[UA] Thoughts on LA riots of 1992?

[Timothy Toner]

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From: Jason Schneiderman <jadasc at ma.ultranet.com>
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Subject: Re: [UA] Thoughts on LA riots of 1992?


> Now, I've heard at least one counterargument that says that if everything
> is supernaturally influenced, humankind has no control over its own
destiny
> and exist only as a backdrop for the unnatural. I can see the wisdom in
> that. Can we agree to say the question presumes that the scenario (or
> person) *was* affected by the unique traits of the setting and start
there?

BUt one of the unique traits of the setting is that things are seldom as
they seem, PARTICULARLY in regard to things that seem obviously
supernatural.  Vampires are really old inbred Eastern Europeans.  Cattle
mutilations are nasty parasites.  So it goes.  Because there's no royal road
to ascension (emulating a Godwalker tends to be a hit or miss proposition,
with the first steps being easy, but the later steps becoming more and more
difficult to get quite right), things that were obviously Ascensions
probably aren't.  What was so unique about the Naked Goddess' ascension?
Wasn't it just like every other taping?  Did she hit a magic number of
takes, or tapes, or partners, or orgasms?  Alex Abel's trying to find out,
but I think that the closer he gets to that, the farther he gets from the
IC.  After all, the NG wasn't trying to be herself when she ascended--she
was consciously or unconsciously striving towards an ideal.  People trying
to emulate the life of the NG may wake up one morning to find themselves not
WECHBY, but rather a drugged out, sexed out miserable specimen of humanity.

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Timothy Toner / thanatos at interaccess.com
>> You are not contributing to the betterment of mankind.  In fact, you are
a harbinger of the apocalypse. <<
>From _You Are Worthless,_ by Dr. Oswald T. Pratt



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