My Manifesto, such as it is

Obviously, many a person has written a manifest, perhaps not on quite a hinkey keyboard as me just now. I’m doing it though.

-Stop strip mining our pop cultural past!

It wasn’t that great to begin with,. Please leave everything behind us alone except as ideations for your future conceptions. I know this is obvious and everyone hits on it, but this time please pay attention. Please?

–Stop hiding actual meaning in metaphorical meaning.

Unless, you know, it is all ‘artsy’. Otherwise, please stop acting like ‘they just don’t get it’. We do get it, we aren’t as stupid as you think. Oddly enough, most of the ‘sheeple’ are awake, they just don’t care. Make them care if you have a message. If you have to say “it isn’t meant for X’ then you don’t have much of a message do you?

–Start trading in actual content value

Don’t go for shocking. In the age of the net everyone knows pig bestiality. Shock doesn’t equate to meaning. Blow the dust off that one and show me something new. And not pig + goatse. Move on. Shocking is tired.

— Start grabbing hold of all your net’ties

Don’t be an anti-art tool on my space while writing heart rending poetry on livejournal (unless it has something to do with Cthulhu) . Be seamless in your Net-Presence.

(note, I said that here first c.Matt Cowger)