The *REAL* Neutopia FAQ (archive.doc)
Ed
I was looking for something else in some archive disks and found this,
posted just after Libby, Libby, Libby went bye, bye, bye....
It is long, but it has most of her rather famous quotes, and hence is
worth reading.
ED
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From: Karl "Skatman" Geiger <ka...@titan.oit.umass.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.society.neutopia
Subject: Neutopian FAQ-like Substance
Date: 4 Sep 1995 14:50:30 -0400
Greetings O alt.society.neutopia FAQ-o-philes!
The millenium has come. Doctress Neutopia has finally done something
so stupid as to get her account at Umass turned off. What? what? you
may ask, could be so egregious to cause this turn of events? Was it
o using an ATM as a public toilet?
o harrassing and threatening UMASS helpdesk employees?
o spamming the net asking folks to mailbomb the UMASS computer
center directorship so DN could get more space for her web
pages?
o running nekkid through the middle of campus?
None of the above, dear friends! The final straw was spamming USENET
with copyrighted materials from ClariNet in direct violation of the
copyright notices posted to ClariNet *and* wantonly ignoring the
Copyright: header appearing in *every* message she posted.
Now, don't get your frontal lobes all wrinkled up worrying "What am I
gonna read for fun?" The Doctress has moved to a new location, and, O
Irony of Ironies, can be reached at
Your humble narrator and many other Monster Truck Neutopians have been
saying to DN for months "get your own account" in response to her
kvetchings about UMASS OIT. Well, now it's time, little bird, to
fledge. Fly! You are free at last! Go where the winds take you.
Goddess speed!
* * *
Before we get to the Quote of the Week, we have the Doctress Neutopia
"Best Dis of the Week", courtesy of Discord:
P.S. Peter, I often wonder why in the world do you post to
alt.society.neutopia since you hate my ideas so much? Why
not put me in a kill filter and forget that I am alive?
That would be easy enough for you. Since you have remained
here for more than a year, I have to wonder if the
administration is paying you to watch me. Are you really
working for the FBI or the NSA? After all, you do post to
this group while you are working for the state, do you not?
Clearly, we're in full blown Phase III: Paranoia, and may be entering
Phase IV: The Crash.
Now, by popular demand, we bring you the Doctress Neutopia Quote of
the Week. There were so many submissions, all of them good, it was
hard to choose. The winning quote was, however, the overwhelming
favorite of the newsgroup; at least five different writers nominated
it for inclusion.
What kind of man/woman I need to satisfy my passionate sexuality
also came up. Do I need someone who I can dominate? I didn't
think so, but I didn't need someone who was going to dominate me
either. It seems that what I need is equality with me having the
final word.
Equality. "You keep on using that word. I do not think you know what
it means."
Other DNQotW suggestions, and there been several excellent, have been
hidden like raisins in a plum pudding within the "Quotable Quotes"
section. Enjoy.
* * *
As always, I ask you to please direct questions, queries, comments,
and corrections to the newsgroup so that I may incorporate them in
future editions. The public forum of the net will out the truths
needed -- and, in keeping with the Doctress's ideals, I arrogate to
myself the duty to decide what flavor of "truth" is selected for
inclusion.
I remain, humbly,
Karl "Scatman" Chief Monster Truck Neutopian Sanitation Engineer
* Making Life Better and Better, One Shovelful at a Time *
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--- ALT.SOCIETY.NEUTOPIA FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ---
Congratulations, Dear Reader. You have stepped (with both feet, I
might add) deeply into some of the squishiest, stickiest, stinkiest
parts of the net, and further, chance a besmearching by one of the
net's lesser, but kookier, doo-doo daubers: Doctress Neutopia.
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Table of Contents
I. WHO IS "DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA"?
II. HOW DID ALT.SOCIETY.NEUTOPIA ARISE?
III. YOU'RE PULLING MY LEG, AREN'T YOU?
IV. TESTAMONIALS TO THE DOCTRESS'S EXISTENCE
V. DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA - A LIFE (Curriculum Vitae)
VI. THE FLESHMEET IN A NUTSHELL
VII. FAILED GAIA MESSIAHS
VIII. HOW TO BECOME A GAIA MESSIAH
IX. MONSTER TRUCK NEUTOPIANS - YOUR NAME IN SOUL-CLEANSING ASCII HERE
X. HERESIES
XI. ARCHIVES AND MUDS
XII. QUOTABLE QUOTES
XIII. KEY CONCEPTS TO KNOW
XIV. NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
XV. THE FIVE STAGES OF NEUTOPIA'S PSYCHO-CYCLE
XVI. EPILOG
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I. WHO IS "DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA"?
Elizabeth ("Libby") Hubbard is "Doctress Neutopia". Libby is the
daughter of a well-to-do North Carolina wood-products magnate, has a
younger sibling, Ada, and seems to resent her family's power, wealth,
and history while apparently relying on its continuing munificence for
her livelyhood. Libby is described to be caucasian, about 38 years of
age, and unable to bear children. Having found her feminist and
political agitations no welcome in NC, Libby moved north to Amherst,
enrolled in the University of Massachusetts where she earned a BA in
"Art and Utopia" a masters in Future Studies, and convinced the
institution to grant her an Ed.D. also in "Future Studies", an act so
traumatic that the school has reportedly abandoned the program.
Libby constructed "Doctress Neutopia" to spread her "lovolutionary"
(love+revolution) message of a better world, a utopia she seems to
have based on a mish-mash of populist ecology, eco-feminism, ESP,
Solerian arcologies, personification of Margulis and Lovelock's Gaia,
kindergarten Marxism, and sexual metaphor (massgasms, ideal mates).
Victim feminism, extreme narcissism, a fanatical desire for control,
homophobia, and a genuine envy/hatred of her father seem to form the
rather nasty subtext of this brave new world.
As to the origins of the moniker itself, the Doctress says:
My name evolved over time. First I realized that Neutopia
was the cure for many (if not all) of societies ancient
social problems. So that is when I picked up doctor. I
wanted Doctor Neutopia to go on my diploma. However, the
Dean said that would not be possible because I was not a
doctor yet and so I couldn't call myself a doctor. So a
friend of mine told me to change the spelling of doctor to
out wit the Dean. I was in the library at the time and
there was an old Webester's dictionary beside me. For some
odd reason I looked up the word witch. I read through the
defination and there was the term "witch doctress." That
was the word I needed. I changed my name to Doctress
Neutopia and the Dean could say nothing!
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II. HOW DID ALT.SOCIETY.NEUTOPIA ARISE?
