Monday, June 11, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
New WAMPA Birthdays
Henceforth, all WAMPA members shall voluntarily change their birth-dates to May of 1968.
Be free! You are only 39!
Be free! You are only 39!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
WAMPA Words
The following are a few of the phrases employed by Lloyd Ducal (Joseph Mosconi) to harangue the audience & Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) at the Dialectical Fuss.
Get off the hedonistic treadmill!
Radical Love will not ask: what of Lamartine's “We’ve had enough of poetry”?
Roy, your Vichy warble is becoming unbearable!
Like a close-minded cargo cult.
Good is better than trendy.
Let us now deride the smugness of the times. GUFFAW!
You live in the imaginary past while we live in the vibrant future!
When I hear the word “nihilism” I reach for my textbook on institutionalized theory.
Time to pour the wine of enigmatic nihilism into empty bottles and uncork the vintage of Radical Love!
Roy, Roy, Roy! Stop shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put WAMPA in chains!
“Enigmatic nihilism,” “crypto-fascism,” what’s the difference?
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Dialectical Fuss
Dialectical Fuss was a WAMPA event to determine the future of progressive thought. WAMPISTAs Maximus Kim and Oliver Hall were assigned to represent relevant research positions.
Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism
According to Maximus, all Humanistic propositions of universalist relations are invalid. The desirable form of social relation is subcultural. The subcultures from which we must learn seem Nihilistic from the outside; the embrace of Nihilism, and the scorn for established norms of value, makes these subcultures into laboratories for the values of the future. Seen from within, the Nihilism of many subcultures becomes Enigmatic; the Nihilism is laced with a new diffuse morality that is meaningful to participants. Maxi offers Enigmatic Nihilism as a model for the horizontal spread of difference and variation in values. But does this mean that Maxi argues in favor of (gasp from the audience). . . Tolerance?
Antithesis: Radical Fire of Love
According to Oliver, WAMPA must marshal the power of Intolerance now! Love is a vision of Intolerance that can guide us into action or (better yet) inaction. Love requires only as much from us as we're willing to give, and yet it enables comprehension. Far from being old-fashioned, Love is simply unrealized. . . but is always at the ready to rise Phoenix-like from its deferments. The evasive half-moralities and indefinite licentiousness of Enigmatic Nihilism are, in Oliver's view, a sideshow at best. WAMPA seeks unity, cadres, squads, platoons, societies, bunches, clubs. . . Love is a proven unifying agent to bundle these disparate beings together in one-size-fits-all robes of WAMPA! WAMPA must take on the same old hoo-haa and renovate it for new and specific tasks, and in so doing. . . we shall find it is no hoo-haa at all, but rather that our own inner radiance washes the hog and demands that infinite supplies of tofu-bacon be immediately available to all!
The Coaches: Lloyd Ducal and Roy Lanoy
Lloyd, coaching Oliver, speaking up for Love says: "Do you shake the bloody robe of Revolution in my face?" Later he added: "Do not listen to his words. Look at what is written in his eyes." Roy, coaching Max, says: "This here in my left hand is the Enigma. This here in my right hand is the Nihilism. WATCH WHAT HAPPENS when I put my hands together."
The Synthesis
Michael Smoler stepped up from the audience to synthesize the sides. "We can have the chocolate and the peanut butter. We can have both!" This call for a Radical Nihilism of Enigmatic Love was ignored by the inflamed audience, eager for blood!
The Judgment
The Judgment was two-fold! Judge Ara Shirinyan first asked the audience to vote for Thesis, Antithesis, or Synthesis. Antithesis: Radical Fire of Love won with 6 votes. Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism received 5 votes, whereas Synthesis: Peanut Butter AND Chocolate received 4 votes.
However, Judge Shirinyan disregarded the close vote, instead choosing the winner according to his own personal preference, individual conscience, and dictatorial will! Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism was proclaimed winner, and Maximus Kim was congratulated. Later that evening, Oliver Hall was proclaimed "official Al Gore of WAMPA" by a disgruntled faction in a nearby saloon. This means that Oliver Hall's official title is now: Nature's Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, official "Al Gore" of the Work and Maddening Progress Association.
Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism
According to Maximus, all Humanistic propositions of universalist relations are invalid. The desirable form of social relation is subcultural. The subcultures from which we must learn seem Nihilistic from the outside; the embrace of Nihilism, and the scorn for established norms of value, makes these subcultures into laboratories for the values of the future. Seen from within, the Nihilism of many subcultures becomes Enigmatic; the Nihilism is laced with a new diffuse morality that is meaningful to participants. Maxi offers Enigmatic Nihilism as a model for the horizontal spread of difference and variation in values. But does this mean that Maxi argues in favor of (gasp from the audience). . . Tolerance?
Antithesis: Radical Fire of Love
According to Oliver, WAMPA must marshal the power of Intolerance now! Love is a vision of Intolerance that can guide us into action or (better yet) inaction. Love requires only as much from us as we're willing to give, and yet it enables comprehension. Far from being old-fashioned, Love is simply unrealized. . . but is always at the ready to rise Phoenix-like from its deferments. The evasive half-moralities and indefinite licentiousness of Enigmatic Nihilism are, in Oliver's view, a sideshow at best. WAMPA seeks unity, cadres, squads, platoons, societies, bunches, clubs. . . Love is a proven unifying agent to bundle these disparate beings together in one-size-fits-all robes of WAMPA! WAMPA must take on the same old hoo-haa and renovate it for new and specific tasks, and in so doing. . . we shall find it is no hoo-haa at all, but rather that our own inner radiance washes the hog and demands that infinite supplies of tofu-bacon be immediately available to all!
The Coaches: Lloyd Ducal and Roy Lanoy
Lloyd, coaching Oliver, speaking up for Love says: "Do you shake the bloody robe of Revolution in my face?" Later he added: "Do not listen to his words. Look at what is written in his eyes." Roy, coaching Max, says: "This here in my left hand is the Enigma. This here in my right hand is the Nihilism. WATCH WHAT HAPPENS when I put my hands together."
The Synthesis
Michael Smoler stepped up from the audience to synthesize the sides. "We can have the chocolate and the peanut butter. We can have both!" This call for a Radical Nihilism of Enigmatic Love was ignored by the inflamed audience, eager for blood!
The Judgment
The Judgment was two-fold! Judge Ara Shirinyan first asked the audience to vote for Thesis, Antithesis, or Synthesis. Antithesis: Radical Fire of Love won with 6 votes. Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism received 5 votes, whereas Synthesis: Peanut Butter AND Chocolate received 4 votes.
However, Judge Shirinyan disregarded the close vote, instead choosing the winner according to his own personal preference, individual conscience, and dictatorial will! Thesis: Enigmatic Nihilism was proclaimed winner, and Maximus Kim was congratulated. Later that evening, Oliver Hall was proclaimed "official Al Gore of WAMPA" by a disgruntled faction in a nearby saloon. This means that Oliver Hall's official title is now: Nature's Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, official "Al Gore" of the Work and Maddening Progress Association.
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