2000. I love the false sense of a new start that a new year brings but a new century, well what do I have to compare that to? Of course, there are Mensa members and Radio Shack employees who will argue that the next year, 2001, is the true start of the new century but if you believe that you’ll be celebrating next year with, well, Mensa members and Radio Shack employees.
If we had been searching for a new enemy to hate around the world we found it with the "Y2K" bug. Here in America it brought back a sense of community. If it hit really bad it would make no allowance for wealth, race or social status. It would affect everyone. People talked about it on the way to work and at the job.
Hardly anyone noticed when the government subtly shifted the focus from Y2K to terrorism. The true threat remains that sooner or later the people who fight for a cause or custom will realize they are living in the dark ages by attacking with the weapons of terrorism. A plane hijacked makes people related to the plane passengers upset but has little effect on the general population. Not being able to get to work, use an ATM machine or have electricity affects many more people. I would not return the bottled water, canned goods or flashlights yet.
It also gave our intelligence community the chance to go to computer systems and weapons systems all over the world and "fix them". Ha ha. Now we know what you got!
Of course, if there was no cable TV or an interruption of the internet from a terrorist attack from within or without I want the reader to know that I would take that as an attack worse than Pearl Harbor and join you in calling for public beheadings of the perps. Perps means perpetrators, by the way.
I guess the internet is my favorite invention of the last century. No matter how stupid, we now have the right all over the world to rant. It doesn’t matter who "owns the means of production" , what religion or political belief you have. I have no "means of production". I use a computer that is like those Barbie computers kids use, yet here the site is, being read by tens of thousands of people all over the world. And we don’t advertise.
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Yet many psychotronic publications despise the internet. One magazine has actually been in the embarrassing position of having to take back every stance they have held on to -- the mag was against Hong Kong movies, against compact discs, against new psychotronic movies, against Japanese animation, against laser discs, against the internet. Now they still rant against the internet as "evil capitalism" --- while they open a store to sell psychotronic goods. Isn’t that capitalism? But the mag has quietly "changed it’s mind " on the other issues- or copied what we were doing 16 years ago, depending on your point of view. It is just as stupid to fight the internet as it was to fight all the other things the magazine was against. Almost as stupid as having celebrities at funny book events hold your publication up and try to convince the reader this ex-celeb actually reads it.
I could also say that it's stupid as hell to interview some extra on a b-movie and then not interview the very same people who hold up the mag for staged press shots, but that probably has more to do with being a bad writer than having a stupid belief system.
That this publication in - its mag and video - now claim to be the underdog, I can only say is funny. For years the lawyers have written letters threatening the naive who dare use a word, THAT THEY DON’T OWN and told them to stop. How is a mag that uses lawyers to falsely threaten people get off on saying they are the underdog? How do I know?
We got one years ago, got a lawyer, sent off a letter and look -- HERE WE ARE.
They have a trademark on THE LOGO AND LOOK of the word, they do not (and better not try to say they do) own the word psychotronic.
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Well, The Bettie Page play I created is being set up to run in cities from Hollywood to Toronto and some surprise locations around the nation over the next two years. And in every city we are going to there are going to be psychotronic events. Add to that the tens of thousands that read us every month-- and it was all made possible by the internet.
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