For several years, the Doctress has posted her lengthy, disjointed
screeds across net newsgroups willy-nilly, much to the irritation and
annoyance of those attempting to use those groups for their intended
purposes. In June 1994, Josh Geller <jos...@dee.retix.com> created a
news group for the Doctress -- alt.society.neutopia -- in hopes it
would absorb and segregate the bulk of Libby's copious cacaphony from
the rest of the net, and alt.magick in particular. Since it's
possible to post to multiple newsgroups in a single message, this
attempt has met with limited success.
A few souls, such as your humble narrator, reacted with a sharp
"Kule!" when the existence of the newsgroup popped up in our
software's subscription lists. We've happily engaged in lighthearted
debate -- or merely baiting -- Doctress Neutopia, some seriously, some
playfully, ever since. The net result (pun intended) has been to
occupy her attention otherwise, cutting down on the general amount of
garbage Neutopian postings to "real" newsgroups while providing the
group's readers the same sort of sophomoric entertainment normally
afforded by poking pointy things at a small but needle-toothed animal.
Many folks independently organized their writings around the theme of
Monster Truck Neutopia, an antithesis to Neutopia (or OrthoNeutopia as
MTNers call it), first proposed by Lupus Yonderboy back in late July
1994.
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III. YOU'RE PULLING MY LEG, AREN'T YOU?
The prism of the net casts truth into weird fractals. Is "Doctress
Neutopia" a real person? Obviously not. Is she serious? Can't tell.
Writers in alt.society.neutopia have posited that she's purposefully
flamebaiting (sending out messages expecting to start arguments) or
trolling (posting disinformation designed to make the person who
corrects the original poster look foolish); she's a performance
artist; she's an Eliza-like AI; she's a long-running sociology or
psychology experiment; and, perhaps most frequently, that she's
sincere. Other writers claim to have met her (Ted Reiss of Xville),
or know her from her reported public actions at U. Mass Amherst. The
rest of us know the Doctress intimately (in some ways far too
intimately and detailedly, alas) but only from her net postings and
her private email which she forwards and posts with complete disregard
for the privacy and copy rights of her correspondents.
But, really now, who cares so long as it's fun?
Be warned, Gentle Reader: You are either for Doctress Neutopia or
agin' her. Do as she asks and you're for her; cross her or look at
her breasts, even slightly, and you're an enemy of womyn, the
lovolution, the planet, and the future. What you *write* is
immaterial -- what you *think* (or rather, what Doctress thinks you
think) is paramount. As always, when she writes what she thinks you
think, she reveals her inmost truths. Best cover your head with metal
foil and think happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts lest The
Doctress psi-blast you with a massgasm that'll leave your keyboard
stickier than Geertjan Wielenga's pajamas.
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IV. TESTAMONIALS TO THE DOCTRESS'S EXISTENCE
[This was corrupted on the disk and I have chopped it]
From _Newsweek_:
You can see Doctress Neutopia in _Newsweek_ November 28, 1994
(vol. 124, no. 22), page 55, in the feature article section "The
Search for the Sacred". Article text:
A self-described futurist in Amherst, Mass., who calls herself
Doctress Neutopia, has created her own online religion.
The photo caption reads "GUIDING LIGHTS: 'Doctress Neutopia' founded
a religion on the Internet."
[snip]
From: University of Massachusetts Library Catalog (courtesy of Steven
Meece <sme...@chat.carleton.ca>):
AUTHOR Neutopia, Doctress, 1956-
TITLE Gaia, the planetary religion : the sacred marriage of art and
science / by Doctress Neutopia.
PUBLISHER 1994.
PHYS DESCR ix, 305 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.
NOTE Typescript.
Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-305)
Another copy in Archives.
Another copy: Microfilm 9870.
SUBJECT Gaia hypothesis.
Utopias.
x LOCATION CALL # STATUS
x UM/Univ Lib LD3234.M267 1994 .N4975 DUE 04-01-95
[snip]
From: neut...@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Doctress Neutopia)
Ok people, I am real. And I have industrial injuries in my neck,
back, and hands from working at this machine so much. But the
revolution/lovolution must happen if we are to be free of the
prison walls of torture and money.
Please contact me any time you want to, anyone.
I am open to intelligent conversation.
My address is: Doctress Neutopia
1089 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 549-3874
I wish I could become part of oppositional movement for planetary justice
and compassion. Lets put the lovolution of TV!
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V. DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA - A LIFE (Curriculum Vitae)
Still unconvinced? Really now, no one in his or her right mind can
make this kind of stuff up. Without further ado, below please find
Doctress Neutopia's CV, as published in her 29 June 1995 posting "JERK
OF THE WEEK".
DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA
aka Libby Hubbard
Born into a Southern family in 1956, it took me a long time to
develop myself into a creative thinker. Stupefied by mother-
dominated childcare, patriarchal education, commercial television, and
cutthroat peer pressure, for years I had no idea of my purpose here on
Earth in this lifetime. Nevertheless, my innate personality could not
be squashed. I emerged from oblivion by becoming conscious of the
oppressive power structures which were suppressing my will to
self-knowledge and public recognition.
After realizing that I had the desire to become a poetess and an
artist, I began asking the philosophic questions of art and poetry:
What is life? What is love? What is the meaning of existence? What
is the Good World? These questions lead me to seek the wisdom of
Utopian literature and models of future culture based on peace and
love. Gradually, I gained the self-esteem necessary to create my own
vision of utopia, what I call Neutopia. However, the "what is love"
question has been the most difficult question to address because, in
Western Civilization romantic love is full of seduction and deception,
with dreams of home ownership and mother-centered childcare. After
writing an essay "Motherhood and Childrearing in Utopia," I became a
full-fledged feminist, devoted to the liberation of women from
domesticity. My dissertation, GAIA: THE PLANETARY RELIGION, THE
SACRED MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE is a work which presents us with a
feminist theory of architecture, freeing us from the nuclear family
home.
Since true lovers share the other's supra-ego, my dreams of love
lead me to contemplate my ideal lover. It seemed clear to me that my
ideal lover could not love me if I did not know my unique identity.
After studying Carl Jung's theory of archetypes, I began to realize
that what I was trying to do with my life was to break out of the old
archetypal pattern of what society viewed as a good woman: the
unconditional lover of the loyal wife and mother. This break was
necessary in order for me to reach a new symbolic identity with the
World Soul. I realized that throughout the patriarchal era, the wise
woman, the woman who confronts death, not only on the personal level,
but the death of the patriarchal culture, has been misunderstood and
hated. She has been called a "witch" and a "hag" and she has been
totally mistreated. In thousands of cases throughout history, she was
killed and tortured for her religious beliefs. I began to see my
prophetic role and the Neutopian Vision as our hope for global
salvation.
