Welcome to the tribe. We want to recruit you, because you're so gullible. That is, gullible in the right way. You're skeptical about conventional wisdom, but attracted to unorthodox ideas. An unfailing mark of neophilus. The human race is not divided into the rational and the irrational, as some idealists think. All humans are irrational, but there are two different kinds of irrationality—those who love old ideas and hate and fear new ones, and those who despise old ideas and joyfully embrace new ones: Homo neophobus and Homo neophilus. Neophobus is the original human stock, the stock that hardly changed for the first four million years of human history. Neophilus is the creative mutation that has been popping up at regular intervals during the past million years, giving the race little forward pushes, the kind you give to a wheel to make it spin faster and faster. Neophilus makes a lot of mistakes, but he or she moves. They live life the way it should be lived, ninety-nine percent mistakes and one percent viable mutations.
—Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, The Illuminatus! TrilogyThursday 11 January 2007
11/01: R.I.P. R.A.W.
Robert Anton Wilson died in hospital today.
We have lost one of the most influential men of the 20th century. He was an an inspiration to us all. I hope you're happy wherever you are Bob. Fnord.
Monday 04 September 2006
04/09: A slow death by progress
The Star has a fantastic article written by Ronald Wright - author of A Short History Of Progress. It was to be his address for the 2006 Couchiching Conference, Wedded to Progress: For Better, For Worse was this years theme. He was unable to attend due to personal reasons.
Wright discusses societies perceived advancement and so-called 'progress traps'
Saturday 10 December 2005
10/12: Content Progress
Just a quick update to let you all know whats happeneng behind the scenes. I've been busy writing up a few articles to start filling out the members content area. Hopefully I'll have the three articles I'm writing finished be the end of the week. You can see their progress by logging in, as I'd prefer not to make them totally public just as yet.
I've added a new forum with a bit of content entitled The ETIK Project, click the link to see what it's about. More of a fun activity than anything usefull, but there's no harm in that. As far as the asthetics of the site goes, I've been very slack. Nothings been done. You'll probably see a few headings that just shouldn't be there, and thigs that are just plain out of place. I'll get around to this as soon as I can put my mind to it.
Friday 30 September 2005
30/09: Welcome to Neophilus.net
Following the death of ruinations.com I've had no webspace nor email for a few weeks. So instead of getting James off his arse to pay the bill agian, this is the answer to the problem. Enter neophilus.net - my first real domain all to myself. I've ran a webpage since about 1997, and now, 8 years later it has become necessary to actually pay for a decent service. Growth is a good thing, and hopefully the plans I have for this site will make the cash invested in it worthwhile.
Please bare with me over the next few weeks while I get the place up and running. I've decided to leave the WIP of design live because I simply don't care if you see holes in the initial design - you can point them out to me if you wish and it'll make my job easier. And considering fuck all people know about this i'm not expeciting too much traffic.
Please let me know if you can't see the menu. It should be inside the fractal. I've used flash for the first time ever in the header and I've noticed that the wmode =transparent option may not render on some browsers.
I'm over the angsty black designs I've recently had and considering Chaos In Catastrophe no longer needs to stay with me, I'll be able to use colour! No more black/red only. Will I be able to handle this open spectrum? Only time will tell.
