Eureka! I have found Deoxy.org again at last, thanks to you.
Combing through that site made such an impact on my adolescent brain circa 1997-1999 but it was lost to the sands of times after many browser bookmarks migrations.
I had wanted to revisit it for maybe 5 or 6 years now but I couldn’t seem to find any traces of it anywhere.
I kinda worried that the content might feel dated and irrelevant now but, my gods, it does not. “A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty,
and Restore Economic Sanity,” for example, feels even more on-the-nose now, and even prescient of all the nonsense we’re living through now.
It's funny, I actually started this post in 2014 on another old defunct blog I had and never finished it. I am sending gratitude to past me for even being able to find the Deoxy content, otherwise I doubt 2025 me could have found it now. I look back at that stuff and it's so striking how subversive and relevant it was, compared to the zeitgeist today. We need to bring that energy back big time.
Couldn’t agree more. Lately I’ve been feeling a resurgence of many old threads and sources of inspiration from that era. Lots of needed medicines to be found in that moment in our collective consciousness.
Well said, and thank you for sharing that post, it does indeed feel very related. Something I was talking with some friends about yesterday was that everything now is so efficiency-based, but the inefficiencies are what allow humans to have time to think deeply about things, to get lost, to discover new ways of doing things. I think the frictionless world pushed by the tech oligarchs leads to stagnation and lack of innovation. But, maybe that's the point?
Eureka! I have found Deoxy.org again at last, thanks to you.
Combing through that site made such an impact on my adolescent brain circa 1997-1999 but it was lost to the sands of times after many browser bookmarks migrations.
I had wanted to revisit it for maybe 5 or 6 years now but I couldn’t seem to find any traces of it anywhere.
I kinda worried that the content might feel dated and irrelevant now but, my gods, it does not. “A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty,
and Restore Economic Sanity,” for example, feels even more on-the-nose now, and even prescient of all the nonsense we’re living through now.
It's funny, I actually started this post in 2014 on another old defunct blog I had and never finished it. I am sending gratitude to past me for even being able to find the Deoxy content, otherwise I doubt 2025 me could have found it now. I look back at that stuff and it's so striking how subversive and relevant it was, compared to the zeitgeist today. We need to bring that energy back big time.
I also read this other excellent post today which feels very much connected to this thread: https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/the-decline-of-deviance?r=7i9q4&utm_medium=ios
Couldn’t agree more. Lately I’ve been feeling a resurgence of many old threads and sources of inspiration from that era. Lots of needed medicines to be found in that moment in our collective consciousness.
Well said, and thank you for sharing that post, it does indeed feel very related. Something I was talking with some friends about yesterday was that everything now is so efficiency-based, but the inefficiencies are what allow humans to have time to think deeply about things, to get lost, to discover new ways of doing things. I think the frictionless world pushed by the tech oligarchs leads to stagnation and lack of innovation. But, maybe that's the point?