For decades, I attempted to give my Neutopian vision to the world
with little success. What I am doing by introducing an ideology of
true love which has the power to create a new ecocity design is
against the foundations of Western Civilization. It is apparent that
those who own the press control the press. Freedom of the press is
but another illusion. How am I ever going to reach the public? After
acquiring a personal computer and learning the skills required to know
how to log into the Internet through a University of Massachusetts
account, the interactive world of Cyberspace opened up to me.
Cyberspace seems to be my salvation. I have now found a place where I
can deliver my message, a place to dialogue with others on the Gaia
World View.
Biographical Information
Born: March 14, 1956. Greensboro, North Carolina
Education: B.A., Art and Utopia, University Without Walls
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986.
M.Ed., in Future Studies, UMass/Amherst, 1988.
Doctorate in Education, UMass/Amherst, 1994.
Dissertation Title: GAIA, THE PLANETARY RELIGION: THE SACRED
MARRIAGE OF ART AND SCIENCE.
Current Address: 1089 North Pleasant St., Amherst, Ma. 01002
Telephone: (413) 549-4336
Solo Exhibitions
1994 "The Cap and Gown Show" Graduate Lounge, UMASS
1992 "New York City Series" Haymarket Cafe, Northampton, Ma.
1990 "Planet Water: Conceptional Art by Doctor Neutopia"
Student Union Gallery
1989 "Beyond Anti-Biotics" University Health Services Gallery,
UMass, Amherst.
1988 "Ideas from the Unknown" Center for the Arts, Northampton,
Ma.
1988 exhibit of watercolors in Bread and Circus Whole Foods
Supermarket Cafe, Hadley, Ma.
1985 "Neutopian Images & Future Art" (Two person show) Student
Union Art Gallery, UMass.
1982 "Visionary Art" Student Union Art Gallery, UMass.
1981 "Art Against Oil" High Point Public Library
1980 "Art for the 21St Century" Greensboro Public Library
Group Exhibitions
1993 "Mustache of Mary" Valley Women Artists Members Show
1992 "Violence" Valley Women Artists Members Show
1990 VWA/WCA Annual Juried Exhibition Howardena Pindell Juror
1989 "May Day, M'Aidez!" an audiovisual installation
1988 "Celebrating the Outrageous" Valley Women Artists Members
Show, Hampshire College, Amherst
1988 "Let's Leave This Planet!" in honor of International
Women's Week, Wheeler Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
1987 "Student Protest in the 80's", curated by Libby Hubbard.
Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1986 Paper Tiger, Centrum Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst.
1985 "Emerging Artists Show," Greensboro Artist League, Greensboro,
North Carolina
1985 "Art and Feminism," Student Union Art Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
1985 "Art Against Apartheid," University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1984 "Zero Capacity," Student Union Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
1983, '84, '85, '86, '87, Traprock Peace Center Show and Art
Auction, Thorne's Market Art Gallery, Northampton
1982 Fort Point Channel exhibition, Boston, Ma.
Auction, Thorne's Market Art Gallery, Northampton
1982 "Art is for Viewing" Franklin Dining Commons, UMass
1982 "Artists for the Nuclear Freeze," Thorne's Market, Northampton
Lecture and Slide Shows:
1995 Slide show entitled, "The Settlement Hierarchy of South
Africa: How Can We Move Beyond Western Culture?"
Cultural Cartographies: Mapping the Postcolonial Moment
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
1994 Slide show entitled, "From the Anasazi Ruins to Biosphere 2,
Arizona's Utopias and Dystopias"
Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
1994 Presenter at "The 1994 Alternative Media/Do-It-
Yourself/Culture Conference"
1993 Slide show entitled, "The Gaia World View,"
World Future Society Conference, Washington, D.C.
1992 Panelist, "What is Modern?" an interdisciplinary conference
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1991 Visiting Artist/Futurist, "Visualize Neutopia"
Deerfield Elementary Schools, Deerfield, MA
1990 Chicopee Centennial Activity "Looking Forward"
Create the Chicopee of 2090 Panelist
Edward Bellamy Junior High School
1990 "Shifting Power" Women's Caucus For Art National
Convention panelist on "Maquettes for the Future" in NYC
1989 "Future View: The 1990's and Beyond" World Future Society
Conference, Washington, D.C. Panelist
1989 Valley Women Artists/ WCA Panel discussion "Art and Healing"
Hampshire College, Amherst, Ma.
1987 Slide show entitled, "A Glimpse of Paradise" given at the
World Future Society Conference on Education, Cambridge, Mass.
Publications by and about Doctress Neutopia
1995 Article by Kevin Hodgson, "Amherst futurist discovers
spirituality, love on Internet" Springfield Union-News,
January 3rd
1994 Article by Christopher Hassett, "Student uses Internet to
spread religious ideas" Massachusetts Daily Collegian,
December 9th
1994 Article by Deirdre Galvin, Doctress Neutopia: Love blooms in
Cyberspace" Amherst Bulletin, December 2nd
1994 Photo in Newsweek Magazine and mentioned in an article
entitled, "The Search for the Sacred: America's Quest for
Spiritual Meaning." November 28th
1994 mentioned in Wired Magazine December Issue under netsurfing
1994 Mondo 2000 letter: "The Feminization of Cyberspace"
1994 The Liberator Essay: "The Exit Meeting"
1993 Quoted in an article criticizing Ross Perot, Daily Hampshire
Gazette, June 14th
1993 The Natural Sovereignty of Womankind published by
Neutopian Time and Space
1993 poems in Burning Redcoats!
1992-1994 Graduate Voice Essays: "The Union of Action and Love,"
"Big Brother is still Watching", "No Future in Grants for
Future Research", "The Greatest Threat" poem: "The Garden of
Love."
1991 The Paper poem, "He Walked Out of the Woods"
1990 Radical Solutions, drawings published
[more lost data]
VI. THE FLESHMEET IN A NUTSHELL
Long awaited and much anticipated, Doctress Neutopia finally flew to
South Africa to meet Geertjan Wielenga on February 14. Here, in her
own words (whose else would they be) is the fallout.
Fri, 3 Mar 1995 10:32:00 GMT
Dear Jerry:
I have been thinking about our meeting yesterday afternoon.
When I was there, you asked me why I came back after you had
declared that "our essences are not the same." You
announced that you were a believer in Jesus Christ as your
personal savior and that I was a disbeliever, that the
Afrikaners call the "kaffirs."
