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         [  The Voter's Paradox  ]              [  By Leon Falkins  ]


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                                    (c) Leon Felkins, 1994




                     THE VOTER'S PARADOX


 (The Conflict of Group Interest and Individual Rationality)


                             by


                        Leon Felkins

                 leonf@nancy.msfc.nasa.gov










                  Version: 6/18/94





   [Note, this is an abbreviated version of a work now in
        progress to be published in the near future.]








     Introduction

          Diabolical Choices of the Individual in a
          Group

          Related Philosophical Dilemmas

     Definition of the Paradox

          Exploring all sides of the issue

               Public Vs Private Solutions

               The Paradox in other Dimensions

                    Time

                    Looking out for Future Generations

          The Classic Definition

          The Extended Definition

          Rational Behavior

               The Rationale for being Rational

               "Rational Behavior" defined

               Limited Resources and Tradeoffs

               Internal Programming

               The Perceived Environment

                    Good feelings

                         Is it a good thing?

                         My Reputation

                    The Motivating Forces behind Good

                    Feelings

                         The Programming - Genes and

                         Memes

                         The Current Environment

                         Our Perceptions

                    Ignorance ("extra rational")

          Detailed Analysis

               The Net Return

                    BG

                         Community Center built from

                         Volunteer Contributions

                         Volunteers save the Town by

                         Sandbagging the Levee

                    BI

                         Contribution to Public

                         Television

                    C

               The "Holistic" effects

               Impact of Infinite Vs Finite payoff

               The impact of Discreet results

                    "But my vote might break the tie"

                    The Wasted Vote Myth

               The Impact of Large size with some
               randomness

               A change so small it cannot be detected

               Impact of group size

                    The Size of the Group

                    Anonymity

                         The Psychological

                         Cost/Benefits

                         Behavior and the size of the
                         group

                         Freeloaders

               But what if everyone did that?

     Examples

          Cutting off my nose to spite my face

     Ramifications

          Crime

               Social acceptability of criminal
               activity

               Decrease in expected punishment

               Reduced expectation of actually being
               punished

          Sex

          Politics

          Government

     Ways to Remove the Paradox

          Directly tying the return to the cost

          Small Groups

          Coercion and other outside inducements

               Using the Government to do your dirty
               work

                    Environmental Groups

                    Funding of the arts

     Summary

          Societal Problems resulting from the VP

          Many do cooperate and that is enough for
          success in many situations

     References







I.   Introduction



     A.   Diabolical Choices of the Individual in a Group

     When an individual has reason to contribute to what is
basically a group activity in which the benefits of the
group activity are shared by the group, certain puzzling
phenomena are evident that can only be described as
"diabolical". While there is no generally accepted
terminology for these phenomena, various manifestations are
often referred to as the "Voter's Paradox", the "Volunteer's
Paradox", the "Tragedy of the Commons", and similar terms.

     The definition for "paradox" used in this essay is "a
person, situation, act, etc. that seems to have
contradictory or inconsistent qualities" from Webster's
dictionary. Basically, what we have is two apparently
contradictory truths in the same phenomena.

     Strangely, the "Voter's Paradox" manifestation seems to
be a double paradox. The first can be expressed as, "while
it is true that a particular endeavor would return a benefit
to all members of the group where each individual would
receive rewards that more than compensate for each
individual's contribution, it is also true that any
particular individual would receive an even greater net
return by not contributing anything". I will call this the
"freerider" aspect.

     The second paradox is that, "while it is true that the
outcome of a group effort is made up of the sum of the
individual efforts, in many cases a particular individual's
contribution makes no significant and/or measurable impact
on the outcome". I will call this the "my vote doesn't
count" aspect.

     Let us make sure we have a clear understanding of what
we are talking about as the insinuation that a paradox
exists is a serious assertion. Utmost precision is required
to insure that we are not just experiencing a problem of
sloppy thinking here.

     The claim is that a situation can exist such that: (1);
while everyone would be better off if everyone contributed
(cooperating), a particular individual is always better off
not contributing (defecting) and (2); the individual's
contribution will not effect the outcome anyway. The reader
should not be too quick to cynically regard this assertion
as some academic pathological construct. On the contrary, I
will attempt to show in this essay that the situation
described is extremely common by providing examples
occurring in all walks of life.

     B.   Related Philosophical Dilemmas

     Some logical philosophers claim that the Voter's
Paradox is a special case of another well known peculiar
situation called the "Prisoner's Dilemma". In the Prisoner's
Dilemma, a situation is described in which rewards are in
amounts such that it would be in the long term best
interests of the participants to cooperate but the short
term best interests of an individual is to defect. That is,
if you played the game over and over and you added up
everyone's score, the total would be a maximum if everyone
cooperated all the time. Yet a logical player is presented a
payoff matrix that pays most for defection in every single
play. The situation we want to discuss here, "The Voter's
Paradox", is similar in the conflict in payoffs but
otherwise is much different from "The Prisoner's Dilemma" -
and is much more common in the real world.







II.  Definition of the Paradox













     A.   Exploring all sides of the issue

     It is the rule rather than the exception that the
contribution a person would make to some group activity will
exceed the benefit that individual might receive in return
from being a member of the group. The voting example is a
particularly good example of this phenomena in that it can
easily be shown that one vote is highly unlikely to do any
good whatsoever while there is cost to the person making the
vote (admittedly small, usually).

     The good news is that people do not always act
"rationally" - in the sense just described. In fact, most of
the time, enough people cooperate in these situations of
public good such that the collective effort does not fail.

     In this article I will try to comprehensively explore
these conflicts between the interests of the individual and
the group. I will examine the question of why, in situations
in which collective action is involved, do people cooperate
when it is often not it their best interests to do so.
Actually it is more difficult to explain why people
cooperate rather than not.

     My attempt in this essay is to define the phenomena of
the so-called "Voter's Paradox" (which I will abbreviate to
"VP" for convenience) and related phenomena as clearly as
possible. While it is recognized that the impact of the VP
on our daily lives is enormous1. the primary purpose of this
essay is to present the paradox itself in enough detail such
that the phenomena can be clearly understood and evaluated.

     When the VP is presented to most people, the typical
response is "But what if everyone did that"? Upon the most
casual examination, the question turns out to be quite
ridiculous. If everyone chose not to vote then the election
would fail. That's the answer, but it has nothing to do with
the VP.

     Let us examine the two cases:

          1. Everyone behaves as usual. Result: my
          choice to not vote has no impact.

          2. Everyone chooses not to vote. Result: my
          choice to not vote still doesn't do anything
          (Strangely, if I chose to vote, my vote might
          now be significant!)

     Is there a problem of my action of not voting
influencing others to do the same? Not very likely. It is
very difficult for the private citizen to influence others
even if he or she tried. Practically speaking, my actions in
any group large enough for anonymity, are not likely to have
any impact on what others do.



       1.   Public Vs Private Solutions2

     Many people that have the means to do so, accepting
that an individual investment into the solution to a public
problem nets a very minuscule return, take the matter in
their own hands and sponsor a private solution. For example,
if the community's public water supply is running low,
rather than contributing to the public fund, a person may
elect to put in his own pump.

       2.   The Paradox in other Dimensions

       a)   Time

     The VP can be displayed in time as well as space. For
example, in a long project in which the end date is subject
to significant variability, what difference would taking a
day off make?

     Most likely, it would make no difference at all. Most
large projects have definate break points in time for the
major milestones. If you miss the due date, the impact could
be severe. But if you are early, a day one way or the other
will make no difference in the final outcome.

     But what if I take lots of days off? There you go
again. That is still a meaningless question since we were
only talking about one day's impact on the final result.

       b)   Looking out for Future Generations

     Why should I make significant sacrifices for the
benefit of those yet to come? Even if I consume a great part
of the Earth's resources and just leave garbage and
contamination, I will likely not live to see the
consequences. It is difficult for a rational person to give
up very much for the generations that come after his or her
death.

     There is the possibility that our actions today may
spell the end of humanity. What if our selfish actions today
results in the destruction of the survival resources of the
earth? What if the war machines we build create a very high
probability that the Earth will be destroyed? Should I
sacrifice my safety and immediate financial rewards?

     Here we have a double whammy of the VP. First, will
anything I do as an individual affect what the mass of
humanity receives in rewards? No. Second will anything I do
affect future generations to come? Possibly, but I will not
be here.

     B.   The Classic Definition

     Consider a group with two or more members and a
situation in which the group as a whole would benefit from
certain actions of the individuals in the group. While it is
not necessary that the benefits be shared equally, we will
assume that all members get some portion of the benefits and
that a portion received by a member is not dependent on
his/her contribution. The contribution of the individual is
voluntary.

     Under these conditions, so common to modern society,
the payoff to the individual (share of group benefit minus
his/her cost) is usually optimum when the individual does
nothing at all!

     Further, we can assume that if all or most of the
members of the group contribute, all members of the group
would benefit more than they would if there was not
cooperation. That is, if most or all would contribute, the
return for each individual is greater than it would be if
each kept his or her contribution and proceeded alone. A
valid assumption since otherwise there would be little
reason to cooperate in the first place.

     In summary, in this classic "individuals may volunteer
but everyone benefits" scenario, it is evident that the
decision to do nothing is always the best strategy
regardless of what the rest of the group does since the
individual partakes of the benefits whether he or she
contributes or not.

     C.   The Extended Definition

     The classic definition, as described above, suffers
from the criticisms that it is too general, leaves out some
additional complicating details, and does not include real
world secondary reactions that would impact a "rational"
person's reasoning. An example of "complicating details" is
the binary nature of elections. And many will suggest that
secondary effects such as a person's reputation may
completely override such "rational" decisions to be
uncooperative.

     I will try to examine these additional details by
extending the definition in several ways.

     D.   Rational Behavior

       1.   The Rationale for being Rational

     The theme of this essay is based on the concept that a
person should be rational. Rather complex philosophical
arguments can be made that this may not always be the case.
Some would argue that ignorance is best for most of humanity
and evidence from recent history would seem to support this
in that it appears that for much of the world, the loss of
innocence seems to be closely correlated with diminished
happiness.

     These arguments lead in to philosophical morass that
any study of would be far outside of the scope of this
article. Therefore, in this essay, we will assume that it is
in the best interests of an individual to be rational.

       2.   "Rational Behavior" defined

     To make any progress in the study of this apparent
dilemma, the concept of "rational behavior" has to be
carefully defined. Unfortunately, that is extremely
difficult. Reviewing references in support of this essay
revealed that most authors avoid the subject alltogether.

     This essay places much emphasis on rational behavior.
In particular, statements are made that supporting the
group's interest over the individual's interest is most
likely not "rational". So, when we say a person acts
irrationally, what do we mean? Do we mean that the person
had good information but ignored it or that the person had
bad information,thought it was correct, and acted logically
based on that information?

     For the purposes of this analaysis, "rational behavior"
means that behavior that would actually provide a good
return for the person's contribution - based on the
currently available information whether that information is
correct or not (an action can be rational even if the
information available is faulty or erroneous). This does not
require optimality but does require that the return to the
individual be at least equal to the cost to the individual.
When there are alternate paths to take and a choice must be
made, a rational choice would be the one that would provide
the best actual return to the individual making the choice
(assuming correct information).

     It comes as no surprise that a person's perceptions
and/or a person's internal programming can cause irrational
behavior - based on the above definition.

       3.   Limited Resources and Tradeoffs

     The person having unlimited resources is a rarity. By
far, most of us are burdened by the fact that every
contribution of time and/or resource to any particular
action is at the cost to all other actions we might take
with that time and/or resource. That is, when we ponder
whether we can contribute $10 to some particular activity
that would result is some reward, a rational person must
consider the impact of the loss of that ten bucks to all
other potentially rewarding activities.

       4.   Internal Programming

     How a person reacts to the environment is determined by
that person's internal programming. For the purpose of this
analysis, that programming is considered to consist of two
categories: genes and memes. An excellent discussion on both
of these forces is contained in Dr. Dawkin's book, The
Selfish Gene3. Also, see the essay by Henson4. For our
purposes here it should be sufficient to say that "memes"
are those psychological forces that become instilled in a
person from learning and societal influences.

       5.   The Perceived Environment

     The individual must act in any situation on his or her
perception of the environment and the expected results of
whatever action might be taken. That these perceptions are
likely to be in serious error in many situations, is no
surprise to anyone. The available data is almost always
incomplete and often contaminated by others who wish to
control the individual's action. Further, the analysis of
this data by the individual is usually flawed due to the
confused and improper internal programming of the individual
making the analysis.

     Of course, people don't act on just material rewards
alone. The benefits that a person receives come in many
forms, but the most common non-material benefit is likely to
be "good feelings".

       a)   Good feelings

     The good feelings that many get from making a
contribution to the public welfare may be substantial and
may exceed the cost considerably.

          (1)  Is it a good thing?

     Many people are motivated to contribute to a group
activity if they believe that the activity is honest and
useful.

          (2)  My Reputation

     "How will I be regarded by the rest of the community
for the action I am about to take?" is a very powerful
consideration for most people. Note, however, this powerful
influence fades away when the community is large and my
actions are unknown.

       b)   The Motivating Forces behind Good Feelings

          (1)  The Programming - Genes and Memes

     The good feeling we get from doing any particular thing
comes from our programming by our genes and memes.

          (2)  The Current Environment

     The psychological environment that a person is subject
to has a great impact on the feelings that a person has
about doing or not doing a specific act. For example, in
World War II, a group of soldiers boarding a landing boat in
preparation to attack a beach, knowing that there is little
chance of survival, still do it. That is because that action
is the only acceptable action in that current environment.
But times change; in more recent wars, soldiers have refused
to fight because the pressure to do so was not so great.

          (3)  Our Perceptions

     Whether we take a particular action or not is
determined by what we believe the values of the variables in
the cost-return equation to be - not what they might
actually turn out to be. Our beliefs can change the
perceived values of these factors enormously.

     Much cooperative activity that would be deemed as
irrational if all facts were known may be still carried out
if the future result is not known for certain but only as a
probability. While a person would most likely not bother to
vote if he or she knew that the potential winner was
thousands of votes ahead and he/she was the only one left to
vote, that person would still vote if the election details
were still unknown or in the future even though there was
reliable information that one of the candidates is expected
to win by thousands of votes. For much of the population,
"as long as there is some chance" that their vote will
"count", they vote without regard for the incredibly small
probabilities involved.

     Some people apparently believe that their actions will
encourage others to do the same. This belief greatly impacts
the perceived value of the group benefit.

       c)   Ignorance ("extra rational")

     If cooperating is more beneficial to the group, but
cooperating is irrational for the individual, then ignorance
can actually be best for the group - a concept well known by
governments and religions.

     E.   Detailed Analysis

     If we hope to understand this apparent paradox, we must
examine each of its components very carefully. While the end
result appears to be paradoxical, each component, under
careful consideration, is quite straightforward.

       1.   The Net Return

     Let us define a few symbols to make the reasoning more
concise and precise.



     Let

          C  = The direct personal cost or
contribution

          BG = Benefit derived from being a member
of the group

          BI = Benefit derived directly to the
individual

          R  = Net return



     Then for any action taken,



          R = BG + BI - C



     Again, I must emphasize that the most important fact to
recognize in understanding the VP is that the components of
R can be, and usually are, quite independent. I believe that
a misunderstanding of this fact is the reason that many
people have a hard time accepting and understanding the VP.

     Further, since a person must act now on the basis of a
future return, these variables represent perceived not
actual values. Obviously, the individual acts on what he or
she perceives the costs and benefits to be, not what they
actually are. This is very significant and will be discussed
further in the following pages.

       a)   BG

     BG is the benefit to the individual derived from being
a member of the group and the result of this particular
action. BG could be a function of C but this article's
purpose is to examine the case in which it is independent or
nearly so. Societal benefits generally accrue to the
individual whether the individual makes a contribution or
not (unless no one or an insufficient number contributes).
More examples will be presented in detail later but for now
a couple will be provided to illustrate the independence.

