Talk:Introduction

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I am working on the new introduction, and hope to have it posted by July 15. --firsty 14:45, 5 July 2006 (PDT)

I gots the something like a first draft up today (July 17). I will continue to clean up the prose a bit, but there it is. --firsty 10:03, 17 July 2006 (PDT)

nice, but do we really need the last line? i didn't find that relevant. --Anyname1 15:09, 25 October 2006 (PDT)

which line, this one?:"Love live the revolutions, and may gods bless America."? please describe your issue with it and feel to sign in and discuss. --firsty 05:55, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

thats the one. sorry, i should have been more clear: i just don't think the god bit is necessary.

if this is not the place for discussion, let me know and i'll move all of this somewhere else:

this is the place. no worries. as far as the god bit, notice it's "gods," and it is intentional, intended to demonstrate that all gods or no gods is fine with us, and should be fine for america. --firsty 08:07, 26 October 2006 (PDT)

this is a great project at all, and i agree with most of what you said. especially the bit about not promoting communism. the current government is not working, and that must be rectified. this place has some excellent ideas on how to fight, but what are we going to do if we win, exactly?

here's steal this movie, feature film documentary on abbie hoffman. released in 2000. this may be inspirational to some. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858962939917432628&q=steal+this+movie+hoffman

--Anyname1 15:09, 25 October 2006 (PDT)

cool! nice link - thanks! --firsty 08:07, 26 October 2006 (PDT)

I've got to admit that there's a lot of passion that's been put into this Introduction, as well as the effort to put this book online in wiki format. BUT... Jeez, pull your head out of your ass. This introduction sucks. I'm not good enough at writing to explain it good. But basically, your left-wing rantings of the government are both annoying and at the same time, unnecessary. Dude, if people want to live for free, and live outside normal society, then talk about how it's a no apologies manual on how to do that, regardless of laws and morals and shit. You're basically trying to justify why this info is here. Give up justifying what you've done, and just do it! -----15:19, 19 February 2008 (MST)

the beauty of wikis is that you can show us your version of the introduction as well. firsty 18:27, 19 February 2008 (MST)

If you have any suggestions we'd love to hear them. If you think it sucks, what would you change? Root 21:30, 19 February 2008 (MST)

First, I'd like to apologize for jumping in as a newcomer without taking time to fully see what you're about. Second, I can't edit the intro, although I could certainly post suggestions in this page. But I suppose getting into the whole "I need to slow down a bit and learn what you're about" before doing any writing is probably A Good Thing. Third, the basic outline of *my* ideal Steal This Wiki would be focused more on "I Actually Did This and here's my results and pictures and proof" rather than disclaimers and keyboard jockey theorizing about what *should* work

OK, I think I've read enough. User:Winstonsmith slowly moves towards the exit, without making any sudden moves...

What a strange person this Winstonsmith, my reading of this wiki indicates that most of the many ideas are either well documented or they host a PDF from a reputable source and avoid directly instructing. He sounds like a troll with an agenda. Did he read anything but the intro? Great work so far, when will this be in stores?

new part?

I think there should be a part about how we are being spoon-fed by corpgov (we eat food but can't grow it, we read books but we can't make them, etc), how at any moment corpgov could take that away the luxuries we take for granted, and how this book helps put the production of goods back in the hands of the people. ElixirFreak