Illegal Preclear
Skull Skylight Installation Specialist.
- Sep 6, 2022
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I sure do. It was my first ever exposure to suicide-positive, death-positive, antinatalist content and it absolutely blew my mind as a young teen. I felt SEEN so hard. Many younger members here probably are unaware because The Church of Euthanasia was a very Web 1.0 thing and has since fallen into obscurity, but it's still around!
Created by based as Hell edge-lady, musician, trans and queer icon, and activist Chris Korda in 1992 - The Church of Euthanasia was probably a lot of people's first exposure to ANYTHING that didn't demonize suicide, and made people question toxic pro-life attitudes. Chris Korda was a trailblazer and an absolutely fascinating woman and I'm in love with her antics. Antics which include: Making a pornographic music video about 9/11, running a presidential campaign for the Unabomber, trolling the ever-loving fuck out of pro-lifers at Abortion Rights rallies:
Creating a suicide ASSISTANCE hotline billboard: (Eat shit 988!)
And coining the motto "Save the Planet, kill yourself."
Chris Korda created something that was extreme, shocking, irreverent, and always just a tad absurdist: Everything that I love.
I found a lot of solace in her work when I was young teen and still do to this day, as I've been rediscovering all the incredible music and writings she's created over the decades, along with her compatriots on the site. I hope folks here can too. Really, her writings are so eye-opening and ahead of their time it's insane.
I'd start with "The Age of Simulation" (Certainly a hot topic nowadays. This was written way back in the 90s-early 00s)
An excerpt:
"
In spite of these difficulties, I begin by agreeing with Jeremy Rifkin that this is the Age of Simulation. By this I mean that people now accept mediated experience in the place of real experience. This change has taken place in a series of leaps, each corresponding to a technological innovation. The printing press, camera, telephone, radio, television, and computer form a continuum; with each "advance" the simulation becomes more complete. The simulation spreads, by eliminating human capacities it has no use for, while excessively stimulating others; in this sense it behaves like a virus, which replicates by altering the structure of its host. Simulation creates conditions favorable to itself by isolating people from other living beings, by reducing their range of sensation, and especially by narrowing their attention span. Parents and teachers, unable to grasp this, surround children with televisions and computers, and then complain about learning disabilities and "attention disorders."
As Rifkin points out, today's children dismiss someone with the phrase "you're history," and as history recedes, the future becomes equally uncertain. Unlike the Iroquois, who considered the impact of their deliberations on the next seven generations, today's leaders plan no further than their reelection. Obsession with an ever-changing present destroys continuity: the cycles of gradual change so essential to biological and spiritual health, are shattered into furtive, splintered motion. Calculus becomes a way of life, as matter, energy and even time are quantized into ever-smaller units. The search for irreducible elements conceals the desire to standardize, to make things uniform and interchangeable; humans seek total control, to avoid the disorder that their control-lust creates.
Through simulation, humans seek not only to concentrate all their knowledge in the present, but to use that knowledge, as power to transform the present, ever more quickly. Thus while the stated goal of technological "progress" is increased efficiency, which by itself seems beneficial, the concealed goal is to use that efficiency, not to reduce waste, but to go even faster. Yesterday's model is discarded, efficient or not, and as the speed of development increases, more and more of earth's structure is consumed, and dissipated as waste and heat. This dissipation is entropy, or unrecoverable energy."
The works of Chris Korda were shocking in the 90s, but in the current year - the shock gives way to just how much truth they contained.
Created by based as Hell edge-lady, musician, trans and queer icon, and activist Chris Korda in 1992 - The Church of Euthanasia was probably a lot of people's first exposure to ANYTHING that didn't demonize suicide, and made people question toxic pro-life attitudes. Chris Korda was a trailblazer and an absolutely fascinating woman and I'm in love with her antics. Antics which include: Making a pornographic music video about 9/11, running a presidential campaign for the Unabomber, trolling the ever-loving fuck out of pro-lifers at Abortion Rights rallies:
Creating a suicide ASSISTANCE hotline billboard: (Eat shit 988!)
And coining the motto "Save the Planet, kill yourself."
Chris Korda created something that was extreme, shocking, irreverent, and always just a tad absurdist: Everything that I love.
I found a lot of solace in her work when I was young teen and still do to this day, as I've been rediscovering all the incredible music and writings she's created over the decades, along with her compatriots on the site. I hope folks here can too. Really, her writings are so eye-opening and ahead of their time it's insane.
I'd start with "The Age of Simulation" (Certainly a hot topic nowadays. This was written way back in the 90s-early 00s)
Church of Euthanasia - Snuff It 4 - The Age of Simulation
Church of Euthanasia, Snuff It magazine
www.churchofeuthanasia.org
An excerpt:
"
In spite of these difficulties, I begin by agreeing with Jeremy Rifkin that this is the Age of Simulation. By this I mean that people now accept mediated experience in the place of real experience. This change has taken place in a series of leaps, each corresponding to a technological innovation. The printing press, camera, telephone, radio, television, and computer form a continuum; with each "advance" the simulation becomes more complete. The simulation spreads, by eliminating human capacities it has no use for, while excessively stimulating others; in this sense it behaves like a virus, which replicates by altering the structure of its host. Simulation creates conditions favorable to itself by isolating people from other living beings, by reducing their range of sensation, and especially by narrowing their attention span. Parents and teachers, unable to grasp this, surround children with televisions and computers, and then complain about learning disabilities and "attention disorders."
As Rifkin points out, today's children dismiss someone with the phrase "you're history," and as history recedes, the future becomes equally uncertain. Unlike the Iroquois, who considered the impact of their deliberations on the next seven generations, today's leaders plan no further than their reelection. Obsession with an ever-changing present destroys continuity: the cycles of gradual change so essential to biological and spiritual health, are shattered into furtive, splintered motion. Calculus becomes a way of life, as matter, energy and even time are quantized into ever-smaller units. The search for irreducible elements conceals the desire to standardize, to make things uniform and interchangeable; humans seek total control, to avoid the disorder that their control-lust creates.
Through simulation, humans seek not only to concentrate all their knowledge in the present, but to use that knowledge, as power to transform the present, ever more quickly. Thus while the stated goal of technological "progress" is increased efficiency, which by itself seems beneficial, the concealed goal is to use that efficiency, not to reduce waste, but to go even faster. Yesterday's model is discarded, efficient or not, and as the speed of development increases, more and more of earth's structure is consumed, and dissipated as waste and heat. This dissipation is entropy, or unrecoverable energy."
The works of Chris Korda were shocking in the 90s, but in the current year - the shock gives way to just how much truth they contained.
