The Emptiness of Australian Life in the 90's a Rant by Dig Zoom (G.M. Wallace) Rhubarb. 3 kilo's of mince. A full moon. Some orange paint and a virgin microwave oven. Seventeen pounds of concern and a half-tonne of wisdom. A time machine. My story revolves and oscillates around issues pertaining to the psychological effects of long-term unemployment on young people in Australian society. I have been through it, so I know. Although I am now 28 and thus much too much of an olde farte to be noticed on a site where the emphasis is on the less than 25's... I have a few interesting things to say. The problem is, though... my thesis is potentially several hundred thousand words long... if anyone is interested in hearing a philosophical interpretation of the shallow materialism of economic rationalism, the poignant points which illuminate that international embarassment which is (or may be the media-constructed simulated inevitability of) John Howard and the reasons why he is NOT a statesman (re: APoLOGIES etc.)... um... god, cosmology, relativity theory, parapsychological issues, freedom... artificial intelligence... time-travel... masculinity and feminity and power structures... cosmological discontinuities... the structure and evolution of conceptions of space and time as related to ontology and through this to social philosophy and political science... the history of art... the role of the subconscious in language, media and advertising... the death of 'ego-psychology'... Zen Buddhism... Infinity... the logic of humour... the reasons why sub-cultures must tread a fragile path between the Scylla of corporate control and the Charbydis of self-annihilation.... the role of the internet as an extension of pre-existing communications networks and the impact upon military concerns of such (i.e. - information warfare, memetics, psyops, etc.), and so very, very, very much more... get in contact with me through my EMAIL address... please - there must be someone out there who wants to particpate in dialogue with me over this... I want to write a book or fifty and I need publishers, advisors, mentors and friends to help me do so. at this point in time the author was abducted by purple and orange aliens from the planet Panopticon 5, itself located some thirty thousand light years from the galactic central point of the Andromeda galaxy. he spent the rest of his life in bliss, enlightenment and orange marmalade.* reach me at: Dig_Zoom@hotmail.com ß;-Þ Related Web Site Created on Sun, 4 Jan 1998 and last modified on Fri, 27 Feb 1998.

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