          (1)  Community Center built from Volunteer
     Contributions

     Our community wants to build a Community Center and to
do it from contributions. I can contribute or not but in
either case I still get to use the Center. Unless, of
course, no one contributes (more precisely, the
contributions are below some minimum value), in which case
the community center will not be built.

          (2)  Volunteers save the Town by Sandbagging the
     Levee

     I may volunteer or not but in either case, my home will
be saved just like everyone else's.

       b)   BI

     BI is the benefit that the individual receives directly
from his action without regard to the group benefit. An
example follows.

          (1)  Contribution to Public Television

     A public spirited individual contributes $25 to Public
Television and receives a Viewer's guide. The guide is an
immediate and significant benefit above and independent of
the group benefits received from being able to watch the
station.

       c)   C

     C is the cost to the individual for performing a
particular action. For example, C would include the cost of
driving to the polling booth for the voter. C can be quite
small or even zero. Again, I must emphasize that BG usually
has little or no dependence on C.

     C should always be evaluated in a marginal sense. That
is, what additional return will I get for this additional
contribution? For example, a minimum contribution of $25 may
get me coverage from the local volunteer fire department -
an excellent investment. An additional $25 contribution may
provide for a very slight improvement to service but the
return on this marginal investment is very poor.

       2.   The "Holistic" effects

     An aspect of the extended VP, more common than not, is
the situation in which the return to the group exceeds the
contribution of the sum of the individuals. Of course, this
is the basis for the overwhelming desire of most responsible
citizens to have individuals contribute to the common good.
The return we get from everyone or nearly everyone voting
far exceeds the cost of the sum of the individual efforts.

     So, while group efforts can and often do result in a
return less than the investment, most reasonable group
efforts are characterized by the holistic effect, creating
the diabolical condition of the VP.



       3.   Impact of Infinite Vs Finite payoff

     Cooperative efforts can be classified into two distinct
types: those that have finite return and therefore the
return to an individual is diminished by the return given to
other individuals and those in which the return to the
individual is the same regardless of the benefits it
provides to other individuals. And example of this type of
reward would be the repair of the levee that saves the town.
That my neighbor's house is saved does not impact my benefit
of having my house saved.



     This is of significance since in the "infinite payoff"
case, freeloaders present no cost to the contributors. If
you contribute to Public Radio, it doesn't cost you anymore
if I, a non-contributor, also listen to it.



     However, whether the payoff is infinite or not does not
change the basic paradox. The contributor is still presented
with the problem that the contribution exceeds the return.



       4.   The impact of Discreet results

     Many phenomena such as elections have a result that is
binary in nature. The result is either true or false
depending on a value reaching a minimum value. A politician
is elected only if he receives a majority of the votes. This
has particular impact on the phenomena of the VP in that it
is highly unlikely that one vote will have any effect on the
outcome. In fact, the number of votes can vary over a wide
range without changing the outcome.

     This situation is best illustrated by a simple
experiment. Suppose that you had a balance scale with the
balance pans filled with marbles with a sensitivity such
that a one marble difference caused the scale indicator to
go against its stop. If an equal number of marbles is in
each pan, then the scale indicator is at center. Otherwise,
the pointer is either at the left or right stop.

     Suppose there are a few more marbles in one pan than
the other (few being more than 2). I can remove a marble
from either pan and nothing happens. Or I can transfer a
marble from one pan to the other and still nothing happens.
This example perfectly illustrates the VP for the situation
where the results are binary.

       a)   "But my vote might break the tie"

     It is difficult for people to understand what an
incredibly small chance there is of a major election ending
in a tie.5

     The probability of a tie in a state election is
infinitesimally small. And, if the election ends in a near
tie, a recount will be called for anyway! National elections
do not end in ties.

       b)   The Wasted Vote Myth

     A better understanding of the VP might put to bed the
specious argument heard so often in the last election that,
"I really would like to vote for Perot, but I realize that
my vote would be wasted (since he is not likely to get
enough votes to win) so I will vote for Clinton". This bit
of choice reasoning, apparently used by millions of voters,
likely made a major impact on the vote count in the last
election. Note the fallacies: (1) Since no particular
individual's vote will impact the election results, that
individual would receive greater satisfaction by voting
their "conscience". (2) The fact that many people considered
a vote for Perot as being wasted and therefore switched
their vote to another candidate significantly impacted the
vote count for Perot and conceivably caused him to lose. We
will never know.

  5.   The Impact of Large size with some randomness

     In the real world, randomness is the rule rather than
the exception. When the number of things in a collection is
very large, the addition or removal of one of these things
may be less than the random variation of the quantity. This
would make it undetectable.

     There are situations in which the impact of one event
is just insignificant compared to the normal random
variations. The amount of water I use to take a shower is
less than the normal variations of the volume of water in
the reservoir. Therefore, my taking of a shower,
practically, has no impact on the water situation.

       6.   A change so small it cannot be detected

     While random variations can make detection impossible
for one event, another factor is involved in the detection:
the sensitivity of the detector. Even if there was no random
variation of the water volume in the reservoir, no means of
measuring the volume is sensitive enough to detect the usage
of one shower by one individual.

     But we are not in general talking about some device
that does detection - we are talking about human beings. If
the event is not detectable by humans, then it is likely of
no practical significance. The rock star on the stage cannot
detect whether I clap or not. Most humans cannot detect if I
say "aye" or nothing in a voice vote of 50 or so people.

       7.   Impact of group size

     The Voter's Paradox seems to mostly occur when there
are large numbers of anonymous members in a group. Those two
factors -group size and anonymity - need to be examined more
carefully.

       a)   The Size of the Group

     A thoughtful person upon first examining the VP might
speculate that the paradox results from the sheer size of
the group. "My vote doesn't count because there are so many
voters, the situation makes my vote insignificant".

     So, how many votes does it take to make your vote
insignificant?

     Regardless of how small the number, your vote only
counts when there is a tie, plus or minus one vote. Consider
that there are 4 voters and you are one of them. If you did
not vote and A got 2 votes and B got 1 then your vote could
have caused a tie if you voted for B or done no good if you
voted for A. If you didn't vote at all, then A wins.
Regardless of the number of votes, this situation obviously
prevails.

       b)   Anonymity

          (1)  The Psychological Cost/Benefits

     BI, the direct benefit to the individual and C, the
cost to the individual contain components that we will call
"psychological rewards" (BIP) or punishment (CP). For most
individuals, BIP and/or CP are very powerful components in
the cost/benefit equation. In fact, the factors account for
most of the "irrational" but good behavior that civilization
depends upon to exist!

     Let's look at an example. Suppose your church wants to
add a new audio/video room that will provide free access to
educational materials. They wish to do this by means of
contributions. How do you think the results would compare
between allowing the members to contribute anonymously or to
contribute to a basket being passed while all are sitting in
their pews? I'm afraid anonymous contributions would not do
very well at all.

     Given that there are enormous social pressures to "do
the right thing", what is the effect of anonymity in the
group? It practically nullifies any "do-good" activity. If I
contribute to a cause and the contribution is anonymous,
then these psychological forces are not at play. Other
factors, particularly guilt must account for this behavior.

          (2)  Behavior and the size of the group

     The understanding that anonymity nullifies the
psychological pressures to "do the right thing", then
explains why people in small towns act in socially desirable
ways and people in big cities typically do not. As long as
most people in your group are fully aware of your actions,
you will most likely act responsibly with regard to both
personal and group activities.6

          (3)  Freeloaders

     If the logic presented so far in this essay is sound -
especially the fact that a single individual's actions are
of no consequence to the outcome and there is anonymity -
then society will most likely have a problem with "free
riders". And of course it does with enormous costs in money,
time and security.

     While some actions are more sinister than others, we
all freeload to some extent. We cheat Sears by taking back a
product for exchange or refund when we did the damage. Why
not? Sears is a big corporation and one return will not make
any difference. Besides, they don't know me from Adam. Of
course, I wouldn't even think of doing this to someone that
knows me personally.

     We cheat the insurance companies and the health plans
that our dollars collectively support.

     We take advantage of every benefit from the government
that we can whether we are justified or not.

     In the view of some, more sinister examples are the
cheating on welfare and the wasting of public funds and the
goofing off by government employees.

     Freeriding is a rational action when the "benefit-cost"
value is positive. Public programs provided by the
government, insurance companies and health plans provide
great benefits compared to the cost to the free rider.
Society can increase the cost to the potential freerider by
changing the mental make-up of the individuals or by
increased controls and punishments. It is most important to
realize that these increased costs to the freerider usually
also greatly increase the cost of the benefits to everyone
else.

     An interesting aspect of the freeloader phenomena is
that the freeloader can not exist without the contributions
of those who do not freeload. The hippie living on welfare
and using the public medical facilities depends on the
existence of the straight people that they hold in contempt.
That is, "without the host, the parasite dies".

       8.   But what if everyone did that?

     When most people hear the argument for the VP the first
time, the most common reaction is, "But what if everyone did
that?". Obviously, if everyone declined to vote, democracy
would fail. Still the argument is specious. The impact of
"everyone doing it" would radically change the analysis of
any logical discussion. What if everyone decided to withdrew
their money from the bank? What if everyone decided to quit
buying new cars? What if everyone decided to not go to work
tomorrow? What if everyone decided to read this article?

     Thousands of examples can be given in which a certain
action is harmless when committed by you and me but becomes
a disaster if "everyone does it". Like I said, a specious
argument.

     Consider another case: let us say the Red Cross
broadcasts a mass appeal for more blood as a result of needs
coming from some disaster. What if you didn't feel quite up
to giving blood at this time? Would their appeal fail? Of
course not. But what if everyone followed your example?

     While most people clearly understand the above
arguments for the cases presented, they seem to have
difficulty understanding the ramifications of other problems
that are characterized by the same phenomena - the classic
example being voting in a national election. Your vote in a
national election has even less impact on the results of
that election than the sale of one share of IBM stock would
have on the price of IBM stock! And far less impact than
your withholding of a pint of blood from the Red Cross.







III. Examples















     A.   Cutting off my nose to spite my face

     Should I refuse to buy shoes made in China that I can
get much cheaper than USA manufactured shoes even though I
dislike China's human rights policy? Should I avoid buying
Willie Nelson's albums because he is an alleged tax cheat
even though I really like his music? Should I avoid buying
products at Walmart's, that save me a lot of money, because
some clerk got nasty with me once?

     To take any of these actions causes me to lose the
direct and substantial benefits while having no significant
impact on the problems I dislike.

     I will keep buying Willie's albums.







IV.  Ramifications













     What are the consequences of the VP? How does it impact
our daily lives? The impact is enormous.

     A.   Crime

     If you have followed the above arguments and accept the
logic, you should have no problem accepting the conclusion
that most crime is a result of the VP as defined in this
essay. That is, crime is usually committed based on the
individual's assessment that the benefit will exceed the
cost. It would seem reasonable that crime will increase if
either the benefit is increased or the cost is decreased.
Most likely, the large increase in crime our society is now
experiencing is a result of the decrease in cost to the
criminal. Some examples of the decreased cost are:

       1.   Social acceptability of criminal activity

     In the last few decades, in many communities, crime has
become more socially acceptable - even "cool". As we have
discussed earlier, social psychological pressures are very
powerful (enough to cause a person to sacrifice their life
rather than be seen as a coward, for instance). This
psychological good feeling of being looked up to by the
individual's peers far outweighs the potential future
destruction to the community that all will suffer from -
including the perpetrator.

       2.   Decrease in expected punishment

       3.   Reduced expectation of actually being punished

     B.   Sex

     Socially unacceptable sexual activity is on the
increase in spite of the widening of the definition of what
is acceptable. In particular, sexual activity by the young
and others in which the results present a burden to society
are on the increase. Much of this is a result of the VP
phenomena.

     C.   Politics

     Politicians generally do what is in their own best
interests with often disastrous impacts on society in
general - even though they are a member of that society.


     D.   Government

     Government burden and suppression of individual rights
continues to increase since it benefits a few. Yet, we all
suffer from these infringements, including those that
benefit from it. Unfortunately, their direct reward exceeds
their losses from being a member of society.







V.   Ways to Remove the Paradox













     A.   Directly tying the return to the cost

     The paradox goes away when a person is directly
rewarded or punished by their actions. For example, if a
device was placed on the water meter that would report any
use of the water during the times such use is prohibited,
then that individual could be punished.

     B.   Small Groups

     As discussed above, we have few problems with the
freerider aspect of the VP when everyone in the group knows
each other.

     C.   Coercion and other outside inducements

       1.   Using the Government to do your dirty work

     Most activist groups use the government to enforce
cooperation when it is obvious that voluntary cooperation
will not do the job.

       a)   Environmental Groups

     Environmental groups know that there is little chance
of successful environmental voluntary action by the
population due to the problem of the VP. So they have the
government enforce their philosophy.

       b)   Funding of the arts

     Those that would provide culture to the masses know
that the masses would not support this by any voluntary
sacrifice. So they use the force of law to give the masses
what they "need".







VI.  Summary













     In this article, the phenomena of the so-called
"Voter's Paradox" has been examined in detail. There are two
major aspects to this paradox, both of which present
enormous difficulties for a society based on social
interaction. First there is the problem that it seems to be
quite evident that certain scenarios requiring the
cooperation of all or most of the individuals in a group
would provide benefits for everyone far in excess of what
they would be able to do privately. Good examples are
elections, roads, water supplies, river levees and other
large investments. Yet, at the same time, it is obvious that
for a particular individual, his or her maximum return is
obtained by making no contribution - that is, freeriding.
For example, if the levee could possibly break, the
individual would be best served by not contributing to the
sandbagging at the main levee but instead working on
defenses around his own home.

     The second major component of the "Voter's Paradox" is
that the contribution of the individual in large groups may
be absolutely or practically of no significance. On a
national election, one vote cannot possibly determine the
outcome of the election. If the levee broke because it was
shy 100 sandbags and I could only do 50, then my effort was
useless. If it didn't break because it had at least 50 more
than it needed, my contribution was useless.

     A.   Societal Problems resulting from the VP

     Most of the major problems facing large societies can
be traced to the VP. Massive non-cooperation results in a
breakdown of many group activities that would be useful. The
massive growth of the welfare roles, crime, government
spending, government waste, and etc. are examples of
individuals maximizing their own return at the expense of
the group. The paradox is that they are acting rationally!

     Solutions to these problems are difficult but possible.
However, solutions are beyond the scope of this article
which is devoted to explaining the theory of the paradox.

     B.   Many do cooperate and that is enough for success
in many situations

     That society functions at all is a testimony to the
fact that a large part of society does "cooperate".
According to Hardin7, some experimental data indicates that
about one half of the participants cooperate. I suspect that
more cooperated in the past and less will in the future.

     Another dilemma for society is that people are more
likely to cooperate and not do what is in their personal
best interest if they are ignorant and/or living lives
controlled by myths. An educated person is more likely to be
cognizant of the tradeoffs between self interest and group
interest.

     Fortunately, it does not require 100 percent
cooperation for most group efforts to succeed. Many public
projects function with only a small percentage contributing.
Voting is a good example.

     Success can also be achieved for group activities that
would fail if based on voluntary cooperation by invoking the
force of law. Environment groups have made much use of this
approach.







VII. References








Hardin, Garrett, "The Tragedy of the Commons", Science,

162:1243-1248, 1968







Hardin, Russell, Collective Action, Johns Hopkins University

Press, Baltimore, 1982.







Dawkins, Richard; The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1976.







Axelrod, Robert; The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books,

New York, 1984.







Glance, Natalie and Huberman, Bernardo; Dynamics of social

dilemmas. Scientific American. March, 1994







Diekmann, Andreas and Mitter, Petter, Editors; Paradoxical

Effects of Social Behavior - Essays in Honor of Anatol

Rapoport. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986.







Poundstone, William; Prisoner's Dilemma.Doubleday, New York,

1992







Glance, Natalie S.; Dynamics with Expectations , Doctoral

Dissertation at Stanford University, June 1993. This paper

and others related are located at the Internet site,

parc.xerox.com.



