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[elfis]

ARG or NOT

[Star Spider]

Hey!

[FLmutant]

Re: ARG or NOT

[jjason]

Based on some of the links you gave you might be interesting in Dave Szulborski's series on the Dark Side of Args over at Alterati. For some reason it's been all converted into one big pile of text (I could've sworn there were paragraphs the first I read it) but besides that it's good reading.

On the subject of ARGs for espionage, have you read Halting State by Charles Stross? There's some interesting thoughts on how games and international politics might interact. See the spoiler for more info, with the caveat that it'll ruin one of the books big reveals.

[elfis]

Howdy Star Spider, FLmutant and JJason!

Thank you so much for the warm welcome. You are already offering some good insights and food for thought.

GOSH! Where to begin?

Well first off ... I've been lurking a while and yet I've not figured out the code for doing the anti-spoiler roll-over code. Oh, but now I see the button marked SPOILER.

Well now, let me just re-address each of you fine folks who've commented so far:

- Star Spider: thanks again for the welcome. Nice to know there are other newbies around. I see by your website that you are involved in coordinating one type of real-world chaotic fiction style events. Very cool. Nice niche.

"What it is all about" ...

Generally: It's about me fleshing out my thoughts and experiences of the past quarter year. It's about engaging folks who are active within this community to get their take on things. It's about educating myself about your community and about educating your community about these multiple strange threads that I think should make a great META conversation. It's about exploring the Collective Intelligence of gamers, internet researchers, cyber sleuths and perhaps making real world discoveries and solving real world crimes. All the while hopefully gaining a detailed enough assessment of things to bring a concise synopsis of the interestingness and import of these issues to the unwashed masses. It's about the internet, identity, art, mystery, crime, and exposing corruption and criminality.

Specifically: It's about the mysterious double suicides of two exceptionally interesting artists whose legacy is a veritable synchronicity driver and jumping off point for a variety of art movements, parapolitical activist networks, and paranormal research directions.

More specifically: It's about Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake who believed they were, 1 - being harassed by Scientologists, 2 - were possibly tied to MK-Ultra childhood mind control experiments and SRA (satanic ritual abuse) networks and, 3 - were very saavy regarding certain art movements and magickal traditions interested in effecting change through memetic engineering and morphic resonance. They had fled California to escape the perceived harassment and were living within the famous parapolitically charged atmosphere of St. Mark's Church in the bowery of NYC where Project Censored award winning activist and 911 Truther Rev/Pastor Frank Morales had let them stay in the sanctuary of the church rectory where Theresa killed herself.

Due to some very specific backstory involving parapolitical blogger Ty Brown of the DreamsEnd blog, Ty became convinced that Theresa Duncan's blog, the Wit Of The Staricase (aka WOTS), was a rabbit hole for an elaborate ARG. In the course of researching the case and her blog some very strange "internet shenanigans" began occurring that intimated a real ARG or LARP (or LARG?") that either sprang up in response to the blogger's theory or is/was actually part of the supposed game. That blogger, Ty Brown, has since pulled the plug temporarily on his blog and has made the forum that developed around this case's exploration private. You can read all his PRE - "Theremy Saga" writings here:

http://dreamsendweb.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dreamsend.wordpress.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dreamsend.blogspot.com/
http://dreamsend2.freeforums.org

- FLmutanat: thanks for the welcomes.

[elfis]

[Silent]

[catherwood]

[Silent|away]

[vpisteve]

.......S@m???

[elfis]

Hi Silent and Catherwood! Thank you for sounding out on this thread.

I suspect that most folks have the same opinions as you two.

Of course I also think that the majority of people don't question authority enough.

Given the widespread amount of corruption and criminality in the world - especially among those in power, whether they be police, politicians or paper pushers, I think it unsafe and unwise to always "leave it up to the professionals".

Certainly there are clear examples of how one or more amateurs CAN contribute to the conviction of criminals. I gave at least one MSM example above:

[elfis]

Of course I'm not the only one wondering whether Collective Intelligence can be used to solve real world problems:

[Obtusitivity]

[dreams end]

Matheny/Egg

[elfis]

So, I realize my two main posts here at Unfiction's Unforums (anybody go to FT's Unconvention?) laid out many threads to choose from, but I've been disappointed that noone has chosen the one strictly to do with Theresa Duncan and her WOTS blog. Nor DreamsEnd's ideas about same and their use / incorporation by Matheny.

Any comments on those subjects?

From the Matheny "interview" transcript: