The Unplastic News is alive again. We hibernated this winter and overslept. Now we understand the machines better and have them in our home. We hope you are happy. The following Electronic Publication is 10 PAGES LONG. It is made of quotEs. ...this is May... ------->> Spring 1992 on Earth, who has your BrAin ?? <<< we offer this to the acoustic spirit >>> ======================================================== The Unplastic News | frEe ________________________|_______________________________ ISSUE #4: perception --------------------------------------------------------- "According to computer scientist Dr. Jacques Vallee, information is now doubling every 18 months. Nearly four billion years of evolution to get to the first tool. Almost four _million_ years to arrive at the information density of Rome in 1 AD. Only one-and-a-half thousand years for information to double and for the West to arrive at Leonardo, the high point of the Renaissance and the dawning of Protestantism. Two-and-a-half _centuries for the next doubling, the rise of Industrialism, the birth of democracy - ... - only six years for the doubling of information between 1967 and 1973..." Robert Anton Wilson COSMIC TRIGGER 2, 1991 __________________________________________________________ "We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights." -Vice President Dan Quayle "Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, that means we can breathe." -Vice President Dan Quayle --------------------------------------------------------------- "A woman was awarded $18, 000 by a Minot, North Dakota, court for injuries suffered when a bull at an indoor rodeo threw its rider, jumped three 5.5-foot-high restraining fences, stampeded down a hall, burst into the ladies' room, and pinned her against a wall" Scandal Annual 1990 WMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM "Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas." Hunter S. Thompson &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& When you think about death do you loose your breath or do you keep your cool? Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope? Do you think he's a fool? black sabbath 1970 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Truth: IGNORANCE hates knowledge.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz My friend Eric said he was listening to the radio last week and some report spoke of a guy who was running across America to show that everyone can get along. (He set out to find goodness in the hearts of humans) Two guys stopped him on his run. "Hey, are you that guy who is running across America to show that everyone can get along?" The guy said yes and they beat him up, took his money and threw him off a bridge. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))(((((((((((((((((((((((((( "Naomi waved when he turned at the door, then handed me the notes. We'd be stopping at the newspapers, demanding coverage of the senior citizen contingent at the food rally. I organized the notes on the clipboard while she drove. Then I copied over neatly the poem Mother Weeelll had composed on the spot. "Good Book taught me how to live right and resist wrong," it began. "Old folkes forced to eat dog food to live is as wrong as you can get," the other woman contributed. She worked that into the poem too. I figured it'd make a good companion piece to the article about the old folkes and the rally." _The Sea Birds Are Still Alive_ Toni Cade Bambara, 1974 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPY quoted the monthly journal: _Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality_ "A psychiatrist in Manhattan wrote in about a patient who was in the Army and wondered whether his sexual practices made him "different" from other people: 'I like girls, and I certainly enjoy sex with them, but...I like having sex with guys, too...[And] from what I understand, the other guys in my unit never had sex with anybody in their family. I used to have sex with my mother, my father, and sisters and brothers...And I used to have sex with some of the [farm] animals.' When the psychiatrist asked whether the soldier could afford to get private professional help when he went back to civilian life, the patient said, 'Doctor, that's a very personal question.' Ba-dump?" Jamie Malanowski SPY magazine May 1992 &^%$#@#$^%&^*(~`!1@2#3$4%5^6&7*8(9)0_-+=~`!1@2#3$4%5^6&7*8(9)0_-+= "Japanese researchers are working to replace silicon computer chips with a biological substance found in egg whites...[which] can carry electronic information faster than conventional silicon chips. Some scientists believe that combining molecule-size transistors made with biological substances may be the most direct path for technology to mimic the brain's thinking processes." Environtmental News Service as quoted in Edges Magazine, New Planetary Patterns May 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------- "Imagine a Nietzsche with good digestion." Mondo 2000 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "Tom Brokaw has tried to suppress a home video starring his daughter in a parody of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. She is introduced by the head of the Citizens Liberation Front: 'You will meet the golden child of the media, daughter of the chief pig and nightly network pawn, re-educated, ready to fight for the revolution.' Then Andrea Brokaw says, 'I am a child of the media. I have lived a life enslaved by the institution that bore me. Now, I am free.'" The Realist number 119 --------------------------------------------------------------- **Written 4:13 pm May 11, 1992 by gn:peacelink in cdp:pn.alerts ** IRAQ - CIVILIAN DEATHS AN IMPORTANT NEW According to the Italian monthly magazine "PANORAMA DIFESA" (May 1992) specialized in military news, Mrs Elisabeth Osborne, an American state administration employee, has been dismissed because she has revealed unauthorized information about IRAQ civilian deaths during the Gulf war. Mrs Elisabeth Osborne is an employee of the White House(U.S.A.).It seems that 39,612 women and 32,195 children have been killed in that period. The total figure of civilian Deaths is 158,000. Source: Panorama Difesa, May 1992. ************************************************************ This is the prospect that man now faces. Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it. "...We are not, as Spengler supposed, in the situation of Rome at the beginning of the Christian West, but in that of the year 3000 B.C. We open our eyes like prehistoric man, we see a world totally new..." ...the present moment represents a crucial turning point in human history... ...In effect, our century represents The Great Median Strip running down the center of human history. Future Shock Alvin Toffler |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| "Art galleries in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Phoenix... have had formal showings of the artwork of John Wayne Gacy, the notorious mass murderer who was convicted in 1980 of the slayings of thirty-three boys and young men. One gallery owner regretted the showing, saying that 'the people who came were suburban punks who thought serial killing was cool.' A prison spokesman said that Gacy receives eight hundred letters a year." Scandal Annual 1990 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO "...Gotta find a way, a better way..." Nirvana '92 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> MYTH: The European colonists brought progress to the Americas and U.S. aid brings progress to Latin America <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - General D. D. Eisenhower <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Remember the 1992 Intergalactic Rainbow Gathering. The Rainbow Family of Living Light. Coming to a Colorado near you! 21st Year. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` "The rethinking of life as machine has also brought us to the age of biotechnology. As we have noted, with recombinant DNA technology it is now possible to snip, insert, recombine, rearrange, edit, program, and produce human genetic material. We are creating new combinations of living things just as our ancestors were able to combine various inert materials to create the machines of the industrial agree. With this newfound ability to manipulate the very "blueprint" of living organisms, we assume a disturbing new role in the natural scheme of things." "Body Wars" UTNE READER may/june 1992 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible!" Calvin ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()(()))((())))()())(((())()()()()() "When Jimmy Swaggart got busted, he was wearing a T-shirt with the words, "Saddam Hussein, Jesus Loves You." ThE ReAlisT number 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Not until the photograph, Movie and TV did there appear any rival to the insatiable cultural conquest of the phonetic alphabet." Marshall McLuhan ++=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+= a High Times interview with Terence McKenna. Terence "has devoted most of his life exploring [the question,]... Did hallucinogens play a crucial role in human evolution?" HIGH TIMES You're recognized by many as one of the great explorers of the 20th century. You've trekked through the Amazonian jungles and soared through the uncharted regions of the brain, but perhaps your ultimate voyages lie in the future, when humanity has mastered space technology and time travel. What possibilities for travel in these two areas do you foresee, and how do you think these new technologies will affect the future evolution of the human species? TERENCE MCKENNA I suppose most people believe space travel is right around the corner. I certainly hope so. I think we should all learn Russian in anticipation of it, because apparently the US government is incapable of sustaining a space program. The time travel question is more interesting. Possibly the world is experiencing a compression of technological novelty that is going to lead to developments that are very much like what we would imagine time travel to be. We may be closing in on the ability to transmit information forward into the future, and to create an informational domain of communication between various points in time. How this will be done is difficult to imagine, but things like fractal mathematics, superconductiity, and nanotechnology offer new and novel approaches to the realization of these old dreams. We shouldn't assume time travel is impossible simply because it hasn't been done. There's plenty of latitude in the laws of quantum physics to allow for moving information through time in various ways. Apparently you can move information through time, as long as you don't move it through time faster than light. (.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.) PICK YOUR CAR BY YOUR HOROSCOPE SIGN Throw away your consumer guide books & don't bother to kick tires when you go shopping for a car. Aries: Ford Probe Gemini: Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Cancer: Dodge Caravan Leo: Chrysler Fifth Avenue Taurus: Chevy Lumina Virgo: Chevrolet Corsica Libra: Pontiac Bonneville Scorpio: Chevy Caprice Sagittarius: Saturn Coupe Capricorn: Ford Thunderbird Aquarius: Dodge Shadow Pisces: Ford Festiva May Turner SUN april 1992 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The black budget began its sharp ascent in the 1980s. As the Pentagon's budget doubled, the secret budget quadrupled to an estimated $36 billion a year. It financed wonder weapons for World War III, billion-dollar nuclear bombers, and space-based brains to win six-month nuclear wars. And now in the 1990s, though the prospect of nuclear Armageddon between the United States and the Soviet Union has evaporated, the secret projects grind on. Billions are still being spent covertly to build nuclear bombers that can fly at eight times the speed of sound, underground nuclear-war command posts for the president and his peers, nuclear-powered engines for Star Wars rockets, and a hundred more highly classified military projects. Tim Weiner "The Pentagon's Secret Stash" Mother Jones april 1992 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Gilbert Gottfried told a Pee Wee Herman joke: "If masturbation is a crime, I should be on Death Row. To think that by age 14 I was Al Capone." ------------------------------------------------------ Taken from 'Metro' (San Fran Bay area weekly) Edition Jan 2-8 . Vol7, No 44. Without Permission. "Police in Papua, New Guinea, solved the mystery of an arm found underneath a truck in Mt. Hagen when a man contacted police 150 miles away in Lae to report his missing. The man, who had been drinking, recalled driving towards Lae with his right arm hanging out of the window when a truck passed in the opposite direction. Some time later, he felt some pain and noticed his arm wasn't there. Police searched for the missing limb but found nothing until a truck driver noticed the arm beneath his truck and reported it." <>?,./:";'{]{}+=_-)9*7^5$3@1@3%5&78(|\~`~```!223$------- Your groove I do deeply dig. DEEE LITE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ we will write right to you after the rainbow >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<