_______________________________

     1A discussion on the impact of the VP on society will

be contained in another paper by this author, now in

preparation.

     2Hardin, Russell; Collective Action, John Hopkins

University Press, Baltimore, 1982,  Page 75

     3Dawkins, Richard; The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1976.

     4Henson, H. Keith; "Memes Meta-Memes and Politics", (An

article available on the Internet. Use Archie to find.)

     5Hardin, Russell, Page 60

     6There are several papers located at the Internet site,

parc.xerox.com by Dr. Benardo Huberman and Dr. Natalie

Glance that discuss the effect of keeping organizational

size small to improve cooperation.

     7Hardin, Russell, Page 29



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  [132]  The House Of The Criminally Insane           The GNN            10k
  [133]  The Twelve Miscellaneous Facts About Life    The Chief           9k
  [134]  The Last Night Of The World                  The GNN             9k
  [135]  Death Is Rotten                              Ralph 124C41+       7k
  [136]  Live On Stage Again: Messiah!                The GNN             8k
  [137]  uXu Index #12                                The Chief          28k
  [138]  The Last Frontier                            The GNN             7k
  [139]  Letters To The State                         Anon. Contributors 10k
  [140]  The Killing Truth                            The GNN             6k
  [141]  uXu Lyrics: Curve - Radio Sessions           The Chief          11k
  [142]  The Lynch Mob                                The GNN             9k
  [143]  Prometheus Symptom                           The GNN             8k
  [144]  Vengeance!                                   Hedge               6k
  [145]  Rage!                                        The GNN             7k
  [146]  The Power                                    The GNN             2k
  [147]  uXu Index #13                                The Chief          29k
  [148]  Technophilia                                 Ikonoklast        288k
  [149]  The Art Of Weirdness                         Bob Slack           6k
  [150]  Declare War!                                 The GNN             7k
  [151]  Hackers Against The Govt's New World Order   FreeStyle          20k
  [152]  Settle For Nothing                           The Chief          11k
  [153]  A Day For Tired People                       The GNN             8k
  [154]  Suicidal Maniac's Shitty File                Suicidal Maniac    10k
  [155]  Ripmax Top Tenners                           Ripmax              9k
  [156]  The Sad Part Of Raping                       Hedge               5k
  [157]  uXu Lyrics: Slowdive - Souvlaki              The Chief           9k
  [158]  Exciting Life                                The GNN             6k
  [159]  Advanced Phreaking Using Cordless Phones     FreeStyle          20k
  [160]  uXu Index #14                                The Chief          33k
  [161]  An Amazing Christmas Tale                    The GNN             8k
  [162]  The Man Behind                               The GNN             8k
  [163]  Bob - The Serial Killer                      The GNN            10k
  [164]  How To Make a Bomb!                          The GNN             7k
  [165]  We Love You, Pigs!                           The Chief           8k
  [166]  Interrogation                                The GNN             8k
  [167]  Red Team                                     The GNN             8k
  [168]  10 Ways To Cause Havoc in Public Toilets     BLaZe               3k
  [169]  The Stand                                    The GNN             8k
  [170]  A Theory of Justice - The Game Show          The GNN             7k
  [171]  Five Stories From The Metaphysical Workshop  The GNN            12k
  [172]  uXu Index #15                                The Chief          34k
  [173]  The Eternal Machine                          The GNN             6k
  [174]  We Are The Robots                            Hedge               8k
  [175]  Clean Shaven Beauty III                      Ralph 124C41+       4k
  [176]  Operation Moon Sucker                        The GNN             9k
  [177]  Get Free Stuph and Kill People!!!!!          Basehead            6k
  [178]  How To Talk With ET's Without Being...       Budha & Greg Iloyd  4k
  [179]  The Unpaid Workers of Politics               Hedge               7k
  [180]  Wild West                                    The GNN             9k
  [181]  Castle Chronicles The Sequel - Chapter Three The Chief          11k
  [182]  Who Knows?                                   The GNN            10k
  [183]  uXu Index #16                                The Chief          35k
  [184]  The GNN's File #100                          The GNN            16k
  [185]  How To Avoid Letter-Bombs                    Ralph 124C41+       5k
  [186]  Lock-Picking Using The "Lock Clicker"        The GNN             8k
  [187]  Two-Two-Six-Eight                            Phearless          17k
  [188]  The Fanatic Hunter                           The GNN            11k
  [189]  Methods For Creating A Paranoid Lifestyle    Hedge & The GNN     8k
  [190]  Gas Station                                  The GNN            13k
  [191]  How To Get... Older Women Part III           The Chief          11k
  [192]  Final Discovery                              The GNN             4k
  [193]  Morality?                                    Das Model           5k
  [194]  City Of Slaves                               The GNN             7k
  [195]  The City                                     Hedge               6k
  [196]  The Good Life                                The GNN             8k
  [197]  Ripmax Top Tenners #2                        Ripmax              5k
  [198]  Cybernetic Escape Route                      The GNN             6k
  [199]  Learn To Love Big Brother                    The GNN             8k
  [200]  uXu Does Town 1994                           All But Hedge      22k
  [201]  Reincarnation, Inc.                          The GNN            13k
  [202]  Time Traveller's Guide - An Introduction     Phearless          62k
  [203]  Practical Redress                            The GNN            25k
  [204]  uXu Index #17                                The Chief          39k
* [205]  Big Bang Phil                                The GNN             7k
* [206]  The Nightfly                                 The GNN            22k
* [207]  Review: 'Bolero' by Jordan Lee               Dee P Binggeli     13k
* [208]  What To Say                                  The GNN             5k
* [209]  Speech For The Defence                       The GNN             7k
* [210]  How To Avoid Getting Hangover                McCoy               5k
* [211]  Three Rendez-vous With The Men Of Power      The GNN            10k
* [212]  Population X                                 The GNN             9k
* [213]  Poetry Collection 1                          Bob Slack           5k
* [214]  Poetry Collection 2                          Bob Slack           7k
* [215]  Poetry Collection 3                          Bob Slack           8k
* [216]  Fuck You, Stefan Kronqvist                   The GNN             7k
* [217]  Psycho(logical)scope                         Phearless           9k
* [218]  Everything You Need To Know About Techno     Ralph 123C41+       8k
* [219]  The Voter's Paradox                          Leon Felkins       47k
* [220]  uXu Index #18                                Phearless/The GNN  39k
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          I N D E X  -  Swedish Releases 00 - 11   [August 1994]


   No   Title                                          Author         Size
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  [01]  VaktB, Bestmmelser fr Vaktpersonal           Phearless        32k
  [02]  Dial-a-Nerd                                    Phearless        14k
  [03]  Vattenfall, Dataskerhet & Virushysteri?       The Chief        22k
  [04]  Elaka & Roliga Trix i Unix                     Rubicon           6k
  [05]  Analys av Rda Arm Fraktionens Politiska Ml  The GNN          22k
  [06]  Historier ur en Sjuk Hjrna                    Ajo              10k
  [07]  Historier ur en Sjuk Hjrna II - The Return    Ajo               7k
  [08]  Fandboken v0.92                                Ahrvid Engholm  563k
  [09]  Avlivaren                                      Robert Andersson  5k
  [10]  Kemi Fr Alla                                  Brainiac         17k
  [11]  Vgen Ut v0.94                                 The GNN         132k
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       I N D E X  -  Den Svenska Rapporten (DSR) Swedish   [August 1994]

                    [Swedish Computer/Hacking/Telecom News]

                     No           Release Date        Size
                    ---------------------------------------
                    [01]          Sep 18, 1991          27k
                    [02]          Oct 28, 1991          45k
                    [03]          Mar 31, 1992          23k
                    [04]          Apr 30, 1992          28k
                    [05]          May 31, 1992          97k
                    [06]          Jun 30, 1992         133k
                    [07]          Jul 31, 1992         133k
                    [08-10]       Oct 31, 1992          61k
                    [11]          Nov 30, 1992          78k
                    [12]          Jan 22, 1993         109k
                    [13]          Feb 28, 1993          74k
                    [14]          Mar 31, 1993          75k

*                 Now working on No.15! Send in your articles!
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*                           uXu - Description Index
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April  August  April  August  April  August  April  August Releases 1994:

205: "Big Bang Phil" by The GNN. Chemistry class was always fun. The fear
in the teacher's eyes combined with the smell of something burning, how
we laughed. This Phil guy is one who prefer practical experiments to
theoretical.

206: "The Nightfly" by The GNN. Futuristic view on censorship in the
extreme. This little night talker has other things to worry about than
losing his air license. Feed your mind with these brand new bytes of art.

207: "Review: 'Bolero' by Jordan Lee" by Dee Philipp Binggeli. Our new
writer, the multimedia enthusiast Dee P Binggeli, manage to catch jazz
guitarist for a chat. This file contains a fresh interview with Jordan
Dee himself and a review of his latest album 'Bolero'. A must for fans
and music addicts.

208: "What To Say" by The GNN. Here it is. For people that never seem to
end a conversation the right way. Here's how to end one, quick and with
the usual smile guarantee. Prepare yourself for the next battle, as it
will come to you eventually.

209: "Speech For The Defence" by The GNN. Hell, one day you might be there
yourself. You never know, suddenly you _will_ realize that things are not
what they appear to be. Of course you only need to prove it. To yourself,
and to everyone else.

210: "How To Avoid Getting Hangover" by McCoy. Does the room spin when
you wake up and do you experience the sensation of being more thirsty
than the big bad wolf? Do you spend more than one hour trying to get out
of bed, just to step into your own vomit? Then do not worry! Crawl to
your computer, turn it on, and carefully read this file and you will
probably survive the day. Probably.

211: "Three Rendez-vous With The Men Of Power" by The GNN. Psychological
hardcore thriller by the most flexible writer we have in our staff. Easy
to read - hard to understand - very tough to believe. As always, it is
up to the reader what is to be taken seriously or not.

212: "Population X" by The GNN. Just because you can't see things doesn't
prove they are non-existant. Just because you can't believe in something
doesn't prove it isn't true. If something exists, does that prove that
it's real?

213: "Poetry Collection 1" by Bob Slack. Bob Slack returns after a while
of silence with this collection of poetry that mixes humble views at
the present situation with powerful explosions of anger.

214: "Poetry Collection 2" by Bob Slack. Some people say that poetry is
boring and a waste of time. Well, read these nine poems from our poetry-
meister and I can assure that you will change your mind.

215: "Poetry Collection 3" by Bob Slack. Love is always a good source
for inspiration. Luckily for us, Bob Slack recently stumbled over Karen,
who obviously is a real cutie pie, since he spoils us with yet another
bunch of poetry! Enjoy.

216: "Fuck You, Stefan Kronqvist" by The GNN. Personal opinions, or the
opinions of an entire generation? Do you know who Your "Stefan Kronqvist"
is? He will get to you, in one way or the other - and leave with or without
your mind, knowledge and perhaps even your life.

217: "Psycho(logical)scope" by Phearless. Who are you? What will you
become? From the basic facts you know about yourself, this file will
rape your mind and blow your top until it leaves you with the rational
understanding about yourself. Yes, the truth hurts.

218: "Everything You Need To Know About Techno" by Ralph 124C41+. The
fact remains: being a techno-fan is not easy at all. You must educate
yourself unless you want to make a fool of yourself in public. This file
will help you. Should be read while listening to anything that goes at
200 bpm or more.

219: "The Voter's Paradox" by Leon Falkins. How many of your decisions
in your life were made upon what You know and what You feel? Are you sure?
Think again. This is definitely recommended reading for the hungry.

220: "uXu Index #18" by Phearless & The GNN. The Chief: We didn't plan it
this way! Most people like organized and formatted collections. I know that,
because I'm a collector myself. Therefore, we made the index files as a part
of each release, with statistics, updates and descriptions. For those who
want this sort of stuff. For the collector, and for the reader. Nice to see
some of you actually reading this right now. Well, I can tell you it's about
time to get this show on the road, so I'll leave you with some more stuff
you already know about:

          - An introduction about current events by The Chief.
          - Updated Writer and Support Board Lists.
          - An updated uXu Hall of Thanks and Honorary Member List.
          - An updated list of all uXu files in Short format.
          - In-depth descriptions of the new files.
          - An updated list of places where to contact uXu.

      [#220 also includes an Index for the uXu-S and DSR series]

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  CLU 'puternet             [515]-232-7631   [v32b] (uXu US Outlet)
* The Crime Scene           [516]-873-8903   [14.4] (uXu US Outlet)
  The Alliance              [612]-251-8596   [16.8] (uXu US Outlet)
* Digital Anarchy           [703]-758-0950   [14.4] (uXu US Outlet)
  Metalland Southwest       [713]-468-5802   [v32b] (uXu US Outlet)
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  Piracetam                 [813]-996-3902   [v32b] (uXu US Outlet)
  LHD                      [818]-546-2332   [14.4] (uXu US Outlet)



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  The Truth Sayer's Domain  [210]  6pm-12mid CST
  Lunatic Labs              [213]  Sometimes
* The Metaphysical Workshop [317]  Down 'n Gone
* Channel Zero              [410]  Down 'n Gone

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                              "THE NIGHTFLY"
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu




  He  left  the secure ground at 2300 hours and headed for deep space.  His
space  ship  was  very  tight  due  to  the  fact  that  almost  the entire
two-passenger  cabin  was  as usual filled to the limit with his equipment.
The  planet  behind  him  became  smaller and smaller as he roared past the
moon.   A  pencil headed for the ceiling and he understood that he had left
the gravity zone.
  He checked the map and set the auto pilot for the neutral zone.  A police
robot  swept  past  him  and checked his passport.  No problems.  He leaned
back  in  the  seat  and watched the distant suns in front of him.  He knew
that  he  would  never  ever  make it so far, but that did not matter.  His
voice would soon be all over the universe and that was enough for him.
  The  engines suddenly stopped.  A few minutes later, the ship stood still
in  the  middle  of space.  He checked the map again and discovered that he
was  in the first sector of the neutral zone.  Excellent.  Time to rock and
roll.
  He  opened up his air compartments and heard the familiar sound of oxygen
being  pumped  into the cockpit.  He removed his helmet a couple of minutes
later  and  took  a deep breath.  He hummed on a little tune as his fingers
danced around on several buttons.  When he was almost done he hesitated for
a  while  before he pushed the final button.  A buzzing sound was heard and
the  gigantic  antenna on the roof was extended.  Everything had worked out
fine.   He  pulled  down  the  microphone  from  the roof and turned on his
computer terminal.  A few commands and his cabin drowned in soft music.
  The Nightfly was on the air.
  "The  time  is  2400  hours  central  european Earth time and this is the
Nightfly  speaking  to you from the solar system's neutral zone!  I will be
here  for  six  hours to entertain you, so do not leave!  But first, let us
listen to the latest hit from the Alpha Centauri Camp."


  kill, maim, destroy
  we love to do it
  we do it all the time
  it is fun
  real fun
  kill, kill, kill                                                (I)


  The  music  was  really  hardcore  -  the only thing that could be heard,
except for the violent song, was magnificent heavy drums that could kill an
elephant  together with some strange bleeping sounds.  The Nightfly did not
actually  like  the music, but he had to play it anyway to amuse some other
parts  of  the  universe.  The Alpha Centauri Camp had complained about him
never  playing  the kind of music they listened too.  He seldom cared about
what  other  creatures  on  other planets liked to hear since there existed
enough styles of music to keep him busy for several decades.
  When  the  tune  was  finished,  he  leaned  forward  and  spoke into the
microphone.
  "Time  for  Nightfly Facts!  There are three steps in human understanding
of  his own life!  The first step; The Mob Step.  Life is work.  The second
step;   The   agony  step.   Life  must  be  more  than  just  work.   This
understanding  leaves  the  human in pain, since she cannot understand what
the  meaning  of  life  is.   The third (and final) step; The understanding
step.   Life  is  work for most people, but one just have to play the game,
eat  the  cake  and  suck  out the fun of life before it is too late!  (*).
Cool  ey?  And now; the peoples corner is open!  Call and let your voice be
heard all over the universe!  The number is..."
  Then he turned on some new music.  This time he played some Marsian dance
music that was actually quite enjoyable.


  whatever you do
  and whatever you are
  you can always go
  to Mars and dance
  gravitation is cool
  the men are proud
  and the women are hot
  so come to Mars and dance                                        (II)


  "We  have  a  caller!  It is Mike from the Sun of Freedom Republic!  What
have  got  to say Mike to the people and the creatures and the souls of our
universe?"
  Mike  was a creature that did not speak with sounds.  Therefor, he used a
phone  that  translated  his  leg movements into sounds, which ended up his
voice rather metallic.
  "I like music.  I like the Nightfly.  I like to listen to the Nightfly."
  "Thanks  Mike!  Say, what do you think about the new racist movement that
have emerged from nowhere on your planet?"
  "Stupid.  Uneducated."
  "You  are right about that, Mike.  Now we have Michelle from Earth on the
line!"
  A young female voice came to life.
  "Hi, Nighty!  I love you!  I want you!  I want to make lo..."
  Click.
  "Thanks Michelle!  Now for some more music."
  He  played  some funky Phobos music and thought about how many calls from
weirdos he had received during the two years he had been transmitting.


  yeah yeah yeah yeah
  yeah yeah yeah yeah
  Phobos says yeah
  yeah yeah yeah


  While  the music played the Nightfly lighted a cigarette.  He watched the
grey  smoke  and  sighed.   Even tough he really enjoyed his hobby he still
could  not  relax properly when on the air.  No one knew who he was, no one
had  ever seen him.  He was the only Nightfly, the criminal dude who once a
week  gave  the  universe  what  they wanted to listen to.  What he did was
illegal, but since he was in a neutral zone no one could really arrest him.
Yet.   It  was  just  a  question of time before the governments united and
decided to invent some new law that would lead to his arrest, he thought.
  A  sudden  anger  made him lower the volume in the middle of the tune and
scream:  "Free radio!  We need more stations like mine!  Revolution!"
  The tune continued and he felt free.  He knew that he was privileged.


