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*-* There Ain't No Justice *-*
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*-* #16 *-*
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- The Abduction of a Social Geek -
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by Locutus
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Bah, I've never much liked American society. It's so full of
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double- standards it isn't even funny. Many people don't even open
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their eyes and bother to question the rules of society, and I was one
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of them.
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For a long time, I used to believe everything about America and
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its people was just super-fine, and great, and grand. Used to believe
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that Bush was doing the right thing even. Never even saw what I now see,
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which is the absolute brainwashing of society. It starts at birth, and
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your parents take part in it, unknowingly, as it is instilled deep in
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their subconsious as well. If you are a guy, when you grow up you are
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automatically expected to be rich, doing great, and have 50 women at
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your call. (the last bit isn't that bad, really) When this doesn't
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happen, the person is automatically branded a loser. Why? Because
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that's society. And for women, they're expected to be perfect angels,
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never yielding. Of course, this is widely debated now, and I think I
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wont get involved in that issue, at least in this file. And also, when
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I was brought up, I believed in Catholic faiths. I never even
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questioned the Bible, or my religion, or anything. Simply went along,
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trying my best to fit in, which, of course, is impossible for some. This
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all came to an abrupt end in 1992.
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At the beginning of 1992, a friend of mine known to some as
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Spartacus got a 2400 baud modem for his IBM compatible computer. I
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thought that was neat-o, and I was introduced to modeming. I've had a
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Commodore 64, and never had a modem, so I was in for a complete suprise.
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Both Spart and I were astounded at all the possibilites (or at least I
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was, who knows what he was thinking at the time). At first, he used it
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mainly for file purposes. Then he found doors, and he proclaimed them
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fun. I finally logged on as me on a few bbs's with my real name at bbs's
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like Ground Zero, a door gamer's heaven. These soon grew tiresome for
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Spart, but I still made the trek to his house to finish up Blue Devil in
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Global War. But it was not until I got my own computer and modem when
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the fun began.
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April 21, 1992: Got my computer, and a spiffy one at that. Got a
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lot of software from Spart, and immediately called up Ground Zero to get
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my gaming in. I had fun then, staying up nights just to get a game of
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SRE in. Until the Night Light incident, which I mark as a turning point
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for me in BBSing.
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On Night Light (one great BBS, I might add), the sysop added a
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function to the bbs called a gold system. This would take gold away from
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people when they went in doors. Now until then, I never heard of Tal
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Meta or hegz, or anyone really. Spart told me to start newscanning
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message bases, as I wasn't very popular. So I did, and I started
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posting. Then John Doe, now a reformed door gamer, made idiotic posts to
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keep getting gold. Over this, Tal and I would proceed to argue about him
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and about this gold system, which I didn't like. But this argument made
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me get more involved in message bases..
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Then I heard from TnL that Cyber/Chat! was going up, a (then) 8
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line system where you could chat with other users. Since then, I have
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been on constantly, talking to Tal, Hegz, Midnite, Ffejtable, and a host
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of others express their opinions, which at first seemed rather shocking
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to my mainstream mind. As I actually thought about what they were
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saying, it made a lot more sense than what I had previously believed.
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From their ideas, I made my own views, which were much different to my
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previous ones. Heh, some would probably say they corrupted my mind, but
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I think they opened it up, now I can't stand talking to previous
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"friends" who are just completely enraptured and trapped in society.
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The new society of people I met through C/C! and various places just
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made so much more plain sense! I can't tell you that these ideas are any
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more correct than the mainstream ones, as that is each individual's
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opinion, but they do seem more logical. Try calling Cyber Chat and
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Phoenix Modernz Systems, and open your mind.
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