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۳  The Cunning Circumvention of Imposed Limitations by the Distribution ߳
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۳ Authored by:     [trm]                   Release Dates:  [Monthly]    
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۳ Edited by:       [Demented Pixie]          Issue           [Is01]      
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۳ Released by:     [Cultural Resurrection]   Language:       [English]    
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۳ Distribution by: [City of Angels]          Issue Content:  [Demagoguery]
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۳  Before we get into the Suppressed Information Issues & Culture articles
۳ (Is03) and up, I want to make an amendment issue addition to Is00. It 
۳  deals with an Undernet Social Overview of the Hacking Community as a   
۳  Culture in inself and shares some insite on current Worldviews. Subject
۳  being by terminology "Demagoguery". This deals with Cultures and the   
۳  evolution of the hacking Culture within the descriptive term. Where the
۳  Culture is at today and some possible paths that the Culture could take
۳  in the very near future. Demagoguery Idealism is the prime concept and 
۳  reason for being of TEOAS. TEOAS recognizes that many changes need to  
۳  be made within the hacking community for the positive evolution of our 
۳  community into a very real, recognized and excepted Culture within the 
۳  general publics worldview. Heros, Leaders & Educators as opposed to the
۳  malicious, evil, dark and even criminal aspects of net society. You'll 
۳  understand more about the Demagoguery concept as you read on. This Zine
۳  article written exclusively for the TEOAS publication by "ilentwing",
۳  BS in psychology, statistician and Cultural researcher with many years 
۳  of background experience. We look forward to many future articles being
۳  submitted by this Lady. Remember that Knowledge is not Power in itself.
۳  Applied knowledge is Power......                                        
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۳                Demagoguery (or Curiosity Killed the Cat)                
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۳ It is called demagoguery. Throughout history, any time a minority group 
۳ gains some power or has something another larger, more powerful group   
۳ wants, thus begins the process of demagoguery. Demagoguery is the       
۳ process by which one group, sometimes even a whole society begins to    
۳ instill fear of another group for political reasons. President Jackson  
۳ did such with the Cherokee Indians with the Trail of Tears all because  
۳ there was thought to be gold in North Georgia where the Cherokee tribes  
۳ resided. Hitler began such a process with the Jews because they were    
۳ more successful, or seemed to be, than other German citizens.  Before   
۳ and after the above named incidences our history is riddled with such   
۳ acts just by virtue of being culturally different. Various cultures have
۳ their own idiosyncrasies by which most other cultures tend to stereotype
۳ them, perpetuating the fear that this group or that, might some day gain
۳ power threatening the status quo.                                        
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۳ People, in general, don't like their worldviews threatened and new      
۳ encounters with various cultures tend to shake those worldviews. A      
۳ worldview is how an individual perceives the world through his or her   
۳ experiences and the process of making sense of those experiences. Our   
۳ worldview is how we define our culture and how societies are formed.    
۳ When the general population encounters a culture that is distinctly     
۳ different from the norm, a first reaction is fear. The second is fitting
۳ this new experience in with previous experience, hence stereotyping.    
۳ When the media becomes involved, the process of stereotyping goes much  
۳ more quickly, most notably by highlighting the most visible acts of the 
۳ identifying culture, oftentimes to that culture's detriment.            
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۳ The media has certainly affected the way the general population views   
۳ the hacking culture. Terms such as white hat hackers and script kiddies 
۳ have become buzzwords as the media begins it's quest to sort, identify, 
Uo     areas of the world, but only recently begun to receive  
۳ notice from the rest of the world community. As a culture gains momentum
۳ ,it also becomes a threat to the status quo and thus begins the process 
۳ of demagoguery.                                                          
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۳ Although the hackers in general refer to themselves as a culture, one   
۳ wonders whether they realize that they are in fact a very distinct      
۳ culture. The word culture is used to describe a worldview and a way of  
۳ life that fits that worldview. As with any other culture, when the      
۳ negative aspects of the culture receive the greatest percentage of      
۳ notice, the culture as a whole suffers. Although there have been a few  
۳ efforts to dispel the notion that hackers as a group go around defacing 
۳ web pages, breaking into computers to steal whatever there is to steal, 
۳ the efforts have been rather individualistic and seldom. The knowledge, 
۳ the ability, and the power may be there to do this and it does happen,  
۳ for most it's the curiosity that draws them. They are explorers of a    
۳ sort learning, taking things apart to see how they work, discovering new
۳ ways of doing things, and sharing that knowledge with others, with their
۳ primary goal that of advancing knowledge. As more and more people begin 
۳ to communicate via the internet, hackers became more noticeable. The    
۳ implications of what can happen is what frightens the general population
۳ ,making it easy for a more viable, somewhat trusted, group to instill   
۳ fear of the hacking culture as a whole, rather like homophobia.         
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۳ The Mormons survived only by accepting the dictates of the government   
۳ for marriage. Much of their beliefs and way of life were modified       
۳ to fit the majority society's ideals, yet, they managed to survive in   
۳ the onslaught against their culture and religion. Martin Luther King    
۳ also led such a movement to gain civil rights for African Americans. It 
۳ is movements such as these that gain acceptance for the various cultures
۳ around the world. Nor are these movements particular to the 20th century
۳ but is as old and probably older than written history. Great Britain    
۳ once banned the Gaelic language from being written or spoken. And the   
۳ language and the religion almost died as a result but it survived. The  
۳ Roman Empire imposed similar restrictions along with their conquest of  
۳ the world. But cultures still survived these onslaughts, not all by any 
۳ means, but those that did had similar elements to their survival. All   
۳ were subjected to some form of demagoguery, they made a concerted effort
۳ to win recognition for their culture as a group with chosen leaders, and
۳ educated the rest of the world about their culture and what it means to 
۳ be a part of that culture.                                               
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۳ The hacker culture is facing the same dilemmas. As more and more sites  
۳ related to hacking and security go down and governmental interference   
۳ increases, the community as whole is becoming very disorganized and     
۳ fragmented. The very fact that names like script kiddies and white hat  
۳ hackers are becoming the buzzwords is evidence of the divided camps     
۳ among the culture itself, leaving a whole spectrum of members lost,     
۳ without guidance or support from like minded individuals, and few, if   
۳ any, apparent leaders. Unfortunately, this is also part of the process; 
۳ the divide and conquer phase of demagoguery. One cannot but wonder if   
۳ this culture will survive this threat to their existence and live to    
۳ gain acceptance from other cultures.                                     
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