  Phobos says yeah
  yeah yeah yeah...                                                (III)


  "...  and Nightfly says yeah too!"
  Very  few  people  had  the  money and the knowledge about how to open up
their personal radio station.  The Nightfly had used parts of a inheritance
to  buy  the  necessary  equipment for his station.  He loved it, and would
keep on playing music and talking bullshit for long as he lived.
  "Want to hear the latest gossip folks?  Heh heh...  you know the infamous
police  man  Stephen Crownbranch who dedicated his life to nail all hackers
and  virus  makers around the universe?  You know, just after he had busted
three  members  of the Galactic Hackers Association he suddenly disappeared
from  the  law  force.   No one know where he is.  But I know!  The guys in
G.H.A told him that they were going to get him and sure they did.  But they
struck back in a completely unexpected way.  They did not hack his computer
not  did they send him some killing computer virus.  They did not empty his
bank  account  nor  did  they  spread  any  filthy rumors about him via the
networks.   Poor  old  Stephen had fifty computer experts who helped him to
feel  secure.   So I guess he felt rather surprised when the guys in G.H.A,
the  little  nerds  with glasses and bad breathes, showed up with a handgun
and  blew  his  brain away with two rounds of hot steel.  Yep, murdered him
for  real,  not electronically.  Way to go, G.H.A.  Hackers are heroes.  No
doubts about that, I can assure you!  So!  It is time to rock this universe
with  a  political  discussion!   Tonight's  topic  will be; why do the mad
dictator  Clex Mankler keep on living?  Should someone zap him to dust with
a  laser  cannon  or  is  economical  aid  to  the rebels be enough?  Music
maestro!  The Killing Game by Force Crew;"


  he was a dare devil
  he was a mercenary
  never had a good life
  only knew how to shoot
  I tell you this
  do not mess with the
  mercenary man
  from the stars                                                   (IV)


  "Speak Yggrasil!"
  "First of all, I would like to thank the Nightfly for his great work!"
  "Thanks..."
  "About Clex Mankler...  Yes!  I think someone ought to blow away a couple
of  his  heads!   That  piece of selfish shit have ruined the lives of many
poor  inhabitants  on Planet Q!  I cannot understand why no one shoots him!
Personally, I would use a Magma Three and stick it up his..."
  "Er...   what do you think about the fact that he will be able to vote in
the next Galactic Meeting on Phobos?"
  "It sucks!  It is outrageous!  He is a madman!"
  The Nightfly disconnected his caller.
  "Thanks  Yggrasil!   I am sure that you are not the only one to have that
kind  of  feelings!  Speaking about madmen, last week a young man in a city
called Phalun on planet Earth savagely killed seven people with a automatic
weapon (**).  I guess no one missed that.  Apparently his mind snapped when
his  girl friend told him to fuck off or something..  well, I do not really
know  the details behind his great rage.  The man was a officer in the army
and  could  easily  lay  his  hands on several weapons that he used for his
personal  retaliation.  I could say something about how awful it is that no
one stopped him in time or I could demand the army to keep their weapons in
a  safer  place in the future.  But I will not do that.  I mean, why should
I?   The  young  man  who killed seven people ought to be treated as a hero
down on Earth.  Because he showed the world that they have a good army with
people  who  knows  how to do the work.  Why do they keep on saying that he
killed  seven 'innocent people'?  He was employed by the army.  His work is
to learn people to kill, main and 'protect' the country from 'enemies'.
  I  never  forget  the  face of one guy who claimed that he felt bad about
what had happened.  He was dressed in army clothes and had his family close
to  him  when  the  media  interviewed  him.   He  wanted to go home.  This
pathetic guy really pissed me off.  He also worked for the army, as the man
who  murdered  seven people did.  So why did he feel bad?  Why?  The killer
just  showed  the  world  that their weapons works perfect, that their fine
automatic  weapons  can  kill  and maim people.  That is what they are for.
So,  this  guy  who  'felt  bad and wanted to home' I just want to know the
following  facts;  when  your department of justice decides that it is time
for  war  you must kill and maim people anyway.  You will have to kill more
than  seven  people  to  survive,  I  tell  you  that.   So use this golden
opportunity  to  learn how that will feel.  You will not have the slightest
chance  to 'feel bad' and 'go home' then.  You must kill, you must use your
weapon to blow other peoples body parts away.  Get used to it.
  "Now, a short break for the one o'clock news."


  Welcome to Galactic News.  My name is Jon Andersson.
  Today, the president of the United States on planet Earth decided to wipe
out  the  Freedom  Colony  on the first moon.  Many people are disappointed
with  the  president  and  says  that  he  should  not  have  used military
force...blah  blah.   Alpha  Centauri  suffers  from  one of the worst fire
storms  in  history.   The  reason  seems  to  be the increasing numbers of
smokers...blah   blah.   Promixia  Delta  has  been  sucked  into  a  black
hole...blah  blah.   Another war...blah blah.  Yet another war...blah blah.
The results from the Space Race...blah blah The weather...blah blah
  Good night or good morning, depending on where you are...


  "I am the Nightfly, and you are listening to me!  Now..."
  A  loud  crash  could  be  heard.   He  froze.   Something  had happened.
Quickly,  he  brought  up the status screen and discovered that an asteroid
had broken one of his wheels.  He cursed himself for forgetting to pull the
wheels  up  when he had left the planet.  But the damage was not especially
serious.  He just had to land very carefully when he got back.
  "Sorry  about  this little break.  I just discovered that a bunch of kids
tried  to  steal my purse.  Ha ha ha...  You know what?  This world must be
destroyed.   We have lost all our feelings for the human race, the creature
race  and the soul manager race.  All cultures that I know do only want one
thing.   Money  and material.  What happened to the old days, the so-called
'dark  ages', when God was divine and humble people believed that they were
only  a  small  part  of a complex but rational order?  It vanished and was
replaced  with  a  thirst  for  personal benefit.  No one cares about other
people,  the  only  thing  that  matters is the success and the short cuts.
Start  the  body count.  Sure, I am a cynic.  This world must be destroyed.
Now for the number one hit!  Kiss My Oxygen Tank with the Plausible Heroes!
Hit 'em boys!"


  kiss my steel tank and feel the air
  sweep through your lungs
  you know I care
  baby, I do not want you to suffocate
  I love you more than the sun
  so come on
  kiss my steel tank                                                 (V)


  His  phone  rang and he picked it up from the other seat.  A female voice
spoke to him with a soft voice.
  "Hi  Nightfly.   I  would  like to talk about that Clex Mankler dude.  It
that okay?  My name is Cath by the way."
  "Of course!" he answered.  "Hold on a while."
  He turned off the music and grabbed the microphone.
  "Now  we got Cath from...  uh...  somewhere!  Let us hear what you got to
say to the public Cath!"
  "About  this  Clex fella...  uh...  I think he really is an idiot.  And..
uh..  uh..."
  He had to help her.
  "Is there something special you dislike with him?"
  "Yes!   Uh...   he  is SO GOD DAMN UGLY!  HE LOOKS LIKE A GOD DAMN PRICK!
FUCK HIM!  IF I HAD THE CHANCE I WOULD FOR SURE..."
  "Thanks  Cath.   But  do  remember that we have the freedom of speech, so
just watch what you say."
  Click.
  "You  are still listening to the Nightfly.  People, when I sit here in my
ship  I  feel rather lonely, let me tell you that.  I can see the twinkling
stars  and  the planets, but they are so far away from me that it is almost
hard  to  believe.   And  when I look at the planets from a closer distance
with  the  zoom-scope I feel the same feeling.  Because I cannot see people
unless I land on a planet, and the lack of people makes a man feel alone.
  But  when  I  look  at the planets I notice something else.  They look so
peaceful  and  comfortable  from  a  long range distance.  I cannot see any
people, I cannot see any wars.  I cannot hear political discussions nor can
I  see  violence  and misery.  I can only see the huge terrestial body that
floats  around  in  space.   I cannot see people.  The ones responsible for
everything  bad  are  people.   People  never  do  anything good, they just
destroy  what  is  in their way.  I am a part of those people, I know that.
So, sometimes I love this feeling of being alone in space.
  I like to sir here alone and watch the planets and the stars.  Everything
looks so beautiful from here."
  He paused for a while before he continued.
  "Now  I think it is time to talk about personal relations!  Call Nightfly
if  you  got  any  problems  with  life, love or whatever!  I will be right
back!"


  robot love
  electrical thoughts
  mechanic feeling
  lick the steel
  proton power
  neutron dance                                                     (VI)


  "That was Raven Family from planet Earth with the tune 'Does not somebody
want  to  be  wanted'.   Not very intelligent tune, but good if you want to
dance!   Something  that  bugs  me is that it is told by many that space is
endless.  Because if it were not endless, there must be a wall or something
at  the  end  of  the  universe.  And what would be behind that wall?  More
space.  Hence, space must be endless.
  Personally,  I  do  not  think that space is endless.  Because if it were
endless,  where  would  it end?  Where should we place the last gas station
before  we  put  up  the sign 'Here begins the endless space.  Have you got
enough gasoline?'
  Now I would like to welcome Ralph from Bay City on Planet XI.  What would
you like to talk about Ralph?"
  "Well,  you see...  I have a girl friend from another planet.  Planet XII
to  be  precise.   And with this new law that forbids youngsters from other
planets to make love to people from here...  well..."
  "I see!  So you are not able to meet each other any more?"
  "No.  I cannot even travel to that planet any more."
  "Let  me tell you this Ralph; shout for revolution, get guns and blow the
suckers away who invented this law!"
  "Right!  You got it!  Thanks and good bye, Nighty!"
  Click.
  "Oh,  did  it  not  feel  nice  to  be  the  spark  that  lighted another
revolutionary  fire?   I  tell  you  this  people; actions talks - bullshit
rules.   We  have to work for what we want.  But work does not only have to
be physical action, it can be everything from words on paper to brief chats
in  the  middle  of the night.  Of course, oppressed people have little use
for  big  mouths that cannot reveal anything particular about the problems,
but  those who got the talent to speak...  speak!  Now for the next caller!
We got Hegel from Earth!  Speak!"
  "Hello, it is nice to..."
  The  voice  suddenly  disappeared.   Buzz.   Nightfly  knocked  the phone
against  the  dashboard in a try to get Hegel back.  A voice came back, but
it was not the one who called himself Hegel.  Someone had connected himself
to his phone line.  Someone special.
  "Listen  Nightfly!  This is commander Lick, chief commander on the Queens
primary destroyer, who speaks!  We are close to you and do you know what we
will do?"
  The Nightfly sighed and lighted another cigarette.
  "Say hello?  Buy me some candy?  How should I know?"
  "We are going to blow you into nothing you criminal!  We..."
  "Sorry, but you cannot do that.  I am in a neutral zone and..."
  "Not  any  more!  The government on planet Earth decided to move the zone
six  blocks away!  So if you do not find a way to move to that area in less
than three minutes, you are history!  Pirate radio station!  (Belch) We are
going to get you!"
  Smart  move,  really  smart  move.   Nightfly  hung  up and turned on his
engines  immediately.   He did not know if the guy was lying or not, but he
did  not  want  to  find  out.   Quickly  he  accelerated  into space.  The
cigarette  between his lips jumped out of his mouth due to the sudden speed
and  landed  on the floor.  Nightfly desperately reached for it and did not
see  that  he  actually headed for a well-known black hole.  When he raised
his head he discovered the hole, but it was way too late and he was


  sucked in
  into the black hole
  do be do be do be do                                              (VII)


  'The Nightfly is gone' by Section Z.
  However,  sometimes  young  and  old  people  still  lean back into their
chairs,  gathers giggling around radios, happily turn on receivers in their
cars  or  space  crafts,  and  enjoys a night of truths and galactic music.
Because some people still claim that if you aim your antenna at the Seventh
Heaven  black hole and tune your radio to a certain frequency you will hear
the familiar and beloved voice again.
  "I am the Nightfly and you are listening to me!"


                       ----------------------------

(I)  'Destroyer, The'.  (c) 2132 - Bangle Boys.
Flood Records / All rights reserved.

(II)  'Dance on Mars'. (c) 2132 - Mars Crew.
Flood Records / All rights reserved.

(III)  'Say Yeah!'. (c) 2131 - B.A.G.
DeadJam / All rights reserved. (BAG@multi.deadjam.com)

(IV)  'Killing Game, The'. (c) 2132 - Force Crew.
KONK / All rights reserved.

(V)  'Kiss my Oxygen Tank'. (c) 2068 - Big Ripe Tomato.
  (New version by Plausible Heroes)
Silver Plate Head / All rights reserved.

(VI)  'Does not somebody want to be wanted'. (c) 2132 - Raven Family.
KONK /  All rights reserved.

(VII)  'Nightfly is Gone, The'. (c) 2133 - Section Z.
DeadJam / All rights reserved. (SZ@multi.deadjam.com)


(*) From the book 'Three Steps In Human Understanding'.
    Elephant Books. (c) Ian Swede, 2106.
    With kind permission from the author.

(**) Nightfly refers to the Phalun massacre in the year of 2132.

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BOLERO

1994 release by Stanley Jordan
By Dee Philipp Binggeli

Having come back from a four-year recording and touring hiatus, guitarist
Stanley Jordan, well-known for his pickless technique of playing with both
hands on the neck of his guitar, says he is eager to be busy again and jump
back into the rat race he calls music business.

Jordan's latest release, BOLERO, is his debut album for Arista Records.
On BOLERO, Jordan takes on Maurice Ravel's classic, jazz standards and an
original composition on which he plays two guitars simultaneously.


The album's opening track, a contemporary take on Ravel's "Bolero," is
truly a tour-de-force. Grafting the deceptively simple theme onto a
succession of wildly different musical styles, Jordan creates an amazingly
colorful rendition that contains all of the original's highs and lows -- as
well as its quiet, melodically emphasized and chaotic passages.

