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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:09:20 EDT
From:         Michael Cammer <cammer@AECOM.YU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: So there will be no 'new ways of thinking' this time & i'll
              shut
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              at Apr 13, 92 11:15 am

Sounds exactly like what I expected this list to be.  No kidding.
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Daniel A. Foss writes:
>
>    This was part of the job. The job took on urgency back in 1988 when Big
> Stanley Aronowitz ("Barbara Ehrenreich's husband") called Ralph Larkin at 3am
> and said, with the Socialist Scholars' Conference one week off, he should call
> me no later than 6am re: Who Would Do The Next Social Upheaval? This since, in
> my & Ralph's own book the Next One was scheduled for 1992 which is exactly
> right as you can see or if you can't see transfer to the Soc Dept of this Univ
> and register for my seminar in Fall.
>    It says in Ch 5 of same book that eggwhite & eggyolk you can't have
 Upheaval
> without "reinterpretation of social reality," pardon the expression, which you
> can't do without whatcha call New Ways of Thinking or at least Ways of
 Thinking
> which Aint Allowed; and when comes the Hour of the Woof the requisite New Ways
> of Thinking can get made up in weeks; knowing one when you sees one takes
> mentat training. "The Mission Of The Macrotheorist," says the wall, "Is Figur-
> ing Out What The Hell Is Going On."
>    ****
>    Contradiction I: If Everything is part of the Job, the there Aint Nothing
> what is just itself.
>    ****
>    In 1967-1969 LSD was part of the Job. On hot summer night 1968 foss was
> with Sue Weisman, rocks in right hands, 3am, staring stupidly at weird colors
> on stainedglass windows of Syracuse Univ Admin Bldg; unspoken deal made: If
> foss threw rock through stainedglass window now at hideousest possible orange,
> Sue Weisman would be foss's True Love for anywhere up to an hour and a half.
 It
> made perfect sense to foss why Sue Weisman wanted foss to throw the first rock
> through diabolically menacing stainedgalss, this overdetermined by foss being
> Without Sin.
>    It made neanwile no sense at all for foss to either throw rock in which
 case
> breakage is attributable to 6-yr-old vandals since by tradition Rebels throw
> rocks in broad dayligh time announced by leaflet or to not throw rock which is
> contrary to Rebek Ten Commandments where Thou Shalt Trash is Six but on third
> hand according to Ten Thou Shalt Not Obey Commandments yet fourth hand (2)
 Thou
> Shalt Love The One You're With where fifth hand just take One Good Look at Sue
> Weisman you never did why you suppose that is you shut up Sue Weisman is Unto
> Me Predestined by cosmic forces of the universe proof: her soul fits exactly
> into mine as designed by the jigsaw puzzle manufacturer which is a subsidiary
> of the headshop conglomerate shut up yerself and <BRRRR> lookit this in the
> Cold Light of Reason did anybody Ever could anybody Ever want Sue Weisman's
> body even Owen hadda do it as parta the job as a southern boy from Mississippi
> whitehood committed to Atonement for Christianity and grad student finding
> astrophysics boring and Sue Weisman threw I Ching Taroted psychoanalyzed
> pussycats bestly astrologized which functionally equivocated astrophysics how
> convenient sorta thing why nobody ever took One Good Look at Sue Weisman....
>    ******
>    Contradiction II: Real authentic actual New Ways of Thinking is scariest
> thing in the universe.
>    ******
>    Just ask Muhammad when was just tired middleaged businessman medium &
> longdistance trucking married Khadija for money then ohno flyboy faggot plays
> trumpet God toldja to do it stupid Say: Command The Good Forbid The Evil!"
 What
> IS he possibly gonna tell the shrink which has not been invented so it's much
> worse, what IS**2 he gonna tell abu-Talib what is Commissioner of Franchises &
> Licenses?
>    ******
>    Inference C[2]I[k+1]: Those who aint been through the changes if they did
> really start it just want yer money; and if they are no good at it they will
> settle for the odd talk show like Robert Anton Wilson.
>    ******
>    Contradiction III: As is consistent with the above Inference, anyone who
> has got New Ways of Thinking never spots it for what it is. The sad cases get
> shot up with Haldol (r) and unthunk; the rest shut up. The rare exceptions
 have
> lucked out and commenced to have thunk New Ways of Thinking when there was
> Social Upheaval on and Rebels come round saying I WANT YOU! or vice versa.
>    ******
>    Contradiction IV: The synergism of two or more stupidities may be an
> Enlightenment.
>    ******
>    Inference C[4]I[k+1]: Or not.
>    ******
>    With you out there the latter applies. LSD we know from. Computers it
> took a little longer. We are in the DATALAB; no daylight is streaming
> through no windows. The losers club is all here has not in fact ever not
> been.
>    "Why are we here, not that I'm not gonna be here if I don't get a
> straight answer."
>    "Dunno, the system made a call on my functions."
>    "You hearda anything else?"
>    "TELL ME I WANNA KNOW IS ANYTHING KNOWN, I MEAN IN THE SCIENTIFIC
> SENSE, ABOUT ANYTHING OUT THERE LET ALONE WHAT IT IS. Assuming of course it's
> something that is, not the other thing."
>    "Me, I just got here early today, is all."
>    ******
>    Contradiction V: All efforts to stimulate or coerce New Ways of Thinking
> will fail.
>    ******
>    Proof P[5]: Or do you think I PLANNED to kill time doing nothing around
> here?
>    ******
>    Contradiction VI: In every social upheaval there is New Ways of Thinking;
> all New Ways of Thinking got nothing like it before in history [forget
 HISTORY]
> by definition. It becomes theoretically possible if not vitally necessary for
> there to exist New Ways of Thinking which nobody out there, none of you, and
> lastmost me - "The sociologist is always the last to know" - are going to know
> it if we see it:
>    **
>    This is capitalism. <"Naw, this is Betelgeuse, har har titters"> In the
> 1960s They sold New Ways of Thinking within hours after they was thunk. With
> this thing infronna me here, no more lead time. Thinkaboutit.
>    ******
>    Daniel's the name, prophecies of doom is the game.
>    Can't scare me cuz:
>    Not only am I a prophet without honor in the United States of America,
>        I am a prophet without honor among prophets without honor.
>    ******
>
> Daniel A. Foss, DFOSS@SBCCVM.BITNET
>                 dfoss@ccvm.sunysb.edu
>
> SUOS CULTORES SCIENTIA CORONAT, Syracuse University motto.
> Their translation: "Knowledge adorns the seeker."
> Preferable translation: "Knowledge makes kings of those who worship it
>    with blind faith."
>


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