BushwickBK.com: should I replace your giant author-page bio with this as well? BushwickBK.com: or keep that and just tack this on to your columns me: nah, leave that BushwickBK.com: ok me: tack this on, just mainly want people to have easy access to more info on PM me: will replace that link with another when manifesto goes up BushwickBK.com: yeah BushwickBK.com: in, um, April me: SHUT UP me: I was on the smack BushwickBK.com: haha me: just got off again week and a half ago, output is up to highest levels ever BushwickBK.com: yeah you cranked that column out in a second BushwickBK.com: though, you kind of wrote it in your IM to me BushwickBK.com: haha BushwickBK.com: which I have totally done many times BushwickBK.com: copy-paste a rant, add punctuatona nd capitalization BushwickBK.com: voila, article me: seriously, got nothing to do now, have to actually work me: fucking non-narcotic, task-based lifestyle BushwickBK.com: yeah, all having to like do stuff and whatever me: luckily the Cuban guy who lives below me sells 15 mg oxys, so I still get to have fun me: yeah, had to resort to dating BushwickBK.com: there are Cubans in Bushwick who aren't hipsters or landlords? me: yes, I know of two me: one is a chef me: the other works at a tienda and sells pills and also smokes me out in the backyard over here BushwickBK.com: the caribbean hierarchy here is very noticeable to me me: not me, all I know is Mexican and Not Mexican BushwickBK.com: PR = tenants/customers/wards me: although I was dating that Trinidad girl me: lol yes BushwickBK.com: Dominican = landlords/proprietors/workers me: also, I love how three or four PRs have told me how bad PRs are as people BushwickBK.com: Cuban = higher form than previous BushwickBK.com: what little CUbans there are here BushwickBK.com: haha BushwickBK.com: when we moved here BushwickBK.com: you know Luis is PR right BushwickBK.com: HE asked ME BushwickBK.com: what the fuck is wrong with these people BushwickBK.com: why do they act/live like this BushwickBK.com: he had some contact with nuyoricans growing up in orlando BushwickBK.com: and knows they're ghetto-acting BushwickBK.com: but the ones in orlando are filtered -- they had the motivation to move there BushwickBK.com: so he had no real idea how bad it was me: right me: filtering is important BushwickBK.com: the ricans left in Bushwick are the stain left after all the others made their money and gtfo BushwickBK.com: all the stores were once owned by PRs me: All I know is that they don't trust each other. You may remember I was involved with this little weed-traficking group of PRs BushwickBK.com: many of the bldgs BushwickBK.com: and businesses me: they were always fucking each other over BushwickBK.com: they sold and either went back to PR or moved to the burbs the second they could me: exactly two were trustworthy BushwickBK.com: haha yeah me: one of em, this fucker named Nelson BushwickBK.com: like I said, what's left here is not the best me: stole two guns from the guy he sold weed for BushwickBK.com: it's fucked because they're the dominant image of PRs me: and ran off to Marcy Projects BushwickBK.com: though they're the minority of them me: two months back BushwickBK.com: I wouldn't run after anyone into those projects me: but yeah, store next door, owned/operated by dominacans BushwickBK.com: every store and restaurant is fdominican BushwickBK.com: EVERY me: people you see going to work - Hondurans, Ecuadorians, Mexicans BushwickBK.com: the two PR-run places I have been in were revoltng and awful BushwickBK.com: yes me: I have absolutely no idea where the PRs get their inevitably expensive cars BushwickBK.com: that's what they spend their money on BushwickBK.com: not housing, not edication BushwickBK.com: not even food me: I'm the only hipster who was spending any amount of money buying drugs from them BushwickBK.com: just cars and such me: as far as I can tell BushwickBK.com: and you know what, that's their choice and I don't care BushwickBK.com: it's when they do that and then they cry poverty, or rather, some activist cries poverty for them BushwickBK.com: is when I'm annoyed BushwickBK.com: they're not poor, they have different spending patterns me: no shit they do me: not that I can talk BushwickBK.com: nobody in the US is poor -- AXIOM me: but I'm not representative of white arriviste culture BushwickBK.com: no certianly not me: If I was, the blacks would rule the world BushwickBK.com: lol BushwickBK.com: oh yeah that was my explanation to Luis BushwickBK.com: for what hjappened to PRs BushwickBK.com: get off the plane, you're a citizen BushwickBK.com: where do you move? the projects BushwickBK.com: who's already there? blacks BushwickBK.com: generations together has made PRs black me: well, they do say "nigga" even more than the blacks do me: seriously, my apartment back in the day me: NIGGA BushwickBK.com: omg, I have seen black people uncomfortable with it me: NIGGA, LISTEN BushwickBK.com: like ont he train, this one VERY light skinded PR guy me: NIGGA, GONNA BUY A REMOTE CONTROL CAR BushwickBK.com: aying nigga EVERY 10 SECONDS BushwickBK.com: on the phone me: interesting, I didn't think they cared at all BushwickBK.com: these black people were staring at him with much disapproval BushwickBK.com: oh they care BushwickBK.com: I think to say it once in a while is one thing me: well, they learned it from them BushwickBK.com: this was like, the only word in his vocab me: FROM YOU, DAD! