absolute Power” came to him in September 1965 when the army’s six top generals were murdered under mysterious circumstances, and their bodies dumped in an abandoned well in an apparent coup attempt (Wasn’t me!). Our main man in da hood Suharto, next in line for command, quickly asserted authority over the armed forces and promoted himself to four-star general (naturally, as you do).

Suharto then oversaw a nationwide purge of suspected communists (good on him!) and trade unionists, a campaign that stood as the region’s bloodiest event (he went a little too far perhaps?) since World War II until the Khmer Rouge and that naughty Pol Pot established its gruesome regime in Cambodia a decade later (Damn, pipped at the finish). Experts put the number of deaths during the purge in Indonesia at between 500,000 and 1 million (chickenfeed, really… by mad 20th century dictator standards).

During the Cold War, Suharto was considered a reliable friend of Washington (’Our Man’ in Jakarta), which didn’t oppose his violent occupation of Papua in 1969 and the bloody 1974 invasion of East Timor. The latter, a former Portuguese colony, became Asia’s youngest country with a U.N.-sponsored plebiscite in 1999 (lucky Timor hey, kids?)

Even Suharto’s critics agree his hard-line policies kept a lid on Indonesia’s extremists (double good on him!). He locked up hundreds of suspected Islamic militants without trial (boo hoo), some of whom later carried out deadly suicide bombings (yikes!) with the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah (I ate that Saturday night and it made me feel ill) after the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. (spooky)

Meanwhile, the ruling clique that formed around Suharto — nicknamed the “Berkeley mafia” after their American university, the University of California, Berkeley — transformed Indonesia’s economy and attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment (Greed is good)

By the late 1980s, Suharto was describing himself as Indonesia’s “father of development,” taking credit for slowly reducing the number of abjectly poor and modernizing parts of the nation (see, not all bad…)

Finally toppled by mass street protests in 1998 (boo) , Suharto’s departure opened the way for democracy in this predominantly Muslim nation of 235 million people (Double boo, surely, nothing but a boon for world peace there!)

So that brings us up to date with today, the Bali bombings and other mischief. Suharto…we hardly knew ya. Idea Fix salutes you…have a nice time in Hell.

Link to wiki Profile of Suharto:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto

Let’s get fucked up!

Picture of me at a Tiki Bar in Hawaii!

Enjoy Australia Day weekend…I know I will.