From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: nomadology
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:56:38 +0100



Carp wrote



>> there's a book by one of the Bey people
>> out of the moorish temple (maybe Hakim?) 
>> about dropping out of society.


Dropping out of society is an illusion. 
Those who operate under the delusion
that it is possible to drop out of society 
are often rudely disabused of their illusion
when it turns out that, no matter how
much they ignore it, society still affects
their lives. 

As for Hakim Bey, he is a fraud and a charlatan.

Maldoror wrote


> i believe it is Hakim Bey to whom you refer. 
> he also has an essay entitled 'ontological anarchy' 


Since I hadn't a clue what this pompous-sounding 
verbiage was about, I had to look it up in a dictionary.

" ONTOLOGY : The branch of metaphysics concerned
with the nature of being.."

Although I have of course heard of "metaphysics", it next
occurred to me that (probably like the vast majority of folk)
I couldn't actually say exactly what it was. So I looked
_that_  up as well.

"METAPHYSICS : The branch of philosophy concerned 
with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts 
such as being and knowing."

It therefore follows that what Hakim Bey wrote about
was "Applying to anarchy the principles of that branch 
(concerned with the nature of being) of that branch of philosophy 
concerned with abstract concepts such as being and knowledge".
Which sounds to me like a load of pretentious codswallop 
signifying absolutely sweet fuck all. Like I said, the guy 
is a fraud and a charlatan.


Dave Coull