May Day! And The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension

In honour of May Day today I am sharing some old school internet links that shaped, informed, transformed me in the early noughties when the world wide web was still in its nascent stages and we were still beginning to grasp all the fascinating ideas that lay out there.

Back in the day, I had literally Stumbled Upon this dingy corner of the web called deoxy.org. It had a familiar black background like most websites back then and the text was either in bright yellow or bright red. It had various categories labeled Anarchy, Revolutionary, Corporatism, Wage Slavery, Language and Drug Freedom (!) and quotes from Timothy Leary that kept geeky, curious teenagers like myself glued for hours. This was probably my first web resource for dangerous ideas that eventually led me to pick up many books from the local Sunday Bazaar in Karachi including Robert Anton Wilson, H.P. Lovecraft and even Marx.

I thought of deoxy after many years this morning in a bizarre stream of consciousness when I woke up. I looked it up and lo and behold!… it still exists. I’m not sure how much of it is still the same from days of the yore but it still looks pretty authentic although significantly changed. I don’t even know if it is a famous website or how many people know about it but it is something worth keeping in the dusty archives of your interwebs.

Here are some gems particularly for Labour Day that tickled my fancy:

1. The Abolition of Work

2. How Ethical is Work Ethic?

3. We Have To Dismantle This

4. The Psychopathology of Work

5. An Economic System Out of Control

“If you ever hear a fellow student say, “I’m not turned on politics,” give that student a history book because if you don’t turn on politics, down to the air you breathe, the water you drink, the racial profiling you detest, the health insurance many people don’t have, and on and on, If you don’t turn on politics, politics will turn on you in very disagreeable ways.” —Ralph Nader, On The Stump

Pass it along on to your younger siblings and implant seeds of controversial ideas! Enjoy :)