DISINFO.COM Annual Event I
Introductory Speech
RICHARD METZGER
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Transcribed by J.P.OLAVSFJØRÐUR MORZELO

             Hello and welcome of what we hope to be the first of many annual Disinfo.com events. I'm Richard Metzger, welcome to the (Hammerstein) Ballroom, for those of you from out of town, welcome to New York. And the people from New Zealand, Sweden and Dublin, you know who you are, you ROCK for coming from that far for these things. Thank you very much. Welcome.

             Paraphrasing Alleister Crowley in his book "The Intelligence Aegis", Thelema theorists wrote that they're three ways to increase your intelligence. First, continuosly expand the scope, source and intensity of information you receive. Second, develop networks for increasing intelligente, and particular expend your time with people as smart or smarter than you are. And third, continuosly revise new maps of reality and seek for new metaphors for the future. And that, dear Beloved, is what we're gathered here for today. and I have a prediction to make: before we leave we all are going to leave this place a little bit smarter. We are going to mutate just a little bit. Think of today as a kind of iniciation, or as a sort of magical rite of passage. Energies will be raised today that will be hard to forget about or to put down when you go back to work next week. In the next eleven hours the speakers in this stage will be messing your head, playing with your files and commiting a (excise) random excise of higher revolutionary mutation. Don't worry, that will be painless, and we hope it's going to be very entertaining.
The twentieth century has just been bookended. The revolutionary means spred in the last century by Crowley, Alan Gingsburg, William Burroughs, Lerry, Abbey Hoffmann, and some of our speakers here today have been eternalized by a large segment of population. And in the new millenium these thought forms will become fully externalised in culture. When this information launched in the end of 1996, fewer than 20 corporations controlled over 99% of major media outlet. At that time I described a need for an antidote for the proper control of the corporate major media outlets. But with the advent of internet, an incredible number of magazines in the stands and the new cable television networks turned up every month. This is no longer really the case. Just three years later there were a lot of companies jumping into the enterntainment and infotainment arenas. New voices and different opinions are being heard. In the news media climate, diversity is unaudible and (lock) these 20 corporations which previously had a consensus reality is a thing of the past. Those companies are still around, but they're being forced to share the media monopoly with a lot of competition. Whoever controls what you seek, controls what you think. But our reality is not longer based on what the tell us. With the new media tools we all have on our disposal, all of us, with the inclination to make our voices and opinions to be heard loudly, can now more fully participate in a debate. Think about it: there is more free speech today than ever before at any point in history.
Very simple, the need to fill hundreds of television channels, and radio stations and movie theaters and newspapers and magazines with content cause consensus reality fed to excess to burst like a piñata. But the modern revolution doesn't want necessarily to bring the system down or destroy capitalism - far from it - in a society where capitals came, and every fucking deep shit with ".com" is making bank, like they're printing cash in the cellar, and many of them are, the point should be to get close to that AOL, Time Warner, HNT, DNN, CBS, BBC, NBC, RCA Money as you possibly can get. If they'd give, you should grab, and not think twice. The truly up-to-date rebelrouser wisely seeks the path of least resistence and subverts from within. The multinational media corporates need people like us to make their software, write their articles and produce their television shows. Smell an oportunity for mischief? I do.
Today's inspiring monologue ( __________ ?) rebel to take a page from the book of Simpson's creator Matt Groening, of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the guys behind South Park or Marilyn Manson. The most subversive thing anyone can do is become popular. There`s no point in having a feeble voice if you don't have to. If a tree falls in the forest and no one pressreleased in the media, it didn't happened. Obscurity isn`t admirable, it isn't anything but obscure. If your message is packed in a sexy, funny, interesting way, people will listen. The days of throwing Molotov cocktails and getting beaten up by cops - although Seattle did look it like fun, is OUT. The days of living in a penniless apartament, driving a Lexus and beating your enemies at your own game is IN. Have your cake, and throw it too, in other words. Don't complain about the media, become the media.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen the Ilumminati, and it is US.