From: bogus@mail.com   
      
   On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 01:08:52 -0000, "goobs"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >my philosophy is simple "live as you wish, fuck the consequences"   
      
   Goobs... if that ain't anarchy what is?   
      
   Aleister Crowley put it as: "Do what thou will shall be the whole of   
   the Law".   
      
   As a literary genre CP is about personal survival in a dead future. As   
   a fashion statement it's a demand to be "looked at" and be considered   
   "k3w1". As a political statement it is laughible.   
      
   I can't imagine anyone in their right mind would *want* to be "k3w1"   
   or be laughed at...   
      
   In regards to the statement i made earlier about "selling out"...   
   Everyone and everything has its price. Whether it is right or wrong.   
   You will seel. The "cyberpunk" character and their creators [Gibson,   
   et al] sold out and moved on when the price was right.   
      
   "But today, it must be admitted that the cyberpunks --   
   SF veterans in or near their forties, patiently refining   
   their craft and cashing their royalty checks -- are no   
   longer a Bohemian underground.  This too is an old story in   
   Bohemia; it is the standard punishment for success.  An   
   underground in the light of day is a contradiction in terms.   
   Respectability does not merely beckon; it actively   
   envelops.  And in this sense,  "cyberpunk" is even deader   
   than Shiner admits."   
   -- Bruce Sterling, "Cyberpunk in the '90's"   
      
   so go be as [un]successful as you wish... of course you *do* have to   
   have something to sell...   
      
   the ded 1   
      
   Have we sold out yet?   
   http://www.accanthology.com/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)