So why did I come back? Was it to take more of your callous
abuse? Jerry you should have been honest with me. Didn't
you know that I am not a Christian and my goal is to
revolutionize Christianity and all the other patriarchal
religions to an ecofeminist world view? Why did you lead me
into believing that *you loved me* when your Christian faith
would not allow you to love a "kaffir" like myself? Were
you totally oblivious to my theory of the Gaia Messiah? I
seriously question if you read and comprehended anything
that I sent to you. It is quite obvious that you had not
studied my dissertation Gaia: The Planetary Religion, the
Sacred Marriage of Art and Science. How stupid of me! I
just assumed you had respected me enough to had read it and
so understood my feminist thealogy (thea=Goddess). I
thought you comprehended by theory proving that Christianity
is founded on the incestuous relationship between Jesus and
Mary and how the task of the hero is to break through it in
order to achieve the sexual happiness of loving on'es
eternal soulmate. In my dissertation I have also proven
that the core of Christianity is corrupt and misogynist. It
is *not* the religion (belief system) that has the knowledge
needed to save the world.
[...]
I don't want to be a victim of your apathetic abuse of me
for another moment. So I am requesting that you *not* write
me or to alt.society. neutopia anymore. I need to heal
from your fake love and the best way is for me to move our
tragic relationship behind me. So please don't write back
and unsubscribe from alt.society.neutopia. I came to Africa
searching for the sacred meaning behind your words. I will
return to America knowing that your words carry no weight.
Thank the Goddess that I am now aware that Geertjan Wielenga
possesses no great passion for the essence of Doctress
Neutopia.
So another chapter closes in my Saga!
Farewell Wielenga
Shall we never meet in Cyberspace or in real life again
in this world or on worlds to come!
Doctress Neutopia
Fri, 3 Mar 1995 10:53:49 GMT
Hello friends,
I am in the process of healing myself from Geertjan. It is
been a very sad experience to find out that my cyberlove of
many moons really wanted nothing to do with me. I am at the
University of Natal in Durban right now, about an hour way
from Geertjan. But I have not talked with Geertjan in days.
He has the phone number of John Buckley in Pinetown where I
am staying. But he has not called and I don't believe he
ever will, not even to wish me farewell and have a good
life. So what happened? I guess I will never know the
entire story since Geertjan is refusing to communicate with
me anymore. I get the feeling that really Geertjan hated me
or either he is a closet homosexual. Whatever it was, he
wanted to carry on no dialog or even be in the same room
with me. The last time he saw me he didn't even want to
shake my hand goodbye. How can a so call Christian be so
cruel and cold? Well, I guess that is the way of their
religion! The sad thing is that he didn't even give me a
chance to get to know him.
Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:05:49 GMT
[...]
After we made love for the third and final time, he accused
me of raping him. He said that he was going to take me to
court for rape! The funny thing about it was that he was
serious!
The final time we where in the computer room, he told me to
never give up on the dream. However, his was the Christian
dream of The Kingdom of God and of course my in Neutopia. I
told him then that we were not working on the same level of
understanding.
The pain hurts, people. It really, really hurts. I promised
John Buckley, the man who has befriended me since Geertjan
rejected me, make me swear to him that I wouldn't write
Geertjan an email while I was here today. It has been very
difficult to not write him. But I have stuck to my promise.
John is here now. So I will write again when I get back to
North Carolina.
Neutopia
Tue 13 Mar 1995
We have been corresponding again. More about it later after
I figure out what is going on. He could be one of the most
skillful con artists on the Net. I am trying to figure it
out now.
[...]
What are the webs of lies Geertjan is weaving?
Why is he doing this?
Why doesn't he could forward and make a public appearance?
Why is he scared of showing us his soul?
Tue Mar 21 1995
I think there was something basically racist about Gearjam
because there was something basically sexist about Gearjam.
He lies to women. He tells then he loves them when he
really has no love in his heart. Look, he didn't even know
how to be a friend to me while I was a 20 minute walk away
from his room. It seemed that he was too afraid to walk the
street because he might be attacked by a black criminal, so
he felt he had to take a taxi. Then he complained to me
about the cost of the taxi as I walked the dangerous street
alone at night.
He told me that we have different strategies of
revolutionary activities. He wants to work with
establishment organizations for human rights or
environmental protection. He doesn't want to *think* in a
neu non-sexist, racist way. Look, he believes in the Law of
God and the Law of God protects the people with money and
power. He even treated me like a prostitute accept for the
fact that it cost me 3,000 dollars to fuck him!
[...]
I wouldn't be surprised it Gearjam becomes a commercial
lawyer in a year or two. After all, he told me he is taking
courses in commerical law so "that he will have something to
fall back on" if the revolution does not succeed. Yes,
Gearjam is pride of his Dutch passport and his European
roots!
Mon 27 Mar 1995
The role missionaries have played in Christiandom of the
world also came up, so, of course, my mind couldn't help but
think of Geertjan. It is still very difficult for me to
believe how cold he was to me when I met him, but after
realizing how the Christians have destroyed the world, I
guess it isn't that difficult to believe! Those Christian
"lovers" really know how to kill people and their culture!
I wonder how many lifetimes of practice at killing women's
hearts Geertjan has in his past?
Sat 15 Apr 1995
The Christians said that God is love, but they have no idea
as to how to love the Goddess. Look at the way Geertjan
loved me. He couldn't. He couldn't love Goddess Neutopia.
He had been trained to ignore Her and be cold and mean to
Her. The soul of genius is love. So the next great genius
is the man who knows how to love Her.
Sun Jun 25 1995
I have had one cyberlover. After corresponding for seven
months with him, I went to meet him in South Africa at his
invitation. When I got there, I quickly learned that he had
absolutely no interest in me. He hadn't even told his
friends or family about me. He even had a girlfriend who he
never informed me about. All the love he said he had for me
was a goddamned lie. I should have known not to trust a
student of law!
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VII. ERSTWHILE GAIA MESSIAHS
With the deflation of Geertjan Wielenga's shot at Gaia Messiah, we're
putting a special section to honor them all, past and present.
1. Thomas Jefferson (in a past life).
Threw Doctress Neutopia over for a slave. Result: wrote intellectual
and spiritual philosophy for the most powerful and prosperous nation
on the planet, then died.
2. Dorion Sagan
Ignored Neutopia's pleas to promulgate Neutopian thought through
his parents (Lynn Margulis and Carl Sagan) auspices. Result: dead
bird stuffed in mailbox, and wrote article that appeared in _Wired_.
3. Ted Reiss
Looked at Doctress Neutopia's breasts one too many times. Result:
Accusing of coopting potential Neutopians into Xville, which is
funny as hell since Xville is based on Jeffersonian and libertarian
ideals of free association.
4. Rodeo Boy
Disgusted by futon's condition. Maintains three liasons is enough
for Neutopia to sour on anyone -- kinda like baseball. Result: now
happily posts to alt.society.neutopia, eats barbecue bare-handed, and
in general enjoys the fruits of Monster Truck Neutopia.
