As commented by our web designer Carl Hanson:

I wanted to do something clean and optimistic, hence all the white colour, and the "polished" surface. This goes for the logo as well. As for the header image to the right, it symbolizes a sort of fearless, optimistic ride into the future, but choosing a direction that is another than the conventional (democratic/liberal/humanist) - hence the curve. We also needed some colour other than the white, grey and black to make it all less monochrome, so I chose something between red and orange, which aims to show that our intent is passionate and sincere, not passive or dishonest.

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Cyberspace - 07/03/08 - The dollar or the green? That's the question George Monbiot posed in his latest editorial for the Guardian. Monbiot argues that while climate awareness is spreading among people, including the lower classes, the economic worries threaten to overshadow the climate debate. The conflict is well-known for all the readers of Corrupt, who have followed the news releases describing a world where self-interest rules society. The solution promoted by Corrupt and its supporters is a new design where we uphold ancient values of honour, communitarianism, holistic morals, and a joyful, heroic outlook on life. To battle the greed of the financial globalist elite, we need spiritual and cultural weapons. This is not a struggle between armed armies, it's a war between different paradigms of values.

The 1st of July, a crusade of Corruptian cybersoldiers began infiltrating the comments to the editorial and get the disillusioned greenist movement back on track by addressing the real issues and downplaying the self-defeatist mentality of greens who want to believe in change, but revert into defending detailed solutions that only serve as symbolic resistance. "Conservationist" immediately brought the discussion back to the topic of modern selfishness as a psychological motive that underlies the self-destruction of the Western world:

We've followed what is popular/profitable and it got us into this mess; surely we're smarter than repeating the same mistake again.

Most people vote for whatever seems good at the time. They're unaware of everything beyond about the next two weeks, or their next vacation. So the line "Being selfish today will destroy everything in the future" gets the response "What do I care, I'll be dead or retired. I need the money, a new truck and a big-screen TV right now!"

Several people pointed out how the governmental body of politics consistently denies or ignores the real problems facing our planet, and how this is linked to a push for totalitarian globalization. "jeanaillant" put it this way:

The world expansion is a direct function of the energy consumtion. Oil is the major contributor. It has allowed the globalization by reducing the shipping cost. It is also the source of the green revolution which has allow the world population to double in the last 30 years. (fertilizers, pesticides, mechanisation, irrigation, improved seeds)

The club of Rome told us already in 1970 that we could not keep on growing this way as nature doest not like geometrical progression. But they were turn into ridicule.

Today as we do not want to acknowledge previous mistakes, we are invoking a new pretext to halt the world development: the supposed climate change. Yet proofs that man is responsible for that change, if real, are twisted. But what is sure is, that it is another excuse for European governments to raise once more taxes and reduce our liberties.

The 1984-esque scenario concerned several readers, including "icurahuman2," who argued that our civilization itself is at stake, and that a shared effort to recognize the environmental problems and consolidate under that banner to save both the ecology and the human society we've established as parallel to it, is ultimately the goal for humanity at this point in history:

There are two choices before us. We can turn even more against each other in an epic battle of tribes over the remaining resources, and decline rapidly to fringe-dwelling remnants - unto even total annihilation in a battle of the last civilisations standing. Or, we can unite in light of assured paucity of resources and decline slowly toward equilibrium with a shared common goal, the survival of civilisation itself!

Regardless if our climate fears turn out to be based on false information, which at this point is highly unlikely, the problem of overpopulation, deforestation and overindustrialization remain our top green problems to do deal with. Corrupt wants to solve these problems by immediately strangling the world population growth and reduce its numbers down to ~1 billion intelligent, beautiful and creative human individuals, cut back on the technological and industrial overhead, simplify our lifestyle and adapt it to the human nature and its need for physical and mental challenge, and exchange our modern values for those upheld by ancient civilizations that praised the nobility, passion and idealism in man.

Participants included: ElizH, ThinkPositive, Antiglobalism, Conservationist, dave931, forestfrost, jeanaillant, endeu, hobobum, icurahuman2

Target: George Monbiot / This economic panic is pushing the planet right back down the agenda

References for further studies:

Climate scepticism: The top 10
Global population is higher than the Earth can sustain
Corrupt DATA: Globalism
Corrupt Persona: Pentti Linkola

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Corrupt is an influential thinktank & civilization watchdog that believe a better future for humans will come by embracing reality and not silly bureaucratic, academic or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to critique the society of our current time and get human civilization back on track with sorting out our actual problems.

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Earth calling Great Britain: You're no longer great and you're about to become un-Britified. A growing number of uneducated peasants are taking over the political arena and the cultural institutions. Now they've hijacked the English language, seriously proposing to dumb it down by spelling all words phonetically. I guess the American ghetto vocabulary ("dawg," "hoe," "gangsta") wasn't enough of a simplification to make yourself understandable. Together with Portugal we're now closing in on our Third World friends in Brazil. No need for messy translations anymore, since every citizen of the World Empire (c) will be able to say the magical words "I need money" and "I've got hoes in the back, wanna go foh a raaiidh?"

