Another great video from the guys at JoyCamp, an LA-Based film group: “PSA: Conspiracy Theorist” is a subtle jab at both conspiracy enthusiasts and those who mindlessly dismiss their observations.
a conspiracy is not about having a large group of people after agenda, all it takes are the people with influence and power plotting together. every corporation, organization, institution and group is a conspiracy of sort and thats plain to see.
The Occult Assault on Institutions
by Hakim Bey
The levels of Immediatist organization:
1) The gathering. Could be anything from a party to a riot. Can
be planned or unplanned but depends on spontaneity to “really happen”.
Examples: anarchist gathering, neo-pagan celebration, Rave, brief
urban riot or spontaneous demo. Of course the best gatherings become
TAZ’s such as some of the Be-Ins of the 60′s, the early Rainbow tribe
gatherings, or the Stonewall Riot.
2) The horizontal potlatch. A one-time meeting of a group of friends to
exchange gifts. A planned orgy might fall into this category, the gift
being sexual pleasure — or a banquet, the gift being food.
3) The Bee. Like a quilting bee, the Immediatist Bee consists of a
group of friends meeting regularly to collaborate on a specific project.
The Bee might serve as an organizing committee for a gathering or
potlach, or as a creative collaborative, an affinity group for direct
action, etc. The Bee is like a Passional Series in Fourier’s system, a
group united by a shared passion which can only be realized by a group.
4) When the Bee acquires a more-or-less permanent membership and a
purpose larger than just a single project — an on-going project, let’s
say — it can either become a “club” or Gesellschaft organized
non-hierarchically for open activity, or else a “Tong” organized
non-hierarchically but clandestinely for secret activity. The Tong is
of more immediate interest to us now for tactical reasons, and also
because the club operates in danger of “institutionalization” and hence
(in Ivan Illich’s phrase), “paradoxical counter-productivity”. (That
is, as the institution approaches rigidity and monopoly it begins to
have the opposite effect from its original purpose. Societies founded
for “freedom” become authoritarian, etc.) The traditional Tong is also
subject to this trajectory, but the Immediatist Tong is built, so to
speak, to auto-destruct when no longer capable of serving its purpose.
5) The TAZ can arise out of any or all of the above forms singly, in
sequence, or in complex patterning. Altho I’ve said the TAZ can last as
briefly as one night or as long as a couple of years, this is only a
rough rule, and probably most examples fall in between. A TAZ is more
than any of the first four forms, however, in that while it lasts it
fills the horizon of attention of all its participants; it becomes
(however briefly) a whole society.
6) Finally, in the uprising, the TAZ breaks its own borders and flows
(or wants to flow) out into the “whole world”, the entire immediate
time/space available. While the uprising lasts, and has not been
terminated by defeat or by changing into “Revolution” (which aspires to
permanence), the Insurrection keeps the consciousness of most of its
adherents spontaneously tuned in to that elusive other mode of
intensity, clarity, attention, individual and group realization, and (to
be blunt) that happiness so characteristic of great social upheavals
such as the Commune, or 1968. From the existential point of view (and
here we invoke Stirner, Nietzsche, and Camus), this happiness is
actually the purpose of the uprising.