5. Geertjan Wielenga
Made love with DN 3 times; the third time tried to claim DN raped
him. Failed to "surrender to my [Doctress Neutopia's] love, [to be]
a man with enough self-worth and integrity who will turn around and
honor my Wisdom." Result: Neutopia has requested he never send her
e-mail or post to alt.society.neutopia; may end up becoming a lawyer.
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VIII. HOW TO BECOME A GAIA MESSIAH
From: kgo...@efn.org (Kevin Gowen)
TOP SIXTEEN PICKUP LINES GUARANTEED TO WORK ON DOCTRESS NEUTOPIA
16. Your arcology or mine?
15. Let's demonstrate the phallic nature of the Washington Monument by
having sex in the Reflecting Pool.
14. I was Thomas Jefferson in a past life.
13. Your daddy said we shouldn't do this.
12. The lovolution will only come as fast as you do.
11. Don't worry; I'm not a lesbian.
10. I'm not Geertjan Wielenga, either.
9. We need to celebrate our liberation from the oppressive patriarchy by
fucking like crazed weasels.
8. I promise I won't look at your breasts.
7. Gaia Messiah? I got a little Gaia Messiah right here, if you know what
I mean.
6. Hey, why don't you call Dame Phyllis over and we'll make it a threesome?
5. We'll flip a coin. Heads, I get to have sex with you. Tails, you get
to have sex with me.
4. My father is a famous astronomer.
3. Hey Libby, did you know that queen bees sit around all day naked?
2. Build an HTML document for you?
1. Hi. Let's fuck.
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X. HERESIES and SUBGROUPS
Or is that "Hera-sees"? "Farah-sees?" Whatever. Any proper religion
needs 'em just to keep the orthodoxy's wits sharp. Beyond the Monster
Truck Neutopians we have...
A. The Psi Corps
The Psi Corps doesn't really exist except in our imaginations and on
the TV series "Babylon 5." For purposes of this discussion, however,
we will define it here as, "a secret police force made up of persons
with telepathic powers."
One of the nastier aspects of OrthoNeutopia is the Doctress' theory as
to what will happen to those who remain unhappy and discontented after
the lovolution. Such people are not criminals, merely mentally ill,
and as such the Doctress would give them over to Neutopian telepaths
called "Healers," who would scrutinize their "dreamwork" and find just
what it is that's causing these poor unenlightened souls to think such
bad thoughts, presumably so said thoughts can be altered and/or
excised.
In patriarchal times, such a thing would have been called
"brainwashing." In George Orwell's book _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ (a
must for anyone wishing to understand Neutopia), much the same thing
is accomplished by strapping the person's face to a cage filled with
hungry rats. But rats are smelly, messy creatures who won't be
allowed in the arcology because the [data lost]
Contributions which the Church of Neutopia without Neutopia has made
to Monster Truck philosophy include the replacement of the word
"Crone" with the word "Gammer" and the addition of "Abacination" to
our vocabulary.
(Contributed by 'Jesse Garon' <gri...@primenet.com>)
3. Nuclear Family Neutopia
Just what is a nuclear family? Here's Doctress Neutopia's thoughts:
[A] patriarchal/matriarchal co-dependent ideology built the
structures of our oppression. The pattern of nuclear family
development *is* the problem. The solution is a neu
communal architecture, but we now are in need of a social
architecture to provide us with a neu model of female/male,
community relationship. Beware of the structures around you
and how they shape your thoughts and memories.
Some of us, including Your Humble Narrator, *enjoy* living in a
nuclear family. Too bad "choice" this choice is unavailable in
Neutopia.
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XI. ARCHIVES and MUDs
The Doctress her-own-self has a home page. Visit it at
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~neutopia
Be prepared to wait for the images to download if you're on a slow
link. Running with imageload off is recommended.
Ted Reiss's Xville archives are long gone, alas.
Try
http://www.gate.net/~amh/neutopia.html
Andrew's inherited some of the Neutopia stuff from Xville. Also see
Jorn Barger's "Bozo Wisdom" page
http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/bozos.html
for Neutopiana and John_-_Winston.
The original text of the Jefferson Dream, MSTied by Doug Lathrop, is in
the "Great Moment in Troquisma" section of the Troquista home page, or you
can get at it directly:
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ldevlin/MSTie_Jefferson.txt
Ms. Devlin has also been archiving all the recipes posted.
All this, the Gallery of Phallic Architecture, and MORE is at the
Troquista home page:
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ldevlin/troquista.html
In addition to the most excellent Troquista page, Doug Lathrop now
has a MTN page of my own up and running at
http://www.primenet.com/~lathrop/monster.html
in case anyone wants to check it out.
Monster Truck MOOtopia (open 24 hours a day)? Directions for getting
there are simple:
(1) telnet lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888
(2) connect guest (unless you already have a LambdaMOO character)
(3) @go #71506
Anyone is welcome to add onto the MOOtopia (there's even an arcology
for OrthoNeuts). Just send MOOmail to Lexi or Milou, and we'll hook
your areas in.
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XII. QUOTABLE QUOTES
From: 'Jesse Garon' <gri...@primenet.com>
And SHUT YER PIEHOLE, FALSE PROPHETESS!
"Jesse Garon" wants that last bit recorded in the FAQ as a major quote.
From: dhal...@netcom.com (Dave Halgren)
It is not a matter of putting pedantry at the service of revolution
nor even a matter of putting pedantry at the service of poetry
but rather of putting pedantry at the service of EVEN MORE PEDANTRY.
From: Douglas P. Lathrop
[...] MTN is as yielding as water and yet as hard as diamonds.
From: Lindy Sisk li...@shell.portal.com
"Kill them all; God will know his own."
(Arnald-Amaury, papal legate and Abbot of Citeaux, at the seige of
Bezier, in 1209, when asked what to do in consideration of the fact
that not all of the populace was, in fact, the Cathar heretics who
were being sought.)
From: Nancy McNelly <nmcn...@acs.bu.edu>
If she owned Hell and Arcosanti, she'd rent out Arcosanti and live
in Hell.
From: jen...@twain.oit.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl)
Libby on the deck of a sinking ship, refusing to help bail
water, because she's painting, on the sinking ship, a mural
of a non-sinking ship that can transport all the oppressed
people of the world to an arcology where they can live in
harmony and peace.
Saint Jenny, having them holy visions once again
From: dben...@crl.com (Andrea Chen):
Even though you make me all gushy inside I still think we have
a strong duty to save humanity.
From: yo...@pentagon.io.com (YoYo):
That's why I like capitalism and private property. Because
you put in your time, you get your check, and at the end of
the day, you can go to your own private house, lock the
door, rip off all your clothes, and run around naked,
yelling "FUCK YOU, WORLD!! THIS IS *MY* TIME!!"