Read Victoria McMagnus' latest column: Idiocrats Hijack British Language

CORRUPT Houston Meeting
June 27, 2008

CORRUPTians descended upon Taco Cabana (www.tacocabana.com) once again to feast on bowel accelerating Mexican food and socialize. Topics covered: how CORRUPT can be a church for the disaffected but not impotent, what we'd prefer in a society, different Linux distros, magical fiction as a metaphor for transcendental idealistic struggle, and the best makers of PC hardware and where to find products in Houston.
A good time was had by all!

About HOUSTON

Houston, TX is a humid, freeway-bound, concrete-plated, cockroach-ridden city expanding along the "Los Angeles model" of automobile-dependent city design. Nevertheless, it is one of the most popular destinations for people seeking the American dream, and home of not only the oil industry, but many thousands of food service workers who have indie rock bands named after serial killers.

About CORRUPT

CORRUPT is a thinktank and civilization watchdog that believes a better future for humans will come by embracing organic reality and not institutional or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to get human civilization back on track by separating fantasy from reality, applying the principles of information science, and promoting organization over confusion.

CORRUPT
PO Box 1004
Alief, TX 77411
(512) 553-4544

http://www.CORRUPT.org/

John C. Dvorak, author, columnist and editor, writes for PC Magazine as well hosts the podcast show "Cranky Geeks." Fed up with the obsession with technology itself, John Dvorak targets the ineffective, pretentious and flashy in the technology field, and wants us to return to functionable, quality products that serve the consumer, not the other way around.

Read the entire interview

Modern people don't often think positively of emperors, kings, or any other figure who holds exclusive rule, whether that figure is ruling over a city or a nation. They generally regard such men (and some women) as tyrants and brutal dictators, even if their actions don't grant such attitudes. Modern minds like to think of democracy as the one and only option for governing, divined to them by the gods. And who could blame them? For as long as anyone can remember they've been watching many of their rulers screw things up with little regard for the well-being of the people. It's hard for many to even imagine that there might have one day been a time in which a truly wise, just, and great ruler had ever existed. If they look deeply into the past, however, they might find that such a man has ruled on this Earth.

Contributor Anthony Domke presents the charismatic Roman Emperor and philosophical thinker Marcus Aurelius, shedding new light on a naturally born genius, whose ideas still today urge us to develop ourselves and make most out of life while we can.

Read about Marcus Aurelius here

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Today is the national day of Québec. We call it national day but the fact is that, politically, Québec isn't a nation. A foreign government is still writing our laws, strengthening its foreign rule every day through immigration and the maintenance of a two official language policy. Because of this, Montréal will soon become an English speaking city. Québec doesn't directly face overpopulation--in fact, population numbers here are going down, like in Europe. Meanwhile, the immigrant/Québécois ratio is steadily going up. It's not hard to realize that multiculturalism currently is destroying our nation.

Read André Audet's latest article La St-Jean-Baptiste: Independence To Québec!

Problem: Our webhost monitors server use, so our forums which use flatfile dbs take up more use

Caveat: They don't monitor db server use

Solution: Update forum to SMF, the PHP/SQL version of yabb

The new forum is now in place. We're sorry for any important threads and personal messages that have been lost. This was the best solution we could provide to fix the problem of flatfile db overuse.

- Corrupt Tech Staff

SWEDEN, Gothenburg
June 20-22, 2008

Day 1

On the 20th of June, an army of Corruptians met up at the train station of Gothenburg. Supporters and staff workers alike came from a variety of places, including Gothenburg, Luleå, Växjö, Lund, and the southern region of Bohuslän. In addition, several foreign supporters joined the meeting, coming all the way from Norway, Canada and England respectively. After eight of the participants had checked in at the nearby hostel, the whole group, counting 11 individuals, went out to eat at an Italian restaurant.

While enjoying fine beer, Italian pasta, and pizza dishes, each individual gave a short presentation to the group of him or her ideological background. The diversity of political viewpoints ranged from libertarian socialism to organic nationalism. Many were keen on discussing the nature of capitalism in its various forms, and how it could be integrated into a healthy society without worshipping profit above culture or ecology. Several participants pointed out that capitalism has a point, in that we need economic competition, unless we want to streamline the production and selling of products like under Communist rule, which historically has turned out to be a failure. Consensus was achieved on the point that money should never go before protecting the environment, and that a meritocratic society works better than an economic system built entirely on the socialist principles of equality. It was also added that we need organic consensus to avoid becoming a profit-machine, which means culture is better as a way of uniting people, than what the current totalitarian system of liberal democracy is.

