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Monday, 07:32 pm, 26 January 2004 Australia Day Today is Australia's national holiday. It is one of those rare focal points for my past. My mother called me at work today from Australia - which is a rarity. Those familiar with the narrative of the Log know my feelings about Australia. There were a handful of good experiences - but there was no hope. Most of my peers left Australia. I don't think Australia kept my generation and it certainly didn't keep our hearts. Through the IGDA Intellectual Property Rights Committee, I was talking to an Australian lawyer now based in London. She said (of Australians), 'We're taking over!' My response was 'No, we are just leaving Australia.' It is strange having family in Australia. It produces a rip in my consciousness sometimes. I think - I don't have to deal with that nonsense anymore. But my family does. The loser mentality, the underdog mentality, the forced politicisation of the population, this isn't something that takes my energy anymore. It is liberating to be free from national stigma. It's liberating to not be a criminal if neither party represents my views. With all my free time, no longer spent worrying about nonsense, I think I will invest some time in finishing the mailout. From one indentured servitude to another. A Weekend's Worth of Spam I looked at my Spam directory today. From the weekend, I have the following emails; Legal product for free un Wholesale Sialis would like to know you u Re: i need nothing rmhnaf Newsletter January 2004 weekend-viagra weight |oss (ID:7d5) Games 241919 super viagra ;5ABOI0O @5:;0<0 2 =B5@ Baqar, most popular brand Hello msc Magna RX Patch - Best Re: EZMQCXU, construction Enjoy the power of Master 70% sav1ngs on v1agra Ive tried it, trust me! d let's do it. Get your guaranteed Maste Collection Action Pending Re:Re: sekss redefined Ba Everyone has fun hhbq jkq have you ever played with Your message to me. kkwyi Protect your Family Bachelors, Masters, MBA a Re: WYB, a few moments Hot creamy Goo for You trait monologist suite gi ... Lots of spam removed for sanity!
re[8]: Still not a crime. Controlling Yoof As a teenager, I was fascinated with any group that could command youth effectively. I thought that youth was a huge and powerful group in terms of energy and ability to channel this energy into good. As a society, as most Western societies, I thought this energy was totally wasted. In Malaysia, they had Rakan Muda which was basically a national youth program to get kids into after school activities. I was transfixed by religious groups that could minister to and get youth crowds and I worked with a fanatically Pentecostal rap group in my late teens to try to understand this phenomenon. Until of course they assumed that I had been possessed by the devil. I thought their method was a simple honey trap. I've never gone for bleached blondes. Enough said. Similar to the Pentecostals, I was fascinated by Skinhead groups because they appeared to have a very strong youth culture. In late high school, I saw Skinhead USA with Bill Riccio and this was fascinating to me. Because, although really disturbed, he provided something for the teens that they weren't getting from society (alcohol and tattooing?). I can't find Skinhead USA on video. I have looked around. It isn't a pro-Nazi video. In fact, it makes the group look rather sad and pathetic. But I wondered what had happened to Bill Riccio. http://www.nationalist.org/docs/history/groups.html The site is a trip in itself. It is putting down these neo-Nazis and at the same time, it is a neo-Nazi site. Their claim is that neo-Nazis are harmless vs ethnic related crime. Disturbed. Scholarly Analysis of Mr Frosty Mug I checked out Mr Frosty's site recently and he was talking about meeting the ridiculous American government loan question-mark guy. I studied political science at University. I took a first year course and got sick of the generalisations. I guess the same was true of first year physics too. In anycase, I do feel somewhat alienated by the American Libertarian views. I don't really understand if they are social Darwinists. If they are capital-anarchistic - ie let your money do the voting. I don't see where they are coming from. I also wonder after doing this log thing for a year. To have Mr Frosty link to Barbalet's Log. Does he read Barbalet's Log? Does he see socialist dogma in my writing? I was channel surfing UKHistory recently and they were discussing Machiavellian Italy. The story was basically that artists were valued and treasured by the wealthy for what they produced. I thought of my own musings about miniature painting. I can't extract myself from the financial enemy I once fought so ideologically against. This is what I have become. Maybe I should study the ways of Mr Frosty mug. What would my comrades in Australia say? Happy Australia Day. Good night. [ Previous Log ]
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