Um... Am I sharing too much, here?
From: David DeLaney (d...@panacea.phys.utk.edu)
I 'splain. Web pages not live. Web pages *MEMOREX*!!!
Doctresses live. When doctresses fall in hole makes noise
in forest. Boom! When web pages fall in hole is nobody
there. No noise. Just disappear, poof. Also, when doctresses
fall in hole, make noise afterwards from cybersex, squoosh
squinch slurp. Web pages no sex. Poor web pages.
From: The Doctress Neutopia
I am one example of the mutated being, but there are others.
The lovolution has the possibility of being a very rapid
mutation.
Unfortunately, our dictionaries are the places where we dream
about encountering the joy of metaphysical sex.
The dominate ideology of capitalism has now taken over the
entire world. Those of us with alternative visions are in a
bad situation and the only thing is to develop our visions
and passions and try to make the people see the truth of
their exploitation. This is a difficult task because the
masses have been so brainwashed by TV.
i just can't see the way i am going to get the media
attention and the power base i need in order to carry out
the mission any further. last night i pleaded with the
goddess to help me, that i felt i was at a dead end, and i
was desperate for direction. there seems to be some
invisible force stopping me from making the lovolution
happen. i feel as though the universe has been teasing me
for a while now about the transformation. i need help,
divine help.
Even if I was elected to Congress, that is not enough power.
It has to be world power.
Since we will be ruling the world from Outspace, my clothes
will be much more like the dress of the Trekies.
Wow, boys, I thought your flames were bad, but they are nothing
compared with the flames of women! Women's flames cause wars!
The Y chromosome could have been a bad mutation which causes
wars, crime, and lies. I don't know actually.
If you find a job for a futurist feminist who wants
to build a Neu World please inform me. This is my job.
Any other job is a waste of time.
Wonder if I am not insane in my vision and I *do* have an
important insight to teach which could save the world?
Wonderful if my search for the messianic consciousness is
not in vain, but exactly what I should be doing?
Furthermore, I have been locked away in a mental hospital
before and their `psychiatric care' (or torture) did not
reform me or brainwash me into conforming to the status quo.
So your `psychiatric care' did *not* work to kill my
idealism. They tried, but failed. They finally had to
declare that I was legally sane. How many people do you
know have been declared legally sane by the state of North
Carolina? Ha, ha, ha! I outwitted the system again.
In Neutopia drugs, will be used until we break everyone out
of the old thought patterns that are destroying the world.
I was put into a mental "hospital" when I was 21 years old
for softly projecting the word "hogwash" at a friend's
wedding after the minister pronounced the bridal couple
husband and wife. My mother was beside me in the pew. It
was she who thought my utterance was an act of insanity.
I think you ought to know that I am not in good mental health.
My insides are all messed up and I feel a lot of pain and mental
torment. It has to do with you not writing me letters.
You don't know much about intelligent, free thinking women.
I will talk to anyone, no matter what their "educational"
experience has been. Some of the biggest fools I know have
doctorates.
My body is not 4:00. The right side of my body is messed up
and I don't know the reason why. I need to see an MD but I
don't have health insurance. What a bad world you arrogant
patriarchs have created.
The other day I wrote and essay how I was born ahead of my
time which is certainly a terrible situation for a
revolutionary spirit like me to be in.
Yes, I would say the Gaia Theory is the unification of all the
sciences into a wholistic vision of planetary love....yes,
all is One!
"Virgins do not have babies." I pray that someday soon you
will see what I am saying.
Maybe there would give you are metal of something like that.
Marijuanna does effort the memory, so maybe that is one of
the reasons I am having difficulty recalling your kind and
beautiful words.
I try to think back on my past lives to try to understand the
Queen I am embodying, but I am blank.
I was telling my friend, Jack, yesterday after we got back
for some beer festival in Northampton that my mind felt like
it wasn't connected.
Dusk has broken. I have been up all night talking to myself
in the mirror contemplating the holy stuff of life....dream
on, dream on, through the tears, I shall dream on!
You need Neutopian idealism in order to understand the
power of love. You might not realize how I am effecting
your spirit until years down the road. But someday, in your
dreams and when you connect with your higher self, you will
realize that there is wisdom in what I have to say.
Dear Andrea, you know who much I respect your wisdom and
authority, but never in that beautiful head of yours think
for one moment that I am just a figure head. Yes I am
working on the symbolic level for now, but at some point
then the power shifts *our* way, we will then be expected to
direct the power. Then, I will be an *active*
Queen/Prophetess. Of course I will need you as my faithful
(now what shall we call you?) directress to give out the
tasks and make things happen. How does that order sound to
you? Look Andrea, we have different talents and gifts and we
must admit to ourselves that we need each other to create
the Great Work.
I love your fierce analysis and your scientific perspective.
With all the intelligence you exhibit, it is surprising that
you are a woman! [To "Andrea Chen" den...@crl.com]
But why would Geertjan listen to me? All he really wanted
from me was a good once-in-a-life-time fuck. Geertjan, the
big revolutionary thinker, said that he wanted to bomb
buildings. [...] Yes, Geertjan, it is much easier to think
about blowing up buildings than it is to actually love
Neutopia!
The Goddess as brought us together for a reason which is
not totally comprehensible to us at this time[.]
Was it Geertjan who was the lier or was it me for denying
the lie? The question is: who is living the truth?
I keep waiting for a man who will surrender to my love, a
man who has enough self-worth and integrity who will turn
around and honor my Wisdom. But I must face the fact that
my revolutionary hero whose job is to move us away from
urban decay into the New Age of Ecocities-- is not known to
me at this time. I must find the strength within myself to
carry out the task without the affection of my beloved
soulmate.
I don't have sex with every man I befriend! In fact, I
don't have much sex at all! I am not too happy that I don't
have a good sex life, but there is nothing I can do about it
that I am not doing because we living in a culture stalemate
and no man I knew has the guts to play the Gaia Messiah.
Tonight I finally feel that I have found myself and reached
a neu level of maturity. I no longer what to roam the
street looking for the next drug induced high. I no longer
have the desire to sleep with anyone. (14 May 1995 03:37:35 GMT)
Unless there is a radical movement towards erotic and universal
love, then acts of sex will be empty and meaningless. That is
just the facts of life, buddy. So, please tell me about your
happy sex life. Do you have kids and a middle-class house which
you pay on every month? Does she/he give you good head? Sorry
for the graphics, but I am a frustrated woman at my sexual peak.
