PLAN FOR THE SUMMER
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As of September I finish college (thank fuck for that) and fly back to Florida. I'll drive Sara's car back to Illinois and set up shop at the lake with some of my clothes and my computer that I'm bringing back with me. Oh, and books.
I'll get a day job there and start writing the middle of Collectivity (the back of the book is what I'm writing at the moment). I'll seclude myself on the lake for 4 months except on weekends when I'll visit my great grand parents and aunt's and uncles.
Oh, and if there are any Sg events in Chicago then I'll be there.
Book references list (to date) or shit I've read that influnced the writing of Collectivity:
The Lord of the Rings series, the Hobbit, the Simarillion (Multiple races)
The Foundation series (Seldonian cults, religon as science)
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance (Unified philosophy)
Lila (unified philosophy)
Stand on Zanzibar (multiple stories in one world)
Hyperion series (AI's killing eachother, space travel, unsophsticated space civilization)
The Road Ahead (Plausible future senarios)
The age of spiritual machines (Plausible future senarios, nanotechnology)
The Vampire Chronicles (Plausible immortal thinking)
Paradise Lost (Angel and demon characteristics)
The complete works of Ayn Rand (AI thought patterns)
Fight Club (writing style)
I Robot (AI thought patterns)
Ender's Game (Space travel)
The Republic (How society could function under perfect government)
Utopia (How society could function under perfect government)
The Ethics (AI Ethics)
On Writing (writing style)
Nancy Friday's works (How sex influences human thought)
The hitchhiker's guide series (plausible humorous sci-fi)
Gridlinked (benevelont despot AI's, AI emotion, netlinking)
SnowCrash (Plausible humorous sci-fi, virus concepts)
William Gibson's works (human sexuality and technology, The Internet, Marketing viri, Plausible future technologies, man's fear of AI, AI's relationship to the Internet, Dominant female characters, clever wording and frazology, AI emotion, emotional support)
1984 (Government taken to extremes, mirror of contemporary political makeup)
Animal Farm (Communism in perspective)
HyperSpace (Physics possibilities)
The Saga of Recluce (Sexuality and humanity, super-human powers and politics, political landscaping, Religoun and politics)
Native Son (Human nature, repression of minorities)
The Bible (Evidence of already exsting AI, the nature of humans)
The Sefer Yitzirah (Concept of 'entire universe residing on a quantum computer', concept of 'God the programmer')
Lies my teacher told me (the distortion of history by the ruling class)
The Light of Other days (the adaptation of human behaviors in the presence ot utter scrutiny, human ethics)
The interpretation of dreams (the subconsciencious human motivations drive the conscience and rational human)
Beyond good and Evil (moral relativism)
That's about 80 influences and 30 more on the way.
Around 110 influences for a single book. Damn, no wonder I'm thinking the baby will be 500 pages long.
(Fucking hell, this list makes me think that I've probably read like 300 books in the last 7 years)
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I change strategy based on the effects I wish to evoke.
If I wish to understand a system I am chaotic.
I try not to change the system while Spreading ripples, but change is the easiest way to ping.
Once I feel I have sufficient vision I change to watching for other ripples.
I trace the ripples to the source, and therby know the sources of power in a given system.
Once the sources of power are known a system ceases to be a threat.
I'm currently learning how to trace the drain.
It's harder to pinpoint.
The only permanant change I wish to instill is freedom.
Prisons sicken me.
I do understand that freedom must be tempered.
I only offer freedom to those that already have it in themselves.
I give nothing.
I ask nothing.
I simply wish life.
But the idea of change drives the masses.