Other gems on this release include:

   * "Always and Forever," a rapturous version of the Heatwave classic,
which is a product of Jordan's collaboration with producer Onaje Allan
Gumbs (who produced Jordan's "The Lady in My Life" some eight years ago on
the MAGIC TOUCH album).

   * "Betcha By Golly Wow," once made famous by the Stylistics, and now
freshly interpreted by Jordan, who craftily links the melody with jazz
scales in his now-oh-so-familiar style.

   * Herbie Hancock's jazz funk classic "Chameleon," whose simple, sturdy
riff Jordan uses to build his complex improvisations. Surprisingly,
"Chameleon" emerges with a sense of renewed vitality, caused by Jordan's
energy and sonic daring.

But one of the most astonishing feats on this release is "Plato's Blues," a
Jordan original, dedicated to his mother, who recently passed away and was
a student of Plato's teachings throughout her life. On "Plato's Blues,"
Jordan plays two guitars simultaneously -- one with his right hand, and the
other with his left. Playing live. No overdubs. Nevertheless, Jordan is
able to create a full sound, with leads and walking bass lines, all by
himself. The intriguing thing about this tune is the fact that the lead
part always knows where the rhythm (or the bass) is at any given moment. So
to Jordan this must feel like playing with a twin brother who knows exactly
what the other one is going to do next.

This year, Jordan will tour not only the U.S. but also South America and
parts of Asia. While taking a breather from touring, Jordan found time to
explain what BOLERO is all about.


Q: YOU JUST RECENTLY SWITCHED FROM THE MORE SERIOUS, JAZZ-ORIENTED BLUE
NOTE LABEL TO ARISTA RECORDS. HOW DID THAT GO?

(Stanley Jordan:) "Well, I tell you the reason why I did it was that I felt
that Arista had more resources as far as the marketing goes. Blue Note had
a very small amount of capital that they had to work with for promotion.
And even though I liked working with the people there, I had to make a
decision that they were only so far that they could take me as far as the
access of my music to the listeners. So that's why I had to make the
change."


Q: WHEN YOU REFER TO MARKETING, DO YOU MEAN TO SAY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
REACH A LARGER AUDIENCE, PERHAPS DIFFERENT PEOPLE?

(Stanley Jordan:) "Both. My feeling right now is that I haven't reached the
limit of the number of people who would appreciate my music if they heard
it. So that shows me that there is more space out there where I can
experiment to. Even things like going to some of the other countries, and
all of that, is part of it."


Q: I'M CURIOUS: I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO BOLERO VERY INTENSELY. HOW MUCH OF
A SAY DID FOR INSTANCE ARISTA HAVE IN THE THINGS THAT YOU PUT ON BOLERO?

(Stanley Jordan:) "They make suggestions, and their suggestions mostly come
from a marketing standpoint, because that's what they know. That's their
expertise. And they don't make any bones about it. They don't try to hide
it. They'd say, 'This is what we think would help you to get the music
out.' So basically it is up to me to follow their suggestions or not.
   "Because the marketing aspect is important to me, what I'm going to do
is figure out if their suggestions make sense to me. How can I incorporate
that and still stay true to what I want to do musically? It's kind of on me
to do that, because if I don't want to take that challenge on, then I don't
have to. At the same time, I want people to hear the music, too. There's a
lot of stuff that I play. I have a lot of diverse interests in music. I
don't feel that the be-all and end-all of being a musician is fame, or
money, or recognition...I'm happy to play. Even if nobody knew about me, I
would still do what I do, because it satisfies me.
   "So if there is any aspect of it that I feel I can put out to the
market, then I'm going to put that out. And if there is some aspect in my
music that I don't really feel is marketable, I don't feel like very many
people are interested in, then I don't really have that much incentive to
put it out. I still do it, but I might not be so likely to put it out."


Q: YOU SAID IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO TAKE ARISTA'S SUGGESTIONS AND COMBINE
THEM WITH YOUR IDEAS. WAS IT VERY HARD?

(Stanley Jordan:) "To give you an example, they recommended the idea of
doing an album of standards. I've done that before, so I didn't really feel
like I needed to do it again for my own sake. But from a marketing
standpoint, if there's going to be new people listening to my music, then
it would be good for them to be able to kind of catch up-because for the
last six or seven years I've been concentrating on standards.
   "So that's where I've been, in a way, so it would be good for the new
people to catch up with where I've been. Then when I move to the next
thing, they have some background on where my music is coming from. So
there's an area where I felt that I could incorporate their suggestions, as
long as I felt that the standards would get across all the things that I
wanted to do musically.
   "BOLERO, for example, even the idea of taking "Bolero" [Ravel's original
composition] and approaching it the way we did, there's a lot of space in
there for expressing a lot of the different aspects of my music. Probably
my biggest concern on a career level is not getting pigeon-holed. For me
that would be a disaster, even if it was in one of my favorite styles of
music, say straight-ahead jazz. Even if it was that, I wouldn't want to be
pigeon-holed in that, because that's not the only thing that I want to do.
   "So I think that the BOLERO gave me a chance to kind of stretch out and
explore a lot of different sides of what I want to do. That's an example
where I could use their suggestion, but still musically I could take it
into a lot of different directions that made sense for me. That's nice."


Q: ONE MUSIC CRITIQUE ACCUSED YOU OF BEING TOO SAPPY, TOO MAINSTREAM ON
BOLERO, DEVIATING TOO MUCH FROM YOUR EARLIER COMPOSITIONS.

(Stanley Jordan:) "That sounds like two different things. One thing is that
they didn't like the emotional tone of the music, because there is a lot of
romantic stuff on the record, and maybe they weren't really looking for an
album that addressed that. The other thing is about the idea of my own
compositions versus other people's compositions. One record doesn't say it
all for me. There is no way I can put everything I do into one record. So
there is always going to be something left out.
   "Sometimes what I try to do -- I did an album called MAGIC TOUCH and
another one CORNUCOPIA -- where I really tried to put a lot of the stuff I
was doing into the record. Then I've had other records, I did one called
LYING HOME, for example, where I said, 'Forget it. I'm not even going to
try and do that. I'm going to take one idea, and I'm going to really
explore that, instead of trying to do a little bit of everything.' And this
record [BOLERO] has a little of both worlds, because in a way the record
really has a focus.
   "It's got funky tracks, and it's got romantic ballads, and it doesn't
have a lot of complex harmonies. It doesn't have a lot of weird time
signature changes. It emphasizes expression, melodic nuances, phrasing,
dynamics and stuff like that, which has really been the main focus
of my development for the last ten years."
   "I used to be crazy about making the music as complicated as I could.
And a lot of people, including jazz musicians, including my classical
composition professors at Princeton, told me that they thought that I
needed to slow down and learn how to play more expressively. I thought they
were right, and ever since before I started making records, that's been my
main focus, to play expressively. So since that's the phase I'm going
through, that shows up on my records.


Q: YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED TO GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH YOU ON
THIS ALBUM, AND THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

(Stanley Jordan:) "The next album is going to be all, or almost all, my own
compositions. I feel like I've done this standards thing enough. I felt
like I kind of had a point to make with that, 'cause although I love the
older standards, I felt that I could make a contribution by bringing up
some of the more recent songs and be coining them to standards. I'd like to
see a new generation of jazz musicians taking the newer repertoire, like
the 60s and 70s for example, and using that as vehicles for improvisation.
So that when you go to a club to sit in, you can play I Can't Get Started,
but you can also play Always and Forever as a jazz tune. So I would like to
make some contributions to that. That's one of the things that I've been
doing, and I think I made that point, and I feel like I can move on now."


Q: YOU ONCE MENTIONED THAT THE MUSIC BUSINESS COULD MAKE YOU A SLAVE. HAS
THAT HAPPENED RECENTLY?

(Stanley Jordan:) "I felt the basic thing in the music business is that
everybody is in such a hurry, and there is this incredible desperation,
like 'We've got to get the product out now. Things are changing real fast.
We have to keep up with all these changes.'
   "I just don't feel that people are going to forget me. I just don't feel
that people are going to forget me. I feel that if what I'm doing really is
valuable to people, then I think they are going to want to remember it. So
I don't really feel that I have to be in such a rush. But what happened was
that I did get caught up in the rush, because that's the way that
environment is.
   "So I felt that the best way for me to get my life back is for me just
to get out of it for a while and just sort of not really even participate
in it as much as I used to. What was great about that was it gave me a
chance to get back to a lot of other things that are important in my life,
that I was neglecting, like my family, my spiritual development, and I'm
interested in a lot of other things besides music, and it gave me a chance
to pursue and study some other things I'm interested in. So that was all
really good for me.
   "I changed my diet. I'm vegetarian now. I feel really good, because
I took the time out to work on myself -- rather than being out there
surrounded by people who are always trying to take and take and take what
they can from my talent. Now I feel really rejuvenated. Now I feel like I
really want to get out there again. I want to jump in the rat race and be
really busy and everything going crazy...I started to miss that."


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dee Philipp Binggeli is a writer, music-addict and
multimedia enthusiast who lives in Salt Lake City. For more information
about this and other reviews, interviews and full length articles (or to
leave comments, questions and suggestions) e-mail to: dagomar@aol.com

1994 by e-News Media, Salt Lake City.

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                 "THREE RENDEZ-VOUS WITH THE MEN OF POWER"
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu

 
                    "this is not a speculative philosophy
                     this is not a twisted thought
                     this is the empirical reality
                     be my guest, have a look around
                     and see for yourself"
                                      (I.S Jr.)




  First Rendez-Vous; FREE INFORMATION.

          He confronted each of the members of the state by staring into
        their  eyes  one  by  one.  They did not look away, but he could
        tell that they were quite annoyed by his presence in the sterile
        and  cold room.  Their black suits looked like monoliths made of
        stone against the white walls.
          I  want  free information, he said.  I want it all.  I want to
        know what you do with my life.  I want to know what you know.
          The  men  in the black suits looked at each other with neutral
        faces,  some  of  them tapped their fingers against the circular
        table.   He  stood  by  the door staring at them and they stared
        back.   His  eyes  were filled with hate, they just seemed to be
        bored.
          It  lies  in  the  word Information that it should be free, he
        said.
          Naturally, they answered.  But all information cannot be free.
        We cannot reveal our secrets for you.  You are a simple citizen.
        We are the power.
          He raised a finger.
          No, the people are the power.
          We are the power, they repeated.
          He  sighed.   He  knew that it would be like this.  Talking to
        the state implicated something like speaking to a wall.
          Revolution.
          What did you say?  they asked him.
          This time he smelled fear in the air.
          I  said  Revolution.  The people have the power, we can always
        crush you in a bloody revolution.  I guess you are aware of that
        my humble friends.
          Something happened.  The state tried to remain calm.
          What do you want from us?  they asked.
          He  felt glad.  He had succeed - the magic word Revolution had
        helped him.  It was time to demand things for real.
          I want.
          Pause.  Silence.
          I want - free information.
          You want free information?  I want to know it all?
          He was in control now.  They had to listen to him and do as he
        told  them  to.   But he had to be careful, one mistake could be
        fatal.
          Yes.   I want to know everything.  I want all your papers, all
        your files and all your secrets.
          Right.
          This was too easy.
          You can have it all tomorrow.
          Fine!
          He  marched  out  of the room like a winner.  He was a winner.
        The  state  would give him the free information.  He just had to
        wait.
          The  next  day, seven bombers swept past his house.  He cursed
        himself  for being so stupid.  They were going to kill him.  But
        then  he  saw  the free information.  It rained over him.  Seven
        air  planes,  enormous and made of cold steel, opened their bomb
        doors  and released several tonnes of papers, files and secrets.
        The massive information flow fell over him and crushed his house
        and  himself.   Top  secret  papers  blew away in the breeze and
        danced  over  his  lawn.   His dead face smiled when the bombers
        disappeared beyond the horizon.
          He had won the victory over the State.


  Second Rendez-Vous; WHAT IS THE PRICE OF LIFE?

          What is the price of life?  he asked the State.
          No  answer.   The  people  in the black suits just yawned as a
        response to the question.
          Let me tell you something I seriously doubt that you know.
          One man interrupted him.
          We know the price of life, the man said.  The price is life is
        judged against how many lives that can be saved.  If we kill one
        man to save ten, we have not done anything wrong.
          Wrong!
          The man smiled.
          What  is  wrong with that?  Pure utilitarianism, nothing wrong
        with that.
          He felt the anger boil inside him.  His head would explode any
        second if he did not calm down.
          You cannot put a tag on a human life!  he yelled.
          Yes, we can.  We do it all the time.
          He  took  a  deep  breath.  The chill air filled his lungs and
        left  him  in  a  peaceful  state.  He was ready to continue the
        discussion in a suitable manner.
          I know you do it all the time.
          Good.
          But many people do not know this.
          Of course.
          Do  you  know  what  would happen if everybody in this country
        knew  that  you  just  kill for money and for the sake of saving
        your own position as the power?
          No answer.  The men looked down, fearing the unknown.
          You would lose your power.
          No answer.
          You would disappear.
          No answer.
          Do you know what I am going to do now?
          No  answer.   But  their  scared faces revealed that they knew
        what he was going to do next.
          I  am  going  to  go  out  and tell the world about our little
        conversation.   People will listen to me.  They will be aware of
        your 'pure utilitarianism'.  This has been a nice talk.  Bye.
          He stepped out of the room and out on the street.
          Life  is  not something you can buy or sell, he thought.  Life
        is  not  cheap.   It  is a gift which is not given to you by the
        state.  Life is expensive.
          But  life  was  cheap.   It only took one single bullet from a
        sniper's  rifle to end his life.  The State raised the money.
          Pure utilitarianism - one man for the men in power.


  The Last Rendez-Vous; THE MAN IN POWER.

          There  was one  empty chair.  Without a word, she walked to it
        and  sat down.  His move was rather arrogant.  No one sat by the
        circular  table  expect  for  the  men  in power.  The room, the
        chairs and the table was reserved for the State and no one else.
          I feel good sitting here, she said and smiled.
          The men in the black suits mumbled something to each other.
          I  feel  good,  because  I  know  this is my place.  We have a
        democracy  in  this country, she said.  The people are the power.
        I am one of the people.  I have the power, hence I can sit here.
          We  have  the  power,  a man said and stared at him with angry
        eyes.  You do not have the power.  You should not be here.
          We  have  a  rendez-vous,  remember?  I am here to talk to you
        people.
          But  you  should  not  sit down  on a chair  that  belongs  to
        someone else.
          Watch me.
          She placed her feet on the circular table.
          I can do whatever I feel for. I am a free human.  You are just
        people, people, people. Just like me!  You are no Gods!
          The men burst out laughing.
          I  have  seen  you kill two men today.  You can kill me if you
        want  to.   I do not care.  You can put me in jail, torture me -
        but I will never lose my freedom.
          The men just laughed and slapped their knees.
          What are you laughing about?  I am right, and you know it!
          We are not Gods, a giggling man answered.
          You see!
          But you are sitting on his chair.




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                       PSYCHO(LOGICAL)SCOPE

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
really good deep inside, please continue reading at the subtitle named
"SUCKER".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
bad deep inside, please continue reading at the subtitle named "REALIST".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are not
to be generalized as good or bad, please continue reading at the subtitle
named "PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
disgusting when you get to know them better, please continue reading at the
subtitle named "EXPERIENCED".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
naive as hell, please continue reading at the subtitle named
"GROWN-UP WANNA BE".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
easily fooled by you or others, please continue reading at the subtitle
named "CRIMINAL".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think that people are
too busy, please continue reading at the subtitle named "GET A LIFE".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think all people are
smarter than you, please continue reading at the subtitle named
"GETTING THE POINT".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think all people are
ugly, please continue reading at the subtitle named "FIND A MIRROR".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time consider suicide, please
continue reading at the subtitle named "BEST WAY OUT".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time consider killing people,
please continue reading at the subtitle named "BEST WAY TO GO".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time kill people, please
continue reading at the subtitle named "WAY TO GO".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time torture small animals,
please continue reading at the subtitle named "POTENTIAL POLITICIAN".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time torture big animals,
please continue reading at the subtitle named "POTENTIAL PRESIDENT CANDIDATE."