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU BushwickBK.com: haha BushwickBK.com: btw saying all this makes us racists BushwickBK.com: according to certain me: you must get in a lot of conflicts with these PC folks as you always mention that. I never have those encounters, probably because I don't run Bushwickbk BushwickBK.com: m, yes BushwickBK.com: mostly it;s that I am aware of their views BushwickBK.com: I haven't necessarily had run-ins, though I have had a few, mostly way int he past when it was just me blathering about bullshit BushwickBK.com: the gentrification "debate" is stupid BushwickBK.com: not last because we don't have british-style birth-classes me: speaking of which, Lib Dems, eh me: be nice to see them do well BushwickBK.com: not paying attention, but Justin seems into it BushwickBK.com: this Clegg fellow BushwickBK.com: shaking up is always good BushwickBK.com: glad london got rid of red ken me: they're more libertarian than not BushwickBK.com: now we need to get rid of red mike me: who, Bloomberg? BushwickBK.com: yep BushwickBK.com: philip giraldi says israel will attack iran efore august BushwickBK.com: if that happens and pussy cocksucker Obama backs them up BushwickBK.com: will the US finally crack up? BushwickBK.com: please say yes BushwickBK.com: I want 1000+ city-states me: me too, but I've always wanted that me: fucking Aegean-style setup FTW me: we need more islands, also me: also, this would be the 50,000th report of Iran about to be bombed in last six years BushwickBK.com: I don't think the islands are necessary me: which is not to say it won't happen BushwickBK.com: pre-nationalist germany and italy is a good model BushwickBK.com: yes I know BushwickBK.com: we have run many many things over the years saying Iran will be attacked....now.....nnnnow....nnnnnnnnnow BushwickBK.com: but that's fair, since the govt has been screeching about iran getting nukes....now...nnnnow.......nnnnnnnow BushwickBK.com: I literally remember being a CHILD BushwickBK.com: hearing Iran will have nukes in 5 years BushwickBK.com: and then presumably commit suicide with them by nuking Israel or the US BushwickBK.com: since thos emullahs are insane BushwickBK.com: hiding their insanity with all their demonstrations of rationality to trick us me: see, that proves they're insane! BushwickBK.com: devious me: also me: this may interest you me: as a homo me: http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/05/05/christianity-is-gay/ me: or maybe not BushwickBK.com: excellent me: my mom really is essentially a witch though BushwickBK.com: my grandma was similar BushwickBK.com: VERY catholic but then had books about witchcraft and a basement full of crystals bullshit me: wait, wait, wait me: you're saying that a Catholic engaged in superstitious and magic activity beyond what is laid out in the Bible itself?!?!?! BushwickBK.com: shocking, I know BushwickBK.com: I remember once at the flea market, she was visiting BushwickBK.com: dragging us around the hot asphalt to look at crap BushwickBK.com: she asked me "if I buy you a children's bible will you read it" BushwickBK.com: me: no BushwickBK.com: she was so angry that I "listened to my grandfather" BushwickBK.com: who was an avowed athiest BushwickBK.com: I didn't listen that much to him, not more than anyone else BushwickBK.com: it's just that even at 8 or whatever BushwickBK.com: religion seemed fucking retarded BushwickBK.com: and fake as fuck BushwickBK.com: my little brother turned out the same as me, he's even more militant BushwickBK.com: I think cuz he lives in a backwater at least as far as such things exist in suburban suth florida BushwickBK.com: his gf basically said she won't marry him unless he believes in crystals me: lol me: big loss there BushwickBK.com: hah yeah BushwickBK.com: I think she's getting over it BushwickBK.com: she's my age so if they're gonna do it, they need to get going for babies and whatnot me: also me: regarding Project PM me: things are going pretty fucking well me: particularly insomuch as that it was being spearheaded by a degenerate junkie me: got this retired lawyer in Chicago, for instance me: he's in charge de facto of our first branch project BushwickBK.com: sounds good, I haven't read the whole thing yet me: which is to be a charitable trust intent on providing bang-for-your-buck, high marginal utility aid to African villages BushwickBK.com: oh? me: the trust will be overseen by the governing network BushwickBK.com: why is this important? BushwickBK.com: to the project I mean me: which is, despite my overt statements, the true purpose of all this me: okay, couple people know of this BushwickBK.com: what, more efficient stoves for africa? me: my friend-since-3rd grade Caleb PRitchard, who's now my right hand on this and is a producer at an NBC affiliate in Texas, former Daily News guy me: plus Michael Hastings, former Baghdad correspondent for Newsweek me: my lawyer/friend Mirna Hariz me: and a couple other folks me: anywho me: the purpose