CORRUPT Houston Meeting
May 30, 2008
From a swamp of highways, billboards, neon and idling cars, CORRUPT Houston members converged for a night of conversation and hilarity. Originally, we had a list of "serious topics" we would attempt to discuss in case anyone claimed we weren't hardcore enough, and we brought brooms to show people our street activism, but ultimately we recognized the pomposity of such people and instead sought the real in our lives. This took the form of humorous stories from the bowels of the modern experience.
Not that we were without a "serious" side. After a brief presentations on "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt, and "The Multicultural Mystique: The Liberal Case Against Diversity" by Harriet Baber, a lively debate was had over the merits of different Linux installations and the Crowdist downfall of BSD versions. Finally, we lapsed into a series of anecdotal analyses of the modern meltdown and then resumed the lighthearted socialization that is a hallmark of people who can at least understand each other's views.
Around us, Houston -- the archetype of a modern, car-based city -- ticked on down its way to entropy: thin girls with dyed hair and colored contacts pursued consumer goods and penises with credit lines to support them, day laborers got drunk and rowdy and were hauled off by tight-lipped cops, dopamine-drenched brains talked about universal submission and conspicuous altruism, a million bored above-average intelligences drowned their sorrows in alcohol and entertainment.
Through the efforts of our Houston-area members, sanity was achieved for a few hours, and a resolve to meet again and bring up more of the pragmatic acts we can use to (a) change the system that collectively sways us toward doom and (b) prepare the smart few to survive it, and to have the will to exterminate the rest. Our next meeting is June 27 at the same location.
About HOUSTON
Houston, TX is a humid, freeway-bound, concrete-plated, cockroach-ridden city expanding along the "Los Angeles model" of automobile-dependent city design. Nevertheless, it is one of the most popular destinations for people seeking the American dream, and home of not only the oil industry, but many thousands of food service workers who have indie rock bands named after serial killers.
About CORRUPT
CORRUPT is a thinktank and civilization watchdog that believes a better future for humans will come by embracing organic reality and not institutional or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to get human civilization back on track by separating fantasy from reality, applying the principles of information science, and promoting organization over confusion.
CORRUPT
PO Box 1004
Alief, TX 77411
(512) 553-4544
http://www.CORRUPT.org/