If you are the kind of person who most of your time play with yourself,
please continue reading at the subtitle named "STICKY WHEN HOT".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time work at the factory,
please continue reading at the subtitle named "SLAVE FOR LIFE."

If you are the kind of person who most of your time look out for spooks and
cops, please continue reading at the subtitle "CLASSIFIED."

If you are the kind of person who most of your time think of tying up your
partner before making love to him/her, please continue reading at the
subtitle named "KINKY."

If you are the kind of person who most of your time tie up your partner
to rape him/her, please continue reading at the subtitle named "KINKY".

If you are the kind of person who most of your time tie up unknown people
to rape him/her, please continue reading at the subtitle named
"LOW PROFILE."

If you are the kind of person who most of your time tie up random family
members to rape them, please continue reading at the subtitle named
"INTERNAL AFFAIRS".


---------------------------- Section 2 -------------------------------

* SUCKER
  Your biggest problem is your ignorance. Concentrate on what people mean,
  not what they tell you. See the facts through their lies. Your own
  judgement is better than other people's experiences. Your kind is rare.

* REALIST
  Your biggest problem is your ignorance. Stop looking down on people. Stop
  talking and begin listening. You are no better than the next person. You
  belong to the majority of people on earth.

* PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL
  Your biggest problem is your ignorance. It is not about reading, it is
  about understanding what is written. You are stuck in your ways. Do
  something you normally would not do for once.

* EXPERIENCED
  You have seen the facts through the lies. You never lie to yourself about
  your life. Continue being true to yourself and others. Do not listen to people
  you dislike. Fight for your ideas. Never give up.

* GROWN-UP WANNA BE
  Your childhood was traumatic. There are people who are better than you.
  Being an adult does not come with your age. Start talking to people instead
  of ignoring them. Things changes, so will you.

* CRIMINAL
  You are not alone. You do not have to change your ways. Your abilites will
  serve you well in life. Be sure you know the difference between smart and
  greedy. Help out people of your own kind. Beware of infiltrators.

* GET A LIFE
  Get yourself engaged in different projects. Do not let your fear from
  earlier experiences stop you. Never let people who are suspicious near you.
  Studying is not important, since you already have the knowledge.

* GETTING THE POINT
  Read more. Always say what you think. Get even with people you dislike.
  Do not worry about getting more enemies. Be mean to kids. Look down on
  people who deserve it. Demand more in return.

* FIND A MIRROR
  Your biggest problem is your ignorance. Watch more news, read less
  magazines. Look through your wardrobe. People think you can not be trusted.
  Speak up more often. Never allow being interrupted.

* BEST WAY OUT
  Talk more, think less. Begin trusting people. Always have an open mind.
  Initiate a religious cult. Lie to people you dislike. Learn to hate. Keep
  your deepest thoughts about life to yourself.

* BEST WAY TO GO
  Stop talking, start acting. Do not let your moral standings bother you.
  People will look up to you. Love your enemies, hate your friends. Always
  correct things you dislike. Never lie. Never die.

* WAY TO GO
  You have identified your problems. You know how to do something about them.
  Your biggest enemy is yourself. Never trust anyone. Only believe what you
  see. Read about something you hate.

* POTENTIAL POLITICIAN
  Your greatest disadvantage is your brain capacity. Do not hesitate
  expanding your projects. Make friends among the lucky. Do anything to get
  everything. Remember that the enlightened is never happy.

* POTENTIAL PRESIDENT CANDIDATE
  Your greatest disadvantage is your brain capacity. Do not take no for an
  answer. Never confess anything. Forget anything of importance. Always
  overlook something fatal. The stars are your friends.

* STICKY WHEN HOT
  Share what you have among the disadvantaged. Spread your words to
  strangers. Look people deep in their eyes when talking to them. Never lie
  to a friend. Do not trust anyone to scrub your back.

* SLAVE FOR LIFE
  Knock down the walls. Paint your world red. Never take orders. Try other
  ways of justifying yourself. Oil the stairs to your oppressors. Ruin the
  life of someone luckier than you.

* CLASSIFIED
  Never quit once you have started. Change often and irregular. Ensure that
  you will be continuously updated. Be the first to know. Be the last to
  tell. You are the one in control. They know nothing. Fight to the very end.

* KINKY
  When you do things, do it well. Make people believe you are worse than you
  really are. Fake anything you can not do. Blame someone else. Never attend
  a meeting alone. Lie if you are confronted with facts.

* LOW PROFILE
  Never trust a stranger. Always get your will through. Make people like you.
  Eliminate any competition. Old friends are old enemies. Do not act the way
  you are supposed to. Stay in shape.

* INTERNAL AFFAIRS
  Everything you have been told were lies. Everything you have done were only
  dreams. Make your own world. Only believe what you feel. They do not know
  enough. Kiss the steel of the future.

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                              "POPULATION X"
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu




  Right.  So I thought that this day could not possible get any worse.  But
naturally  it  would soon turn out that I was wrong again.  I had to run to
my  car  this  morning  because of a hellish rain that poured down over the
city  as  if  it tried to wipe it out.  When I finally managed to start the
damn  thing  I  naturally  drove over my daughters bicycle that was by some
weird  reason  parked  behind the car.  The highway was nothing more than a
great snake of cars that kept on honking at each other.  When I finally got
to  work, had said hello to my secretary in the lobby, unlocked the door to
my  office (it is always locked for security reasons, even if the secretary
is sitting next to it) and stepped in I saw that someone had written


                           WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!


  ...with thick red letters all over the wall on my left.
  I immediately called for my secretary.
  "Mrs Johnson, please come into my office!  Now!"
  I saw her rise from her brown desk, take three steps over the blue carpet
and into my office.  She turned to me ans said:  "What can I..."
  Then she saw the text on the wall.
  "Oh!"
  I  placed  my hat and briefcase on the visitors sofa, before I went to my
mini-bar and gave myself a huge glass of fine whiskey.  I swallowed half of
the strong substance at once.
  "I  have  had a bad morning, mrs Johnson." I mumbled.  "And I don't fancy
any practical jokes right now.  What the hell is this?"
  She stroke her blonde hair and looked quite confused.
  "I actually don't know sir." she said.
  "Oh, please mrs Johnson..."
  "I don't know!"
  She  talked  to me in a way the revealed that she really did not know.  I
calmed down.  Then I noticed that today's mail was placed on my desk.
  I pointed at the mountain of envelopes.
  "When  did  you leave the mail here today?", I asked her even if I almost
knew the answer.
  "Fifteen minutes ago."
  "And you didn't see this...  terrorist attack?"
  "No!  I swear!"
  I  walked with the glass in my hand to the window.  From the tenth floor,
I  had  quite  a nice view over the wet city.  The rain drummed against the
window, bang bang bang.  I sighed.
  "Thanks,  mrs  Johnson.  That will be all." I said and she left the room,
closing the door behind her.
  Right  now,  I hated the rain, I hated the city and I definitely hated to
be a mayor in it.  In my job I had to complain and hear complaints.  No one
ever told me if something was alright.  No, I was supposed to fix things in
this small world of concrete without expecting one single thanks.  Now some
madmen  demanded  their  rights.   What rights?  The right to break into my
office and destroy my wall paper?
  I  turned  around  and  found  my soft chair.  I sank down on it and took
another  sip of my whiskey.  I watched the letters on the wall and saw that
someone had written:


                           WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!
                   WE WANT OUR FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS!


  ...  when I had looked away.
  "Damn!"  I  screamed and dropped my glass.  I jumped from the chair up on
my desk and looked around.
  "Okay,  you  little  son  of a bitch!  I should have guessed that you are
here since my secretary noticed that nothing had been written when she left
me my mail!  Where are you?  Vandal!"
  Nothing  happened.   I  tried  to  figure  out where the joker had hidden
himself  in  my  room  but it was hard.  There was almost no place to hide.
The  only  place I could think of was the little closet below the mini-bar,
where I stashed my issues of Playboy.  I climbed down from the desk, got my
little .38 revolver out of my briefcase and headed for the bar.
  With the gun in my hand, I opened the closet.  No one there.
  "Asshole!" I yelled.  "Who are you?"
  When I turned around I saw;


                           WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!
                   WE WANT OUR FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS!
                       YOU CAN CALL US POPULATION X.


  I violently opened the door to the lobby.  My secretary just stared at me
with  her mouth open when she saw me standing there.  I do not blame her, I
might  have  looked  rather terrifying with a gun in my hand below my white
face.
  "Mrs Johnson!  In my office!  Now!  Now!  Now!"
  I marched into my office again and she followed me.
  "Look!" I screamed.
  She  looked at the message on the wall.  Then she smiled, patted me on my
shoulder and went back to her desk.
  "Should I call your doctor?" she asked me with a caring voice.
  "I  have  not written this!" I growled and slammed the door shut.  Then I
opened  it  again and said "...  and do not call my lousy doctor!  I am not
ill, hence I do not need his amateur opinion!"
  I heard a faint "Okay boss" before I closed the door.  I went to the wall
with  the  letters and examined them from a close distance.  I noticed that
the letters were not dry and did not smell like paint usually do.  I put my
finger  on  a  'C'  and  got  a drop on my finger.  I placed the drop on my
tongue and tasted it.  It was blood.
  This was too much even for me.
  "Who  are  you  who  dares to break into my office, write crap on my wall
(with blood - are you a killer or do you simply work at a slaughter house?)
and demand you so-called rights?  Bastard!" I screamed.
  From  the  corner  of my eye I saw something move.  I turned around fast,
just  in  time  to see my telephone fly over the room against me.  I ducked
and the phone crashed into the wall above me.
  When I looked up, I could see


                           WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!
                   WE WANT OUR FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS!
                       YOU CAN CALL US POPULATION X.
                         DO NOT CALL ME A BASTARD!


  "Sorry." I mumbled despise the fact that I was in a rage.  I did not want
this  who-ever-he-was to break any more of my precious things.  I walked to
the mini-bar and got myself another drink.  The liquid burned my throat but
it felt good anyway.


                           WE DEMAND OUR RIGHTS!
                   WE WANT OUR FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS!
                       YOU CAN CALL US POPULATION X.
                         DO NOT CALL ME A BASTARD!
        WE ARE TIRED OF BEING TREATED AS NON-EXISTING INDIVIDUALS.
                        YOU WILL HEAR MORE FROM US!


  I  sighed.   Then  I  sighed  again  before  I  picked  up  my  phone and
re-connected  it  to  the socket.  I sat down on my chair and sighed again.
Before  the letters suddenly disappeared from the wall as if they had never
existed I saw the last line of the message.


                      YOURS, EARL WALZNER (1897-1974)


  I rotated my chair and looked out through the window again.  The wet city
had  suddenly  gotten  itself  another  freedom-thirsty  crowd of people, I
concluded and I hated my work even more.
  I  knew that not only this day, but the following years would become very
though  for  me  as  a  mayor.   I  thought about suicide for a second, but
quickly  dropped  the idea since the last people I would like to join right
now was population X.




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	Hello,

	Yes, i'm back again with my third poetry collection. Since well
	about the middle of the second poetry collection I have fallen
	in love with the greatest girl! I'm sure you all will be able
	to tell from my poetry how i feel. :)

	Also recently i have been thinking, these poetry collections
	are kindof like my journal of life, not only a journal of words
	and thoughts but of feelings aswell.

	With all that said I would like to dedicate this poetry collection
	to Karen, for without whoom i would have never written anything
	past the first poetry collection :)

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Blue Beast:
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the blue beast stood there
standing in confusion
swimming in the skies of it's mind
feeling the pressure of the grind

running from something full of terror
trying to defend from some grevious error
making mistakes, taking the right courses
the beast has no remources

dancing around like a hippy with a toupee
flippin an trippin the time away
searching for something worthwhile
building and building, adding to the pile

treading forward
trying not to look back
searching for the sunlight
fleeing from the dark

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Love Rocket:
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outburst of emotion
flowing feelings
love like a river
no inland in sight

drifting on a sea of emotion
moving gently with the waves
the salty spray of love
enough to make any day

life is empty before
but afterwards it's full
the tide will make you laugh
and act like a fool

feeling so happy
so much to say
emotional rocket
going up and away


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Karen the Light:
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when my days are dark and dismal
when my nights are lacking of light
when there seems tt be no end in sight
here comes karen to end my plight

when stuff seems to pile up
when nothing seems to align
you come into my life
you make everything so fine

you make the darkest feelings into happy thoughts
you make my life have a great meaning
you make me feel good when i feel dead
if i didn't have you, everything would be a lie

i lie at night, on the verge of sleep
you run through my mind, no more sheep, no sand
you are my light, you are my life
i hope this you will understand


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Distance of Time:
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the distance the wait
the farness the fate
we are so close but far
our feelings will bring us a car

chaotic thoughts
insane feelings
weird thoughts
sending me reeling

the thought of holding you close
of kissing your lips
of us together
set sail the ships

no matter the wait it shall always feel long
no matter how much we are together the feeling will last
for when we are, it will be a blast
love is here, love is there, we have it true, we sure care

no matter the turmoil
no matter the plight
keep looking forward
to that faithful night


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Creatures of the Night:
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i awaken with a smile
it is afternoon and i've slept a while
my days are full of thoughts of you
on my mind is nothing but you

i await the night
like a vampire ready to take fight
for when nine comes it is the time
the time for us to take wing

like a vampire ready to take victim
like the blood pulsing the happiness
the night is where we are
the night is when i'm happiest

i see you across the monochrome glare
i see you with a monochrome stare
an insane smile upon my face
you certainly do light up the place

we are together into the night
without you the dark would be full of fright
i know when we are finally together
everything is so right, like the vampire at flight


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Thought of Love:
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the thought of being near you
the thought of our first kiss
your gentle caress
the thought beings bliss

when we are togeather
war, famine, strife
everything bad goes away
i'm longingly awaiting that faithful day

the thought of us being togeather
the thought of this forever
the thoughts racing in my head
like a river of emotion in my heart and my head

your warm touch, my loving embrace
ourpowerful love
we shall take flight
like the white dove


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True Love:
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when the love between two is true
when their feelings have no equal
there is nothing higher then love
nothing as magic as their feelings

when there is nothing else
nothing else fills their hearts
nothing else fills their minds
nothing can break this magical mood

when two true lovers are bomb together
nothing can feel stronger
nothing can break the true bond
everything else is like a stagnant pond

it is said that true love will never die
the ones in true love will always find a way
the true love shall break up any fray
true love, who thank it


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Unity:
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two souls
two identites
two bodies
one in infinity

two thoughts are the same
two tracks running on the same lane
two people very much in love
two emotions racing to be above

two individuals
needing to be one
two spirits
loving the other one

two souls
which are the same
two people stand near the flame
one unity of the sane

the unity of the two
there is nothing more true
the sanity of the two
love will make them do what they do


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Lonely Love:
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the empty feeling
the nagging longing
the need to be with you
the warmpth of your embrace

the hard lonelieness
the need for just one kiss
the want to hold you in my arms
the feeling of distance

the money is not around
the boat is here but i'm afraid i'd drown'd
the plain has flew the coup
this is a big dupe

to hear your emotions
to feel your thoughts
erases my insecurity
devours my depression

the future is all we can hold
the present is already old
when we are togeather
our happiness will be tenfold

our dreams
our wishes
our love
magical bliss

the faithful night
i will hold you in my arms
all will be worth it
all the nights disarmed

to feel your warm love
it is the thought that makes me rise above
the thought of our bright future
our lonely present is here, but tomorrow it's gone

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                 Everything You Need to Know About Techno
                  (but was to lazy to check up yourself)
                      by Ralph 124C41+ of PowerDrive

  Hi there, dear reader. This is the first complete collection of
knowledge about techno ever published. It will tell you absolutely
everything you can possibly need to know about techno. But let's skip the
talk and get right into it!

