From: cubensis@well.sf.ca.us (John Bagby)
Date: 6 Jul 1995 04:27:53 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
x ANNOUNCING the launch of the PRONOIA PAGE !
A web site dedicated to PRONOIA: the suspicion others
are conspiring behind your back to HELP you.
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** <URL:http://myhouse.com/pronoia/> **
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(July 4th, Central Colorado)
In the wake of recent events like the bombing in Oklahoma City and the
draconian Communications Decency Act, have you noticed an increase in
PARAnoia, and a growing cynicism about the future? What about PROnoia?
Exactly one year ago today, in the parking lot behind the Boulder Theater
in Boulder, Colorado, I stood blocking the path of Ken Kesey's massive,
rumbling Cadillac convertible. The zippies had just finished throwing
the after-hours party for Naropa Institute's birthday party for Allen
Ginsberg, and Kesey and his aging Merry Pranksters had performed a new
play for the event.
"CHIEF!" I cried, "In the name of the Zippy Pronoia Tour, I hereby kidnap
you for transport to the National Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming,
for the first-ever rave at a Gathering.... surely a prank worthy of your
pronoia! Will you come along peacefully to this tribal summit?"
Kesey squinched-up his forehead at me, adjusted his hat, and squinted
into the light of the video cameras.
"I've bitten the ankle of the beast," said the Chief. "Don't ask me
to bite where you want to bite."
"What about inspiring the next generation?" I asked.
"Son," Kesey replied slowly, "I've done that movie... now it's your
turn!" And roared off in his Cadillac.
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Now, one year later, the _Zippy Pronoia Tour to US_ is one for the
history books. Some say we made great strides in "biting the ankle of
the beast". Others charge we were sellouts, in it for a media fix and
a fast buck. Whatever your opinion, you cannot deny that following
the cover story in May 1994's _WiReD Magazine_, the _Zippy Pronoia Tour_
caught the attention and imagination of millions of people, through the
seduction of the major international news media.
Following a year filled with successes, failures, general chaos, and a
mysterious split with the Pronoia Tour's spokesman Fraser Clark, the 14
members of last year's tour have been scattered to the corners of the globe.
** But Pronoia remains. **
** And so does all the archived material from the Pronoia Tour. **
This pattern of web is happily offered to serve as a resource center for
cross-pollination of pronoid activity. The mission of this site is to
help provide easy access to positive alternatives to paranoia and hatred
of diversity. It also contains the offical archive of the Zippy Pronoia
Tour.
In coming months, there will be more audio/video experiments and direct
links to interactive communities. So please check out this offering
~~ an assembled collection of minds, media and links.
LOVE, PEACE and PRONOIA
-cubensis
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