[Nettime-bold] Re: G2000Conf2000 Re: totalitarianism in cyberspace?

[Nmherman@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/19/2001 10:00:53 AM Central Daylight Time, 
baseekins@netscape.net writes:

> whoever has 
>  > more outlets, more cable channels, more internet news (think MSNBC 
>  > for one . . . ), can do more spamming and jamming than anyone else.  
>  > Plus, there's a way of including the opposition only to ridicule and 
>  > discredit them that's much more effective than trying to silence them.

I am not tooting my own prestige, only factually mentioning that by using the 
"focus and exponent" method of Genius 2000 I can out-spam and jam all those 
military bitches.  Eryk has seen me do it to the whole artworld.  I am a 
Leviathan there.  I accomplished this essentially by making no compromises 
whatsoever with existing outlets and their ability to deliver an audience.  I 
blasted the location of the audience out of the continuum of history.  I made 
my own network, my own audience.  This is the best thing I've done.  And 
Laura, I'm not boasting.  As soon as ordinary people start pressing the 
artworld and literature world and media world to deal with Genius 2000, they 
will find enormous yet uncoercive power behind their protests.  

Just for kicks and experimentation Laura, send Steve Dietz at the Walker an 
email at steve.dietz@walkerart.org, or David Ross at director@sfmoma.org.  
Ask them for their opinion of Genius 2000 and Max Herman because you are 
considering doing a group show and you want to know if I am artistically 
legitimate and/or substantive, how well-known I am in the artworld, if they 
know of any legitimate art I've done, etc.  

It might seem gratuitous, but the media fortress is cobbled together out of 
lies and liars.  You only need to break one--really break it--and you get a 
flood phenomenon.  They are building levees, and we all know what happens 
when the levee breaks.  People rock once again, for the cup.

>  Looking back on it, I think the best thing that could have happened that 
day 
> would have been a full blown street battle, two blocks down from 1600. 

I've been asking myself, when might it become morally necessary to take 
measures that my mom for example would consider excessive and 
self-destructive.  My mom believes that the Supreme court can be rehabbed in 
a couple of decades etc.  She hates Bush but her peace of mind depends on not 
getting upset about things.  

What would prompt marches like in the 60's, huge, non-violent but totally 
humiliating and damaging gatherings of citizens against the crimes of the 
government?  Perhaps some revelation that Bush had authorized the use of 
chemical weapons in urban areas for "population control."  

At what point did the French Resistance "La Resistance" in WWII decide to 
start fighting the vichy gov't?  What about the conspiracy among saner 
officers to end Hitler's reign early?  Or Trotsky, etc.?  Lots of americans 
have died for freedom, like Patrick Henry, the soldiers of Chief George, 
maybe even Mumia will die for it (although I am contacting him in order to 
make the world a better place for him and all).  

I am a peaceful person who hasn't struck anyone in anger since I was about 
five years old.  I put my time in at school and gave them many chances before 
I decided to humiliate them all.  I believe the Bush cadre, a criminal 
tyrannical minority, can be subdued within the rights guaranteed by the 
constitution.  

But people have to unite and commit; not without individuality and not 
without skepticism, but unite and commit nonetheless.  Genius 2000 is my 
formula of how that can happen.  Unity and co-operation without fascism and 
committment without loss of discernment and voice.

So let's make Bush and his fuckfaces wish they'd all become golf pros.  All 
of history wants us to do it, and by history I mean Brecht, Galileo, Sappho, 
Goldman, Wollstonecraft, Sacco and Vanzetti, Blake, Gandhi, Franklin, 
Lincoln, me, and my mom.

Plus we don't even need bush.  We can make his military bitch Coalman squirm 
right here, keeping Wellstone in, and we can pinch Ventura's ass too.  I'm 
talking Minnesotaland here.  All you people elsewhere, you can do it in your 
town too.  

Plus we got indymedia.  We've got plenty to work with.  The big 
shit-shovelers of the internet, the cognoscenti, are coming around.  We've 
got the best horses ever.  Game Five and final at home, gunning for the cup.  
We can sell G2K hockey pucks for free.

I lost my train of thought which was, because of our notoriety and 
controversial character, us Genius 2000 can become visible, and the ruling 
elites treatment of us equally noticeable or perhaps even moreso.  Like the 
non-violent marches in Selma, we let them beat our asses and that's what 
brings them down.  Beat our asses figuratively that is.  We wave satire 
swords in from of the Governor's Mansion every Saturday for example and give 
away free lemonade and pamphlets, as well as having squirtgun 
shoot-out-the-candles booths, seated massage, and my special grilled cheese 
sandwiches cut in the shape of the letter G.  Broadcast it on my cable show.  
Simple.

I don't care to think about what will happen if this fails.  Frankly, I don't 
think anything else will work.

Max


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