"PROTO" SUBGENIUS???

From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 1:49 AM

ghost wrote:
>
> "Joe Cosby" <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com> wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> > All very true, still I think Parsons qualified as a proto-subgenius.
> >
> > He ran an open free love and mind altering drug house in the fifties,
> > advocated the complete overthrow of everything and worked sincerely at
> > bringing about the Apocalypse, while managing to work a pink job.
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/nmsg
> >
> > Also note the pipe.
> >
> > If it weren't for falling in with those OTO goofballs and Hubbard the
> > lad might have turned out OK.
>
> Within that little demi-monde, I'd prefer to nominate Austin Osman Spare as
> the proto Sub-G... he developed onanism into an occult ritual, he created
> his own mythos, and he drew purdy dang good, too.

There's no such thing as a proto-subgenius. You're either on the
saucer or you're in the fire. There didn't suddenly start being
subgenii in the twentieth century. These people you and Cosby are
calling protos are just people who failed at being normal. Just being
some jackoff that makes up new names for old ideas, or joined somebody
else's cult and then got blowed up, doesn't make you half a subgenius.
You're either fucking the squid or ... not.

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