Tcahr Issue 34

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Tcahr

 · 5 years ago

  

 
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   "To aid in the incubation, breeding, and release of butterflies in Asia." 
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 Vol. 02, Iss. 10                             State of the Evil Memetic Empire 
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It's almost amusing.  Sometimes when you rant a mean streak for so long, you 
end up running out of material without knowing it.  For the last two months, 
I've had a less than half-finished and admittedly limp-dicked issue of TCAHR 
taking up kilobytes. 

I have no intention of me or my memes disappearing in into the void again.  It 
seems to me that there's been a lot of loose typing hinting about this here 
petri dish named the "textfile scene" being dead.  It also seems that some of 
our ilk have upped and died themselves.  Now what kind of follower of Darwin 
would I be if I just let TCAHR up and die; especially at this crucial juncture? 
I should rejoice in the silence and apparent death of other e-zines if only for 
the extended breeding space this gives to my own particular memes. 

Go ahead.  Prove me wrong. 

Seeing as our usual sources of inspiration have become scarce, TCAHR must seek 
new sources of inspiration to devour or face its own death.  So I'm going to 
offer the following two entries into the Polymemetic Textfile Project as I 
analyse new prey.  I'll even be running about looking for other memeplexes 
looking for contributors.  Come on, who needs a merc? 

In other words, I'm not gone.  I'll be back when I find some interesting ideas 
to sink my teeth into and bring back bleeding from the neck to drop at your 
feet. 

The Jaguar 
TCAHR CEO 

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     I.    Kids are Funny 
     II.   Spinal Re-Alignment 
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I.  Kids are Funny 

    I trust no life-changing decisions from anyone under the age of 25.  In 
    fact, I prefer to mock them from the advantage point of a few more years 
    away from the rages of puberty.  I tend to be amused by their choices in 
    careers, sexuality, politics, and religion (especially religion).  I am as 
    amused by the 19-year old trust fund Wiccan Goth dispensing the wisdom of 
    the ages as I am by the college feminist under the four-year lesbian plan. 
    It is rare to find someone at 30 who is still in the thrall of the ideas 
    which claimed them at the age of 20. 

    I mock them, but I love them.  Perhaps the most enduring quality of youth 
    is its gluttonous appitite for memetic experimentation.  It is the fire of 
    blind passion they bring to it that troubles me.  Blind passion seems to be 
    an inherent quality of a lack of experience.  This unchecked 
    emotional-based exuberence is why extremists from both the right- and 
    left-wing court them.  The young and idealistic make excellent cannon 
    fodder for the causes of those possessing mature idealogies tempered by 
    reason and reality. 

II.  Spinal Re-Alignment 

    I sincery believe that happiness can only be achieved by intense 
    examination of your own world-view and to eliminate all distractions to 
    that ideal.  Any TCAHR reader of some time has already encountered my 
    obsession with Machiavelli, the Nietzschian ubermench, and memetic 
    Darwinism.  My personal world-view revolves around this.  Do I believe my 
    philosophy is superior? 

    Of course I do!  Everyone follows whatever they personally believe to be 
    superior.  You would have to be a moron to follow a morality that you are 
    both unlearned and uncomfortable with.  The proper question is am I happy 
    following my world-view with all the vigor of a ascetic monk? 

    Of course I do!  If you hate the color purple, you don't paint your home in 
    purple.  So if eating meat makes you uncomfortable, don't eat meat.  If you 
    find sexual mores manipulative, don't have sex.  If you despise trashy 
    television and movies, stop watching them.  If your friends annoy you to no 
    end, dump them immediately!  Envoke upon yourself a sturdy backbone made of 
    a code of honor and ethics, then use that spine to walk away and never look 
    back. 

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 The Committee Against Human Rights -- http://maq.port5.com 
 TCAHR Manifesto -- http://maq.port5.com/disman.html 
 The Polymemetic Textfile Project -- http://maq.port5.com/polymemetic.txt 
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