Boycotting sex for political/spiritual reasons takes an iron
will. (14 May 1995 07:07:20 GMT)
I will always love exceptional men. It comes very naturally
to me that I enjoy being with them, even though I wish they
would shut up most of the time and meditated on nature.
Generally they chatter too much about stupid things, but I
realized that we here in the Usenet are run by the regime of
stupidity.
What kind of man/woman I need to satisfy my passionate sexuality
also came up. Do I need someone who I can dominate? I didn't
think so, but I didn't need someone who was going to dominate me
either. It seems that what I need is equality with me having the
final word.
When young men have been attracted to me, I know it. They
can't stop having hard ons.
You have to suck up to the patriarchy if you want a hard
prick.
I don't believe I said your lovemaking was invalid.
Marriage can be a form of legal prostitution.
My marriage became that way. If you help fix my car, I will
sit on your face.
I think that Mother Foundress is correct when she says that
men have got to be re-educated. Some women go so far as to
say that they all must be castrated. Well, my fantasy is to
tie them up, tape up their little mouths and read them my
feministas! I tried this once with one of my "lovers." He
didn't like it one bit. What he wanted was to fuck me in
the ass and for me to whisper in his ear, "I am your sex
slave. I will do anything you want. Please fuck me in the
ass."
Today I thought if I don't get some erotic ecstasy in real
life with the Gaia Messiah soon, then my spiritual horniness
is going to put me underground before my time.
I believe there is a reason why I have more freedom of time than
the majority of humans on this planet, so that I can act on their
behalf even though they hate me for doing so.
It would like my soul to shoot them in cold blood because
they are ignorant people stuck in a bad society.
One thing that history proves:
the civilized people are the barbarians.
Believe me, it is very difficult believing I possess such a
strange personality! But I can't just make it go way.
Drugs and alcohol don't make it go away. Going to a mental
hospital didn't make it go away. The vision only gets
stronger -- and more painful. I feel that I have an
archetypal knowledge that no one else in the world possesses
so I have no one to talk intimately about it with. My only
hope is to educate people about what I see. I can't just
make my self-knowledge go way!
What a whacked out, wild woman I am! Where will I find the
nerve to press the send button to send this message which
bites fly all over the world to make sense in your mail box.
I'm I making any sense?
Hope my last appearance wasn't too upsetting or offensive to
you. Oh well, not much I can do about it now if it was! As
alt.cyberspace writer Andrea Chen says, we all have
multi-personalities and you saw one of my stranger ones the
other night.
You have a very small mind which I hope someday becomes a
large as the ocean. You are a dangerous and cruel woman and
I really have no desire to spend anymore time on you. So,
since you have nothing to learn from me, I think will
_never_ answer any of your posts again.
From: 'Jesse Garon' <gri...@primenet.com>
Now that was funny. In the future, however, please keep your
unfunny posts out of alt.society.neutopia, which is a newsgroup
devoted to mockery and flippant sarcasm in the face of incurable
psychosis undulled by parents unwilling to do their duty.
From: Discord <ti...@tezcat.com>
You have this tendency to crosspost your blither-blather to
groups that are full of people who just don't give a shit
about your little ideological but impractical world.
Perhaps that is why you get so much criticism by the members
of those groups.
Now, if you want to post only to a.s.n. with your tripe, no
one is going to try to stop you. We -live- for tearing
apart your unthunk-out ideas.
From: Patrick G Conlin <scy...@CMU.EDU>
[Doctress Neutopia's] writings sound more like a substance-induced
hallucination than a plan.
From: lde...@linux3.ph.utexas.edu (Dictatrix Xtopia)
Fer Goddess' sake, woman, if you wanna get laid, go get laid
and don't worry about whether he's your soulmate. Call down
Aphrodite and burn the girdle of double standards.
From: Kevin Gowen <kgo...@efn.org> chief MTN cook and bottle washer, gives
us the Meaning of Neutopia in under twenty words:
The entire point of Neutopia is to make the world as comfortable
a place as possible for Libby Hubbard.
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XIII. KEY CONCEPTS TO KNOW
ABACINATION: burning out the eyes with hot metal plates.
ACTUCATION: what Doctress Neutopia calls reeducation. Acting on the
knowledge of inner wisdom or education.
ANTIYONICENTRIC: anti (against) + yoni (Sanskrit for female genitalia) +
centric (centered on). You figure it out.
ARCOLOGY: giant, self-sustaining shopping malls in which all Neutopian
humans will live.
BAR-B-QUE SAUCE: a condiment highly prized by Monster Truck
Neutopians; use of sauce on well-smoked ribs is considered gauche.
CONSONANTERPOLATION: adding or inserting consonants to change or
enhance words' meanings. See below "disemvowellment".
CRONE: She Who Rules All. One of the benevolent matriarchal rulers of
Neutopia.
CYBORGASM: massgasm over the net.
CYBERLOVE/CYBERLOVER: How/with whom The Doctress ("I haven't had sex
in six months.") Neutopia gets off.
CYBERSPACE: an overused, stupid neologism that's way too hip for
the crowd.
DISEMVOWELLMENT: the act of changing one or more vowels in a word to
form a far more esoteric (or even non-existent word) in order to make
a person seem far more intelligent and well-read than he actually is.
GAIAN MESSIAH: The Ideal Soulmate of the Gaian Queen (aka the Doctress
Neutopia), who together will make Epic Love, shaking the Universe's
very fabric. Current running candidate(s): [YOUR NAME HERE].
GAMMER: Church of Neutopia Without Neutopia term for "Crone".
GEERTJAN WIELENGA: Erstwhile Gaia Messiah. After the Fleshmeet,
was unable to withstand the brilliance of Neutopia's lovolutionary
truth. Will probably continue on to become a lawyer.
IDEAL LOVE: driving force behind the lovolution.
JESSE (use lower case only -- jesse): In Monster Truck Fruitopia, the
word 'art' has been replaced by the word 'jesse' (lower case and no
quotes, to distinguish from the source); it is Required in MTF,
Allowed in other MTN branches. Example: The Cistine Chapel is
a work of jesse.
LOVOLUTION: love+revolution (sorry, the terminology is not terribly
inspired).
LOVOLUTION, COURTNEY: MTN variation upon the Lovolution. cf. 'Jesse
Garon': "Give me Courtney Love and a Glock 9mm, and I can change the
world." The Courtney Lovolution is grimmer, harsher, more ripe with
fury, and has better lipstick than Libby.
MASSGASM: a telepathic, psycho-sexual conjunction of minds. May
involve actual sexual arousal and climax -- it's hard to tell what the
Doctress has in mind.