THE TALK

First of all you must learn to talk in the right way, the text above is
totally wrong for instance. It would have sounded something like this:
"Yo MaN! dIG dIZ! fUckInG aLL yA nEEd Ta KnOW aBouT tECHno! I wuz FiRST,
nO meSS!". Actually you don't talk that way, it only how it's written. If
you feel uncertain about what letters should be in capital case you can
use a dice or install a random number generator in your keyboard. The way
to talk is harder to describe but here you could just put on some
sunglasses and keep your mount shut at all times. This is called to be
"cool".

MOVING

  There is one move that is *very* important when it comes to techno, it's
to point an your knees. In my research I have not found why knees are so
important in techno but my preliminary studies indicates some kind of
kinky sex. I'll be back if I ever find out.
  The move itself is made by first sticking out your arm about as a bird
wing on a slightly mentally insane seagull, keep your hand flat with all
fingers together. Then you just point at your knees. Do this with both
arms at the same time. This is done every time you say "Yo!" and a great
deal of the rest of the time as well.
  If you find this move to hard you can just put your hands in your
pockets and stand like that. To have dark glasses helps a lot in this
situation. This is also a part of being "cool".

DANCE

  This is the easiest part because you can do pretty much what you like,
but some basic moves is good to know. A very common one is to stand
up with straight arms, then you move your right arm up so that it becomes
horizontal, then you take it down again and do the same thing with your
left arm.
  Another common move is to stand up and shake without controll, just fake
an epileptic attack and you should do fine. If you are an epileptic you
are on the safe side, four your convenience there are lots of flashing
lights put up so that you will have it easier to have an epileptic attack.

CLOTHES

  Clothes are very important, you must create your own style. This is
done by wearing exactly the same thing as everybody else. If you don't
know a lot of people who is into techno you might find it hard to know
exactly so let me tell you. First of all you must have some shoes, most
people into techno choose Converse All Stars so get a pair of those and
you should be on the safe side where footwear is concerned. The rest of
the clothing follows one simple rule: loose fit. Just steal your old mans
jogging outfit and no one will ever be able to tell you from any other
into techno. Another idea is to go to the Weight watchers and ask them for
their old clothes.

COMPUTERS

  Computer knowledge is very important if you want to get into techno. You
must simply forget everything you know about computers. This might be a
bit hard but just pop down to your friendly local drug dealer and ask for
something to give you amnesia.

DRUGS

  Drugs is very important in the techno scene, but the choice of drugs is
important. The basic rule is: never take any legal drugs. Beer, booze,
cigarettes and coffee is totally out of the question. Some things you
should try is LSD, XTC, PCP, PVC, DDT... Everything you need will be
offered to you so you will never have any problems finding what you need.
  Sometimes you will be offered energizer drinks, brain drugs and such
things, they are often very expensive but they will give you energy to
keep on dancing. They can also be found in the local supermarket, except
that there it's called "orange juice" or "sugar" (just add water).

MUSIC, listening

  The big problem with listening to techno is to tell the difference
between the tunes as they all sound the same. A good advice is to listen
for which word is used the most (often just a single word is used in the
entire tune) and assume that it is the title of the tune.
  It also good to learn some of the famous names, this is, unlike other
music, not the one who made the music or she one who speaks in the tune
but the one which is shown in the video. Often aliases are used like Mr
WC, Dr CP, Strawberry Ice-cream and Dr Dengroth.

MUSIC, making

  As mentioned above the most important when making techno is to have a
"cool" name, any actual musical talent is not necessary and often it is
just in the way. Start with a beat, you can either sample it from some
other tune or try to make it yourself (as some grown up to assist you).
Then it's time to put in some melody, the most common way is to sample
some old Kraftwerk tunes. If you don't have any Kraftwerk records you
could use a random number bass and let a cat walk over the keyboard when
the synthesizer is set to some fancy sound. Then you must think of the
lyrics of the tune. The easiest way to do this is to open a dictionary and
pick a word. Then you just pick some kid of the street and let him say
that work a couple of times. Then the tune is finished and the kid gets
all the money, fame and girl. Hey, no one said this was easy!

MUSIC, working as a DJ

  If you just are to play techno at a rave or something, like can be very
easy. There are several records with techno ready mixed so you just have
to start one of those and then concentrate on the actual as a DJ, to get
as many girls as possible in bed. This is often very easy because as DJ
you have the power over what tunes to play and you'd be amazed what girls
can do to to have their favorite tune played. You see that techno can be
rewarding as well!

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                         "SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE"
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu


                "What is mind? What is matter? Never mind."
                                          (unknown)



  I  look around and I see people.  Everywhere I look I can see them.  They
walk  the  streets of my city, they sit in front of me at the library, they
eat lunch at the same restaurant as me.  Sometimes, they give me a look but
I quickly look away.  It is dangerous to stare (and even look) at people in
a  big city.  They might be killers, madmen or just looking for a fight.  I
walk  the streets, watching the sidewalk pass below my feet.  I cannot look
at people.  People are dangerous.
  At  night  I  sit  on  my  bed, alone.  I hear my neighbors chat and play
music.   Outside,  I  hear  the rumbling noise of passing vehicles.  When I
tip-toe  to  the  window  and  look out, I can see neon signs and crowds of
people  far  below me.  I live in a very nice flat on the seventh floor.  I
am  rich,  but not famous.  Some of my friends says that they look up to me
and  wants  to be like me.  But in reality, they do not want to.  They have
no feelings at all.
  Why am I so successful?  Why do I have plenty of money?  Why have I never
failed?  I opened my eyes on the fourth of november in the merciful year of
nineteen  seventy-three.  The year is now nineteen ninety-seven, hence I am
twenty-four  years old.  I believe.  I cannot be sure.  I cannot be sure of
anything around me.
  You  see,  I have begun to think.  For the first time in my life, I think
about  the world around me.  What is this world?  Who am I?  Why do I live?
My  life  has been a constant search for more pleasure and more success.  I
have never ever failed.  I have never ever failed.
  I  look  around,  and I see people who fail.  How come that I never fail?
Whatever  I do, I do it correct.  I have a good education which have led me
into  the  so-called good life.  The good life consists of money, money and
everything that money can buy.
  I bought my life.  I bought my love.  I bought my friends.  Is it you, is
it me - why do I live in ecstasy?  It might be reality.  But I do not trust
that thought.
  Is  this  the  good life?  Yes, it is the good life.  I have the power to
make people love me and I have to the power to get rid of people who do not
want  to  love me.  I have more power than God.  Because, I have the money.
Jesus might have been able to transform water into wine, but I can buy more
wine than Jesus was ever able to drink.  I drink the wine of life.  It is a
sweet  liquid,  but  the  more  I  think about myself - the more the liquid
begins to have a slight taste of bitter.
  I  should  never  have began to think.  I should have remained satisfied.
Faust,  Prometheus  and  me.   We  all want to know it all.  We do not stay
satisfied with out present knowledge.
  Why?  Why!  I know things that no one else do.  I have used my grey brain
to achieve knowledge that is forbidden.
  I fear people.
  They are dangerous.
  They  are  dangerous because they are not real people.  I am a real human
being  made of flesh and blood.  I have a grey brain and a pulsating heart.
The shadows around me are not humans.  They are machines, made of steel and
electronic.   Their  feelings  and thoughts are mechanical, covered by soft
plastic that looks and feels just like real skin.
  They only way to control them is to buy them.  They have no souls nor any
possibility  to  think rational.  I am the only human being that is able to
do that.  Is not that funny?
  I  know  that  I am right about this.  I am so positive, that I could die
for it.  How come that I have never failed?  How come that other people are
like they are?  They are not like me.  I am special.  I am rich.  I am God.
But I am also a guinea-pig, placed in a huge vivarium, perhaps watched by a
doctor in a white uniform.
  I  want  proof.  I want to be sure that I am right.  Rational thinking is
good,  but  empirical data is alway correct.  Perhaps I am wrong.  But this
feeling is so strong, that I cannot resist to test.
  I  opened  the  door to my flat, said hello and let her in.  She said she
had  missed  me  and  that she needed to rest.  She had worked all day, she
said.   I watched her fingers and saw a ring that looked exactly like mine.
I  knew  that  it  was me who had placed the ring there.  She went into the
kitchen and I followed her.  I thought, what should I do, what should I do?
  I did it.  I stabbed her in the back with my boot knife that I had bought
this  afternoon.   She  screamed and tried to remove it from her back.  She
danced  around  in the kitchen, screaming, screaming, screaming.  I stepped
back, bit my lip and watched her.
  She screamed and I covered my ears.
  She looked at me with frightened eyes and I closed my eyes.
  After  two  hours, I looked up.  I must have passed out, since, I lied on
the  kitchen  floor.  She was in front of me on the floor.  Her eyes stared
at  me.  They stared right into my eyes.  I must have missed her mechanical
heart with the knife, since it took such a long time for her to die.
  My  hands  shaked but I had to move her.  When she lied on her stomach, I
drew  the  knife out of her body.  It was covered with fake blood, like the
floor.
  I  need  proof!   I knew I needed proof.  I just had to do one more thing
and  then I would be completely sure that I was right.  I cut her open with
the knife and stared into her body.
  I saw that I was wrong.
  But sometimes, I know that I am right anyway.
  I have never ever failed, and I never will.




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	Heya again,

	it is I, Bob Slack returning with count em, nine(9) yes nine
	more poems for your reading pleasure. These poems are a part
	of me and may give yas a little insight as to how i think and
	feel about stuff. Again any comments should be sent to me at
						bmullins@indy.net

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:Fred:

this is the story of fred
a scoundrel was he
he had the best of both worlds
women numbering one two and three

yes fred covorted with the three
with the greatest of glee
fred is against a wall
he is ready to take a fall

for if you play the heart stringe
you should know the risks
to hurt is to break a cord
to hurt is to break your word

the pain of the sufferer
the cost of the prize
not worth the goal
and not worth the lies

___
:Distance:

Distance is like a flowing river
swiftly going by
a barricade for some
easily crossed by the ones with the bridge

bridges come and go
crossing the bridge is easy
finding it isn't anways
but the other side is the goal

the other side the goal
to get there you need only find the bridge
to find the bridge open your heart
see with your heart instead of your eyes

eyes are the deceivers they show the external
what's inside is what really matters
what's inside is the only thing that matters
just like the cup, the bowl and the platters

___
:Electronic Folk Dance:

Electronic folk dance
the only way is to take the chance
dancing around the systems with glee
hoping nobody will ever catch me

Suspend in a process
dancing around the office
feinting work
such a jerk

traveling down the electric way
drowning just for a frey
so many minds meet
some to suffer defeat

feel the pulse of energy
the flow of informatiton
feel it explode into your mind
no you are one of a kind

___
:Light Dark:

searching forever
insearch of someone
someonw who cares someone to share with
the long darkness of dispair

a faint light
a glimmer in the night
the tunnel heads upwards
breaking away from the shards

standing in the sun
basking in the light
oh what a fright
to be set free

the emotional bomb
the stagnant pond
to find someone who cares
to find someone who is there

the sorrow dissapears
the sparrow the sphears
the lightness
it's so bright it burns

the burns heal
with the feeling of the light
the light is always there
the light shall comfort you

aling with the light is the night
the night and the light are equal
with the good is the bad
no more then the other, a reason to be glad

___
:Emotonal Path:

emotional explosion
devotton decision
stand tall
make the decision

take the right path
tread where the heart goes
follow the path of desolution
and fall like the fast thrillers

watch or you'll see the killers
decide and avoid quick thrill
be dragged under by the flash
the glam will be your snakebite

follow the roses
join in the eternal fun
live a life of joy
stand a chance, take the best route

follow your heart
if the path is long, preservere
you are the one who will win or lose
get what you deserve

___
:Waiting:

waiting
the time passes slow
oh so slow as the snow
time passes, no debating

the goal in waiting
patience
the road is long
incense

jump at the best
avoid the rest
the waiter wins
in the end, the best

avoid cheap imitations
plastic cutouts
cardboard replicas
in the end, no limitations

take the long train
notice the scenery
take the fast track
fall at the entry

rocks on the road?
stand tall
understanding will prevail
or take the fall

someday it will be true
all the way and worth it
but till that day have presistance
for that instant, be on top

___
:Love:

Love
such a four letter word
some people search for it
while others dispise it

thue emotons never falter
true love is like a glass of water
clear and pure
unrelenting and powerful

for love can carve rocks
water is a powerful force
love is refreshing on a hot day
water is knowing that you are always thought of

standing in the pits of sorrow
looking up into the sunlight
climbing free
with love there is no plight

for the ones in love there are good and bad times
the tides pull both outward and inward
the ocean is endless it seems
standing on the bank, bask in the spray

when a thought brightens even the darkest day
when a word heatens the coldest day
when happieness is a must do, and not a need
when love comes a knockin, ye shall be freed

stead fast like te Discordian warrior
confusion basks the battlefiels
the emotional power shall triumph
the glass walls shall fall and set you free

___
:Electronic Kiss:

Lost pieces
all fall to the ground
searching searching
gather what's found

pieces of the puzzle
scattered here and there
coming togeather
we will both be there

the electronic infinity
where we now roam
creating a small void
what we call home

taking on te waves of a lectron
so far awaay but so near
on the pulse of energy
comes my love

awaiting that day
the day where we wont be away
waiting in bliss
awaiting your kiss

___
:Disco Death:

flowing through your veins
with every pulse
with every beat
try and wash away the blood

dancing to the mad groove
disco on the floow with a killer move
feel the pulse
move with the beat

dancing to the lightshow
flashy disco
moving and grooving
the blood shall flow

feel the move, do the groove
fear no evil, no light shall shine
the strobe keeps flashing
the moves start gashing

moving like a madman
flame green leasure suit
dressed to thrill
moves that kill

a discotronic is so psycho sonic
defy the whole, go with the flow
feel the move, do the groove
a discoing we shall go, just watch the show

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                        FUCK YOU, STEFAN KRONQVIST
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu




               A short tribute to Sweden's Public Idiot #1.


  Recently,  Mr  Stefan  Kronqvist  told  one of the largest news papers in
Sweden  that  'In  every BBS you will find children pornography.  Where you
find children pornography, you will find drugs and weapons.'
  With  those  words,  Mr  Kronqvist  exposed  his  gigantic  hate  against
computers  and  the  computer culture.  Who is this man?  Why do he keep on
destroying  the electronic world, by turning the mob against it?  What does
he  want?   What  Mr  Kronqvist said had nothing to do with his concern for
children nor his macho hunt for terrorists.
  Let me tell you about Mr Kronqvist.

  If  George  Orwell  had  been alive, he had not called the machine in his
epic  1984 'Big Brother', he had called it 'Big Stefan'.  Because the least
you could blame Mr Kronqvist for is that he loves the idea of police states
and  a  total  destruction  of  the  freedom  of  speech.   Compared  to Mr
Kronqvist,  Hitler, Stalin and Caligula looks like harmless infants.  He is
desperate  and  in  constant  agony.   He  cannot stand the fact that other
people  got  access  to  the infobahn and hence are able to know more about
this world than himself.  Beyond the black moustache and the thick glasses,
below  the  grey hair you will find a fanatic hunter that tracks down every
prey he smells and kills it without mercy.

