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Spectre haunts Europe (slide 1)

• Not Engles and his “GIT issues”
• Communism
• Unholy alliance against it
• Overthrow capitalism

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Socialism (slide 3)

• Abolition of land ownership & inheritance
• Progressive income tax
• Universal education
• Everyone gets a funny hat.

Cool stuff (slide 6)

• No bourgeois families
  • (Teenagers will probably still be angry)
• “Community” of women
  • (Free love)
• Beer for lunch

Inspired by: Publication of Communist Manifesto, Feb. 21, 1848

My origins (slide 2)

• Yes, I am aware of the irony of being born on St. Valentine’s Day.

Population Principle (slide 4)

• the capacity of the Earth to create food is vastly outstripped by human wubblie potential
• yes, the ability of humans to reproduce
• okay, the phrase is sexual procreation, but it’s so embarrassing to say!

Population Principle (slide 5)

In short:

• wubblie potential is exponential
• food supply is linear.

Fewer Humans: A good thing (slide 6)

Wubblie potential is only kept in check by:

• natural causes — accidents and old age
• misery — war, pestilence and famine
• moral restraint
• vice.

Fewer Humans: Vice — further explained (slide 7)

• infanticide
• murder
• contraception
• Nancy boys.

Preferred methods of reducing Wubblie potential (only slide)

• late marriage
• abstinence
• (no “accidental” touching of jumblies either)
• yes, I agree, not fun but necessary, and very British!

Inspired by:
Birthday of Thomas Robert “not much for having fun” Malthus, Feb. 1766. NB: There is no historical evidence that Malthus ever used the phrases “wubblies” or “jumblies”.

Controlling humans (slide 6)

• staring is effective, but you can’t give up
• no matter what, keep staring
• keep with it — don’t take your eyes off them
• eventually they’ll give you food.

Controlling humans (slide 7)

• if staring doesn’t work, start drooling
• copiously.

A Place Called Shangri La (slide 1)

• this place exists, because I have smelled it
• doors slide open automatically
• inside is food, lots and lots of food.

Car etiquette (slide 2)

• tongue out when under 30 mph.

Car etiquette (slide 6)

• drive-by barkings are acceptable, and expected.

Property issues (slide 2)

• if it’s in my mouth, I own it
• if it’s on the ground, and I can get to it, and put it my mouth, I own it
• even if I can’t get to it
• still mine.

Photo by Emdot | More dogs at the Friday Ark

Plot points to explore (slide 1)

1. eroding sense of reality
2. protagonist discovers that someone close to him is secretly:
• robot
• alien
• supernatural being
• brainwashed spy
• hallucination
• dead
• from another time.

Plot points to explore (slide 2)

• a combination of these?

How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (slide 3)

we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by:

• the media
• governments
• big corporations
• religious groups
• political groups…

How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (slide 4)

• what is real?
• we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms:

• do not distrust their motives
• distrust their power

Science (slide 1)

• helps us
• even with the H-bomb lurking about
• science has given us more lives than it has taken.

February 20th, 1974 (slide 1)

• 1 wisdom tooth removal, plus
• 1 sodium pentothal anesthetic, plus
• 1 vesica pisces amulet
• equals multi-verse revealed.

VALIS (slide one)

• Vast Active Living Intelligence System
• (gnostic kind of God)

VALIS (slide two)

Reality:
• is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away.

VALIS (final slide)

• Side benefit of this novel — it will totally freak out Mark A. Rayner.

Inspired by:
Hundreds of novels and stories written by Philip K. Dick, born Dec. 16, 1928.

Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

• English establishment = Yahoos

On Religion

• enough religion to make us hate
• not enough to make us love one another.

A Modest Proposal (1729)

• too many poor Irish
• sell poor babies to rich
• yes, as food.

On Human Nature

• Men are content to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.
• Man is not rational – merely capable of it.

On Government

• without the Consent of the Governed, Government is the very Definition of Slavery
• in Fact, Eleven Men well armed, will certainly subdue one single man in his Shirt.

On Law

• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

On Satire

• mankind’s virtues –> counted upon a few fingers
• his follies and vices are innumerable –> time adds hourly to the heap.

“SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”

Inspired by:
Jonathan Swift’s Birthday (Nov. 30, 1667)