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I've known a lot of
people
go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than
people
dying.
People
dying is quite natural,
people
going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
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There is a house above the world, where the over-
people
gather.
There is a man with wings like a bird.
There is a man who can see across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite.
There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues.
In the house above the world, the over-
people
gather...
And sit...
And listen...
... To a dry, mad voice that whispers of Earthdeath.
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There are
people
. There are stories. The
people
think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
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Take disintegration far enough and you get a new form of integration. I tend to see all this in neural terms. It doesn't matter how big your brain is, or how many cells or neurons in it, what matters is the synaptic fusions, the connections that determine how intelligent you are. As with the individual, so with the macrocosm. That's how the kind of society I live in works, me and my friends and my contacts, we don't work in any hierarchical sense. No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The
people
you like working with are the
people
you respect as individuals.
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If I realised the power of magic to worry and terrify
people
before, then I certainly would have used it before. Everyone freezes before it for different reasons – perhaps because it means madness to them, or because it means opening the door to a whole lot of stuff that the Age of Reason should have firmly bolted the door upon. A lot of concepts that we got rid of a long time ago that would be a bit creepy to have them back.
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Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that. I am very fond of the anarchist proverb regarding laws – good
people
have no need for them, bad
people
pay no attention to them, what are they there for, other than as a symbol of power – 'We can say this is law'. I could say I rule the universe, it depends on whether anyone believes me or not. To some degree, I don't think the authorities care whether the law is observed or not, as long as it is there, and everyone accepts the idea of law. As long as they buy into the idea of law.
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Most of the
people
who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
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Anarchy – anarchon – no leaders. Which means, everybody is a leader. You can't have an official set of rules for anarchy. I tend to think such connections casually, and break and form and break and form throughout our lives. If you look back ten years, you will remember a group of friends who you were productively involved with at that time, now some of them have drifted away, new
people
have come in. These are more naturalistic linkages, which exist while there is a need for them to exist. It's more like the way ants work.
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If I wanted a full-scale manifestation, one that was apparent to other
people
, then I would do a ritual. I have displayed the snake god to other
people
. Or I have consciously hypnotised them into accepting my psychotic belief system, given them drugs, and made them think they are having the experience I have. Whatever you want. I'm not fussed.
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The twigs will be tied together in a neater and stronger bundle if they are all the same size and length. That's fascism. It suggests that you have two contrary organisational principles involved … One is a kind of linear, meccano-like organisation – tie up all the sticks, make sure they are the same length, and you have a brick wall or something. The other one – anarchy – is a more fractal more natural more human organisational system in that it organises society in much the same way that we organise our personalities. Where it is purely the interplay of neurons – we haven't got a king neuron that tells all the other neurons what to do. It seems to me to be a more emotionally natural way of working with other
people
.
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I have a more fractal way of working, if you like, it is more like the way most
people
's minds actually work. They don't work in any linear way. When your mind wanders if you ever pay attention to some of the paths it takes, you generally find it's these paths of association that can link all over the place. …The movements of the mind don't follow any linear pattern, they can't be explained with a mechanistic, clockwork view. You could find quantum models of how the mind works that might fit.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
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Born:
November 18, 1953
(age 71)
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