  Why  do Mr Kronqvist behave like this?  We suppose that he has not always
thought  like  this,  so we must find out when his mind snapped.  Kronqvist
works  for  the  police  and  his  specialities  was to catch and prosecute
so-called  hackers  and  other  shockwave  riders.  This is a hard work and
Kronqvist  could  not take the heat.  He had trouble finding suspects which
made his superiors rather annoyed and gave him serious stomach problems.  I
asked one of his colleagues and he admitted that Kronqvist was not the real
man for a job like this.  "The guy got insane after a while, when he failed
to prosecute suspects," the colleague says.  "I have never seen a man bitch
and shout over details for several minutes and then suddenly run off to the
bathroom.  He did this over thirty times per day".
  The problem is that Kronqvist does not know anything about how computers,
networks  and  hackers  work.  He had to rely on illegal methods like phone
tapping  and indiscrete stake outs when he wanted to get somewhere.  It may
be  hard  to  believe, but at this stage Kronqvist was only half way to his
complete  break  down.   Suddenly,  he understood that hackers and computer
wizards  does  not  only  know  how  to  hack.  They know how to know about
everything  around  them.   This  left Kronqvist with fear.  I mean, if you
during  the  search  in  a  suspect's  house  finds  your  own life closely
documented  would not you freak out completely?  Kronqvist did.  Hence, his
hate  against the computer world is too great to be described in words.  Mr
Kronqvist  is a paranoid madman, a mega-lo-maniac and a menace to the human
race.   Unfortunately,  he  works  for  the state and cannot be attacked by
arguments that easy.

  After  Mr  Kronqvist  had  quit  his  job,  cut his hair and reloaded his
handgun  he  wanted  revenge.  He understood that it was not enough to just
catch  a few of the information-thirsty individuals that roared past him on
the  telephone lines.  He had to destroy everything that had to do with the
computer  culture  without mercy.  Since he is still employed by the state,
media trusts him when it comes to information about this subject.  The only
thing  he had to do was to lie.  Lie, lie, lie, exaggerate and show off his
huge  hate,  neatly  dressed  in  calm  words  which gives the population a
feeling of security.  Mr Kronqvist attacks the networks, the bulletin board
systems  and the computer underground on all front lines.  He tells the mob
that  modems  are  the  work of Satan, BBS'S and networks are private clubs
dedicated  to  pedophilia,  fringe  terrorist groups and drug abusers.  His
words  are  spread  across  the country like a fire storm and since the mob
want scandals they believe everything he says.

  What should we do about Stefan Kronqvist?  Should we let this man destroy
the  freedom  of speech, the human right to knowledge and the public access
to the networks and bulletin board systems?  If we declare war with him, we
cannot  fight  by  his  rules.   He is a police man, a man of the corrupted
state,  and  the  only  way  of talking he can is by gun, night stick and a
tight  prison.  However, we are not his personal victims that sit quiet and
swallow  the tears.  Computer networks means power and we still got access.
We  are  still  able.   No one shall stop us from making contact with other
people and break down the borders of the future.
  Spread  the  word.   Do  not  let  him  take over this world because then
nothing will ever be the same.




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                              "BIG BANG PHIL"
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu


                         "God does not play dice!"
                                      (Einstein)




  You  know,  Phil  was  that kind of guy that people tried to avoid at all
cost.  When he came walking through the corridors at the university, burned
face  and  smoke  rising  from  his hair, eyes shining, everybody ran away.
They  knew  he  was  up to something.  Phil was always up to something, but
only  concerning explosives.  Phil was a handsome young man, but completely
uninterested  in  social life.  He never drank anything (except for strange
fluids  he mixed himself) and he never dated any girls (and even if he did,
no one would go out with him since all humans fear death).
  After  two  days at the University of Dreil he managed to blow up a table
during  chemistry  class,  with  the help from some black powder he quickly
made (when he was supposed to peacefully mix water and sugar).
  That  was  the  first  time  his  class mates noticed him, and his insane
laughter  when something exploded.  After six weeks he had blown the entire
room  to trash thirteen times.  Then the headmaster heard about him.  After
the  first  year, Phil had accidentally (he always claimed that it had been
accidents)  blown  four  different  classrooms to nothing over thirty times
each,  he  had  set  the  school on fire over fifty times and he had almost
killed  five-hundred  people at the new years eve when he was in charge for
the fire crackers.
  But  Phil  was  not  concerned  (compared to his now totally neurotic and
paranoid  mates).   He claimed that he was a scientist, a scientist who had
dedicated  his  life  to  the  work  of  'everything  that  goes boom!' The
teachers,  the  students  and  the  rest of the town wanted Phil out of the
university  as  soon  as  (curse)  possible.  The headmaster however, often
praised  Phil  for being such a hard working student and let him stay.  'He
works day and night to fulfill his visions,' the headmaster said while half
of  the  building went up in flames.  'Phil loves to study and come up with
new  ideas,' he claimed while the school was filled with smoke and coughing
students.   'Phil  must  stay!',  he  yelled  when  yet  another  bottle of
nitroglycerine exploded and gave some old professor his third heart attack.
  But  we  have  not  yet reached to the point of this story.  Phil was not
some everyday pyrotechnic.  Trust me.
  One  day,  Phil  rushed  into the chemistry class and shouted that he had
invented a new kind of 'portable bomb' that would for sure 'kick ass'.  The
room  was  quickly  abandoned  and  left  Phil  alone  with the teacher who
desperately  prayed  to Jesus (and Satan and Muhammad and Krishna, whatever
he  could  think of before it was too late) from under a desk.  Phil walked
to  him,  bent  down  and  opened his suitcase.  The old grey-hairy teacher
screamed  in agony as he expected Phil to reveal yet another new black ball
with  a burning fuse in it.  But instead, Phil fished up a very small glass
tube that seemed completely empty.
  The  teacher  felt  better.   Phil  had  finally  went completely mad and
started to make bombs out of air, he thought.
  Phil held the tube between two fingers and held it close to the teacher's
face (who was still under the desk) and explained that the tube contained a
revolution  in  military boom-boom warfare.  The teacher smiled, nodded and
lied  that  Phil was a true genius while imagining Phil in the local asylum
and a peaceful university.
  'I  have managed to construct a new kind of vacuum!' Phil said and rolled
the tube between his fingers.
  'How nice!' the teacher replied.
  'Inside  this  vacuum  there is a small spot of mass that is greater than
the universe!' Phil said.
  'How nice!' the teacher replied.
  'So,  if  this  vacuum  breaks,  there  will be an explosion that will be
greater than the Big Bang!' Phil said with a slight pride in his voice.
  'Idiot!' the teacher screamed.  'Are you insane?'.
  'Not at all!' Phil said and exposed a huge joy in his face.  'Look!'
  The  teacher  watched  with  fear  how  Phil threw the bottle against the
nearest  wall.   He  understood  from the happy face of Phil that something
nasty was going to happen.
  It happened.  Oh man what a bang!  The absolute infinite mass in the tube
imploded  (together  with the rest of the universe) and exploded.  Phil was
wrong, the explosion was not better than the Big Bang.
  But very close.
  However,  do  not worry about this little intermezzo, dear readers.  Phil
is  gone  and  cannot  hurt  us.   But please let me know if you notice any
fanatic  individual  who  enjoys making bizarre explosives.  Thanks to Phil
our  present  universe  do  exist  and I do not fancy to be a part of a new
bang, if you know what I mean?




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                      Uh oh, the myth is dead again.
          It could be stopped!  DO NOT CALL GURUS DREAM +46-8-DARN
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                                WHAT TO SAY
                      by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu


              "This is what you say, and this is what I hear"




  You do not know what to say? Let me teach you.

  Read on.


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  *  "Has anyone ever told you that you..."


  "Yes, you mother informed me about that when I reamed her ass."

  "Yes, and he was also mentally disturbed."

  "I kill for pleasure. Just wanted you to know that."

  "Heh heh heh..."

  "I can give you the best fuck you have ever had, so be nice to me."


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  *  "How could you say such a thing to him?"


  "Talent."

  "I moved my lips. Like you do now, but in a more suitable manner."

  "I just used the words that were written on his forehead."

  "He begged me to do it."

  "I just wanted him to forget his brain cancer for a few seconds."


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  *  "This is the police! Open up the door!"


  "Later. I am busy flushing down things."

  "Give me your gun through the mailbox as proof!"

  "Idiot! I am the police! YOU open up the door!"

  "Darling, we are going to have pig for dinner!"

  "Onuita yrson hans aber umnasta?"


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  *  "Youngster, your behavior is filthy and indecent!"


  "So is your breath granny."

  "May I have that gold that is in your mouth when you die?"

  "Your children never phone you nowadays I guess?"

  "Your children never comes home for christmas I guess?"

  "I think you have stepped into something. Oh, it was only your grave."


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  *  "Turn down the music!"


  "Naturally. Tomorrow morning."

  "How come that you never complain when my wife grunts loudly in bed?"

  "You call this MUSIC? Your taste really sucks!"

  "Sorry, it is my japanese dog that barks. I call him SONY."

  "What?"


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  *  "The world would look much better if it was ruled by women!"


  "Margret Thatcher."

  "Do you think they got the BALLS for that kind of work?"

  "Sorry, I am not into masochism."

  "Just try. Har har har!"

  "What are you doing here? Get back to the kitchen!"


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  *  "... and that was what I had to say!"


  "I bet you are a BIG Lee Marvin-fan, aren't you?"

  "MY GOD, YOU ARE UGLY!"

  "Are you stoned or something?"

  "Stop pretending! Be yourself!"

  "I am the third reincarnation of Jesus and I can prove it."


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  *  "May I come in?"


  "Sure! We need one more person for our weekly group-sex orgy!"

  "Only if you help me in the search for my mad snake."

  "Not now. I am busy masturbating."

  "Hold on while I go to my bedroom and ask your wife."

  "No."

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  *  "Are you looking for trouble?"


  "Me? No! I do not want to soil my boot knife!"

  "No, but you are looking at it."

  "Actually I do. I must prove for the mafia that I can kill."

  "No, I am just good-looking."

  "Watch it. This floor is very slippery. You might fall."


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  *  "What the fuck is uXu?"


  "Nothing you have to worry about. You must learn to read first."

  "Three letters. U, U and X."

  "You know about uXu? Sorry, but the government demands that I kill you."

  "The re-union of the Beatles."

  "Just say no to drugs! JUST SAY NO! IMBECILE! FOOL! DANCE! SING!"


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  That is all! I hope you feel much wiser now.




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                         PM INC. Veni, vidi, vici.
         20 Class A Cigarettes. CALL THE STASH +46-13-JUSTSAYYES.
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                          Selected fine tobaccos.


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(McCoy)

-=( How to avoid getting hangover )=----------------------------------------

This text is written from both selfexperienced and recommended methods from
various types of people. It's not guaranteed that it will work for you, but
it has work for me and for those people I've heard it from.


-=( While at it )=----------=(1)=-

- The best thing is ofcourse not to drink any alcohol at all. =^)
  But if you do there is some things to think of while doing it to
  increase the day-after effect.

	- Do NOT mix (drink) beer, wine and liquire at the same evening.
           Just hold on to one kind. If you mix, you'll definitly get a
           hangover the next day! Or at least you'll throw up all over the
           toilet. Wine and liquire can be 'acceptable', but not beer and
	   wine or liquire! That's for sure!

	- Avoid liquier with alcohol halt over 40%!
           (Everything over 50% should definitly be classified as drugs.
            ONE drink during dinner is okay, but that's all!)


-=( Before sleeping )=-------=(2)=-

- It's recommended to prepare your sleeping location BEFORE starting
  drinking so you just can 'drop dead' when comming back.

	-  Open a window. Fresh air is the best anti-hangover medicine ever.
           Remember to keep your body warm though, alcohol reduces the
	   capacity of keep warm by itself.

        - Make yourself a bottle of lemonwater. Drink it when you wake
           up. It refills all the loss you've made the evening before.

	- Another thing to do is to eat some toasted bread with salt on it
	   (before sleeping ofcourse). I know, it doesn't sound very appetizing,
           but it does miracle to your upcomminghangover. Drink nothing but
           water to this.

FACT: Hangover is actually nothing but lack of water and salt in your body.
      When drinking a lot of alcohol your body gets rinsed out. If you
      haven't noticed it yet but you are running to the toilet a lot when
      drinking.


-=( Food'n'booze )=----------=(3)=-

- There is several alcoholabsorbent food to eat to feel better.

	- Eat at lest 1 (one) hour before drinking. This makes your stomach
	   more capable to handle you later consuming. Alcohol is NOT good
	   for you stomach walls. It corrodes into the flesh and can cause
           serious wounds. If you eat before you'll have something else
           hitting the alcohol instead of just the stomach wall.

	- All food that contains fat does bind up alcohol. The best thing
	   to eat (if you don't want to feel drunk) is chocolatemouse! Ouch!
           It formaly grabs the alcohol and won't let it away. But this does
	   NOT makes you more alcohol resistant, you'll feel the effect
           after a little while longer instead.

	- Other food types is:
		Milk
		Cream
		and for all swedish guys: Filmjlk

-=( Hangover )=--------------=(4)=-

- If you wake up and find out that you have a hangover it's not much to do
  about it. Well, take some aspirin (I've heard that some persons get a
  headache...strange! =^), drink water, try to eat and if needed - PUKE!
  Do some of the above mentioned things...

-=( Epilogue )=--------------=(5)=-

- I wouldn't recommend anybody to drink, but it's up to him/her if they
  want to do it. Just take it easy and beware of all stupid thing you
  can/will do when drunk!

- I have (now) choosed to live a life without boozing (at least for a long
  time). I'm NOT an alcoholic, but I realised it's not worth boozing around
  and wake up the day after totaly nuked!



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*  - Here And There 1994 - - - - - - dedicated to Inger C. (I miss you!) - *
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	Hello..

	I Bob Slack, as I call myself am a poet.. Well perhaps I am
	that is for you to decide i guess. I write poems for myself
	but have decided to release these thru uXu.

	Any comments should be directed to be via my BBS, the number
	and info for it is in the index file.

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          This is what the Devil does..  You liars! Repent!
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item: 1
Th'

Sitting in his room
Quiet and alone
He roams th'
electronic lands.

Standing on the edge
Wading in the pool
chrimson eyes
and darklit skies.

Running the route
With the parcel
Playing the fool
for the devil.

Running in circles
he will do
Around and around
over and over.

Flying in the sky
whispering a darklit lullaby
singing to the devils
whilst laying in the gravel.

Opening the doors
reality unfolds
the new self stands
on the ashes of the old.

The new one walks
upright with the human
devouring the waves
and deceiving at th' raves.


item: 2
Fall

I have lied for her
I have cried for her
I had pride for her
I died for her

I am in
I am there
I am shun
I dissapear

I find another
I rise up
I fall down under
I fall up another

I find stuff
I look I look
stuff dissapears
stuff reappears

I think
I feel
I fall
I rise

All is as it seems
All is false
everything is true
or kill me


item: 3
Honor

honor is important
truith is honor
yourself is the point
others are stuff

honor amongst thieves
stolen trust
untrust and distrust
unrest

lie to yourself
lie to me
lie to everyone
honor among thieves

be true to yourself
everything will work
be true to yourself
bork bork bork


item: 6
Water proof

underwater
under the seas
dumb waiter
that's where she's

don't be a cump
don't feel the lump
don't make it worse
you need a nurse

run around the walls
run down the halls
breaking down the walls
making late night calls

i could die tomorrow
i could fly tomorrow
i could fry in sorrow
i am underwater

being pulled by the current
being dragged down
down, going under
drown


item: 7
Waiting

waiting here
by my keyboard
waiting here
being bored

sitting here
waiting for a call
sitting here
ready to take a fall

mind spins
brain cringe
nothing
sitting on pins

listening to the tunes
typing stuff
getting the blues
this is tough

monochrome glare
half asleep
blank stare
the black sheep

it will all be over
when the call
it will all be worth
rise again from the fall


item: 8
Bonding

bonding
wraping
pave the way
heeding the trail

cement
quick dry
holds the stance
stand fast

cracks
thoughts disturb
thoughts fold upon themselves
attacking

fear arives
fear changes thought into fear
imagined future
the future is fake

do it
be there
stand fast
have a blast


item: 9
Die robot die

the robot stands there
scanning the horison
searching for more emotion
the murderer of emotions

the human searches
searches the land
searches for emotion
emoton to fill the void

the robot came across a villiage
a villiage of great
a villiage of fate
it was the bait

the human spots his fate
a long lost date
the time is here
the robot draws near

they clash their steel
steel bends and folds
the tales are untold
the human grows old

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