MONSTER TRUCK NEUTOPIA: the antithesis of (Ortho)Neutopia in which
everyone gets a monster truck (sedan, or other vehicle getting less
than 15 MPG), gas, firearms, ammos, bar-b-que, and the freedom and
responsibilty to use them wisely.
NEUSOCIAL: From "new" + "eusocial", a new social order based on a
single female interbreeding with multiple males. Eusocial species
include naked and hairy mole rats, bees, and ants.
NEUTOPIA: utopian future society Libby Hubbard envisions in which she
is the Queen Bee presiding over the hive-like Neutopian society
swarming within massive arcologies. Pronounced either "NOOT-opia",
"NEW-topia", or "NOY-topia", the last being more Germanic (like "Neue
Ordnung" - New Order).
ORTHONEUTOPIA: same as Neutopia.
QUATLOO: Proposed Monster Truck Neutopia unit of exchange. Origin:
Star Trek Classic episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion" -- or is it
"Gammers of Triskelion"...?
SAPPHISTRY: Doctress Neutopia's neu sexuality in which groups of women
alone generate the Gaia Messiah through homoerotic love. Related
terms: sapphisticate, sapphisitication, and sappherstory.
SOULIZATION: Lovolutionary civilization.
SYMBOYTIC UNION: sucking up to the patriarchy in order to get a stiff
prick.
TRANSVERSITY: International Neutopian electronic university based on
the net.
WAY POPIN': (pronounced with a long o) Exciting, interesting; cf "cool".
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XIV. NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
The Diagnositic and Statistics Manual, Rev IV, lists the following as
descriptive of Narcissitic Personality Disorder:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy and behavior), need for
admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and
present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of
the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates
achieve- ments and talents, expects to be recognized as superior
without commensurate achievements);
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power,
brilliance, beauty, or ideal love;
(3) believes he or she is "special" and unique and can only be
understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status
people (or institutions);
(4) requires excessive admiration;
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of
especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her
expectations;
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others
to achieve his or her own ends;
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the
feelings and needs of others;
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of
him or her;
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
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XV. THE FIVE STAGES OF NEUTOPIA'S PSYCHO-CYCLE
From Douglas Lathrop <lat...@primenet.com>, a masterful overview of
the Doctress Neutopia's bipolar phasing.
- - -
I'm sure everyone who's read a.s.n for a while has noticed a certain -
well - regularity to the Doctress' rantings. I've dubbed this
phenomenon "The Broken Record" because it really does seem to me that
Libby is stuck in the same groove and has been so for some time, and
that the only way she'll ever escape from it is if either the power is
cut off to the record player, or someone comes along and taps on the
needle, thereby urging it on to the next track.
(For those not old enough to remember, a "record" is a circular disc
of vinyl in which music was recorded via a spiral groove cut in the
surface. It's how we listened to rock 'n roll prior to the advent of
the CD.)
So, for your consideration, I hereby present THE FIVE STAGES OF
LIBBY'S PSYCHO-CYCLE. The following shall be considered FAQ material,
either in its present form, or in a revised form following discussion.
STAGE 1: Libby reemerges after a noticeable absence resulting from
depressive episode occurring during Stage 5 (q.v.). She
begins by posting old material, usually xposting it to hell and back.
Despite the annoyance she elicits by xposting in this manner, this is
a relatively lucid time for Libby - she freely participates in the
give-and-take of a.s.n, and her responses to followups are gracious
(if non-sequiturious and irrelevant).
STAGE 2: Libby's posts begin to display increased disorganization of
thought patterns. Her writing style, prosaic during Stage 1,
becomes more lyrical and pseudo-poetic (c.f. "shitty verse"). It is
during this stage that her "visions" of Neutopia emerge - i.e.,
arcologies, communal childcare, massgasms, telepathy, etc. Her drug
use becomes apparent. She no longer responds directly to questions
(which at this point are usually numerous, since people are trying to
figure out what the hell she's talking about), but she's in generally
good spirits, conjuring up alliances between herself and other posters
(i.e., "Chen," "Schwann," et al.) and treating the rest as ignorant
but decent children who need only be taught to become part of the
Lovolution. It is also during this stage that Libby is most likely to
form an erotic attachment to a selected male poster who is then dubbed
the "Gaia Messiah." In psychological terms, this would probably be
referred to as the start of Libby's "manic" phase.
STAGE 3: Libby becomes aggressive and belligerent, casting aspersions
on other posters' sexual practices and life-style choices -
in the words of one observer, "kickin' butt and takin' names." (K.
Geiger) Her mind is still full of optimistic Neutopian visions, but as
this stage progresses those visions are undercut by increasing
paranoia. ("Who are you working for, Peter?") Drug use peaks. If
she has a love-object, she makes plans to meet him, and those plans
are the only things keeping her from moving on into Stage 4 as she
becomes more and more burdened with self-pity and self-doubt. MTNs
become visibly annoyed with her and tell her near unanimously to "stop
whining and get a job."
STAGE 4: The crash. At this point Libby turns on her love-object and
exacts revenge against him (posting email, leaving dead
things in his mailbox, dancing naked in front of the UMass Student
Union) for imagined "wrongs." If there is no Gaia Messiah in the
picture, she turns on other posters, harassing them by email, accusing
them of trying to kill her or of staring at her breasts, etc. Her
language skills deteriorate to the point where she has difficulty even
putting simple sentences together. ("Maybe there would give you are
metal of something like that.") This stage often ends with Libby
posting messages of a vaguely suicidal nature, although most MTNs seem
to doubt either her willingness or her ability actually to commit
suicide.
STAGE 5: Libby usually describes this stage as a "healing" time. Her
suicidal thoughts are mentioned briefly and then never
referred to again. Her posts are filled with disappointment - in
herself to some degree, but mostly to those around her who have let
her down, such as the MTNs, her family, her former love objects, etc.
She resolves never again to love or to trust - her take on her own
situation is, in short, "I guess I'll have to make the lovolution
happen alone, since no one around me has the guts to help me." As
Stage 5 ends, Libby lapses into a depression-fueled silence, broken in
Stage 1 of the next cycle.
And so on and so on . . .
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XVI. EPILOG
From: Doctress Neutopia <neut...@titan.oit.umass.edu>
Karl, I am deeply ashamed by this post. On alt.society.neutopia this
kind of anti-social behaviour is unexceptable. We don't use kill
filters or guns in Neutopia. You need to read what a lot of the above
people have to say. You would learn about other points of view.
Your "Neutopian purity" file is fascist! We will not tolerate fascist
thought on this neu world. The Goddess is deeply disappointed in you.
Are you aware of the Nazis purity list? I would surely be one of the
targets. Now what would you do without me? Think about it!
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:Karl "Skatman" Chief Monster Truck Neutopian Sanitation Engineer