of the charity is to do it better than existing charities, to show that collaborative networks along the lines I'm proposing are superior to board rooms and governments me: not just in this respect me: but all respects me: not simply because of the particular benefits of my network design me: but because of larger trend, newfound ability of the erudite and reasonable folks of the globe to work in tandem me: though my design helps me: now BushwickBK.com: I dig that me: this is being pushed as a media reform project me: and it is me: but it's also something more BushwickBK.com: why is the media reform the fake thing? BushwickBK.com: not fake, but secondary me: which is my intent to set up a de facto landless republic run by a technocratic elite me: well me: first, because it's got enough nuance and purpose on its own to draw in high-caliber folks, as it has me: second, because I really do intend to strike at least a small blow against the existing media infrastructure me: third, because I need a propaganda organ me: at any rate me: got 50, 60 people on board me: former hedge fund managers BushwickBK.com: all fine, but this doesn't say why the media bit is secondary to the charity thing me: lawyers me: oh me: the media thing is primary to charity thing me: what I meant me: is that the governing network is primary to the media network BushwickBK.com: the charity thing is a test of the media thing's aility? BushwickBK.com: oh I see me: this charity bid is a means of testing, demonstrating power of the network me: the governing network BushwickBK.com: got it BushwickBK.com: I liek it me: there are layers of goals here me: the end goal me: is to get all of these people into my crazy future government without telling them that they are being recruited by an eccentric drug addict for some crazy future government me: because a lot of people, even clever ones, lack imagination me: and would be all like, "Radical change?!?! Impossible!" BushwickBK.com: I am VERY into this shit me: whereas I can essentially prove by means of thought experiment and logical proof that we are on the verge of massive, fucking unprecedented tumult in terms of social organization BushwickBK.com: not sure if you have stalked my belies or whtever me: I know BushwickBK.com: beliefs me: that's why I'm telling you about this BushwickBK.com: but this is very similar to how I think the world is heading me: exactly, and you should see the e-mails I'm getting BushwickBK.com: even anarchists are usually too dumb to grasp what I mean me: every intelligent, observant person has come to the same general conclusion BushwickBK.com: when I say that eh anrky will come and nobody will notice me: we all know what's to come me: this is a means of accelerating it me: you may have noticed the symbol I designed for PM BushwickBK.com: the state will just be co-opted and picked at, everything it does (worth doing) will be taken over by nonstate actors me: exactly me: doesn't matter whether or not these states still exist as the shared fictions they are me: we co-opt BushwickBK.com: yes me: they become irrelevant BushwickBK.com: as they already are in many areas BushwickBK.com: most, really me: what matters is where lies the allegiance of the capable BushwickBK.com: my perspective is that 99% o our ctivities are ungverned me: ah, very good point me: I'll incorporate that into the notes me: I've got tons of raw material, going to do my third book on the topic, not sure how explicitly, though me: but seriously me: I told Hastings, the Newsweek fellow, about this in phone conversation, for instance, and he's excited as hell BushwickBK.com: sry phone me: which tells me that I can recruit all sorts of heavies into this will full knowledge of what we're doing me: and it doesn't matter if my crazy long-term intentions are leaked because the irrational don't believe in conspiracies and the rational will support this one BushwickBK.com: this is great BushwickBK.com: well I have plenty of friends who would be into this me: good me: have them e-mail me if they have any questions BushwickBK.com: I will BushwickBK.com: I'm thinking especally of my friend Ray BushwickBK.com: are you in touch with Reason ppl? BushwickBK.com: I don't know them personally except Brian D who is a bit of a dick because I'm very good friends with his ex-gf of many years and he's for some reason competitive with her BushwickBK.com: but seems like they'd be into it too me: I've never spoke to anyone at Reason me: don't have any special contacts there or anything BushwickBK.com: k just curious BushwickBK.com: are you aware of RBSCC BushwickBK.com: what they are etc BushwickBK.com: ridgewood bushwick senior citizens council me: nope BushwickBK.com: they're basically a tweed org BushwickBK.com: largest single employer and probably houser in bushwick BushwickBK.com: started by vito lopez, boss of the bk dems and state assemblyman me: oh, do they own that huge building on Beaver? BushwickBK.com: they hate my guts BushwickBK.com: YES BushwickBK.com: and many other things me: gotcha, BushwickBK.com: hey're a private nonprofit whose income is 100% government derived BushwickBK.com: anyway I own their fucking web presence BushwickBK.com: it's very satisfying me: lol nice