The group left the restaurant later that evening and walked to the beautiful park called Slottsskogen ("Castle Park"). People stopped by a great pool to watch the playful seals swim in the water, who occasionally floated up to the surface to get some air and curiously looked around to see how came to visit them. One participant suggested that the group head up a nearby hill and explore the surroundings. The group grabbed their backpacks, guitars, and headed up into the forest, stopping by a cliff to take some pictures. Following the hill, the group finally reached a high point where a camp fire and a tower were located. People went up into the tower and were, despite of the cold wind blowing, amazed by the beautiful view. One could see across most of the town, where high buildings, churches, towers, and blinking neon lights lit up the second largest city in Sweden.

While people were descending the opposite side of the hill and walked across the park, it began to rain heavily. Safe from the rain by a train stop, the group decided to split up for tonight. Some stayed in various housings in the city and the rest took the tram back to the hostel. While back at the hostel, shots of Swedish Akvavit (distilled beverage flavoured with different herbs) were served and Helan går ("The whole goes"), a traditional Swedish "grog song," was sung as a short introduction to the coming day, after which people went to bed to get a good night's sleep. Interestingly, two individuals couldn't sleep and preferred to remain awake for a few more hours, discussing metal music and horror movies to the sound of the heavy rain outside. The remaining two people who slept in the room mentioned the following day that they were simply too tired to tell them to keep quiet, although we assume that it was an interesting discussion nonetheless.

Day 2

That same morning, after having eaten Swedish breakfast at the hostel (where Swedish jam, or "marmelad," was well received by the Canadians), people converged at the train station, meeting up with an additional supporter from England. The group took the tram to Gustav Adolfs torg ("the square of Gustav Adolf"), the great Swedish king who founded the city. While the plan was to visit the State Museum, it was unfortunately closed, so the group decided to get something to eat instead. A Greek restaurant served exquisite food and Czech beer, in a surrounding with the Greek gods overlooking the dinner. In the mean time, the Canadians decided to try out the Swedish beer culture instead and later converged with the rest of the group after the dinner. Next stop was Gräfnäsgården ("The courtyard of Gräfnäs") to check out some local folk activities and listen to folk music. This place was surprisingly also closed, on the very Midsummer day, so the group decided to buy some Swedish strawberries instead and split up in two groups. One group went to have some ice cream, while the other followed a trail in the park to observe some animals, among them the majestic moose, who was lying down and relaxing in the shadows under a tree.

The entire group later met up again and went back to the hostel, preparing the evening's Midsummer celebration. Pickled herring in various herbs, Akvavit in different flavours, fresh potatoes, raw spiced salmon from Norway, and Swedish crispbread were some of the things served. Glasses were raised and a loud, collective Skål! ("Cheers") was heard across the hostel area, as the party began. Many laughters and discussions were held in friendly company. A favorite was when one person began to play "The gates of heaven" by German black metal band Asburd on acoustic guitar, while others were singing along to the blasphemous lyrics, declaring war on heaven and love to life on earth. Later into the evening the group went into the hostel to eat Swedish strawberries with whipped cream. It was then suggested that some clubbing would sum up the night pretty well, so the group took the tram into the main city, where a few had to leave the meeting a bit earlier than expected, some went to get into a club, and others headed back to the hostel and relaxed with some drinks.

Day 3

The third day of the meeting started with more rain and a late check-out for those who were supposed to leave the hostel early in the morning. Everyone was tired after last night's partying, but eventually the group converged and was able to meet up with an additional supporter from Gothenburg. Interestingly, there was a market going on just outside the hostel, so the group decided to check that out. It turned out to be an Arab market, where cheap electronics, strange foreign candy and Arab porn were sold to Muslim by passers. There were not so many interesting things to see and the place was so crowded of people that the group eventually decided it was better to go out into the rain, than to stay inside and be stuck in human traffic. People were hungry and therefore took the tram to the main city to get something to eat. After a Chinese buffet, the group went back to the State Museum and found that it was open. An amazing exhibition met the eyes of the visitors, presenting the entire history of Sweden through several floors, of which the pre-Christian Viking age draw most attention. Beautiful pagan figures, coins, weapons and even large remains of an entire Viking ship, entertained much discussion and interest.

The day, despite all the rain, continued at the famous amusement park Liseberg, save for a smaller group of people who wanted to explore the city on their own and weren't keen on rollercoasters. The rest tried both the cliffhanging "Height Fear" and the enormous roller coaster out of wood, "Balder." Some people wanted to try their luck at the wheel of fortune, resulting in two rolls of chocolate. The meeting ended as some participants had to take an emergency bus in order to get home that same night, while other people remained at the hostel in order to take the airplane and bus back home the following day. The meeting was hailed as highly successful in combining discussion, culture and socialization--some declaring it was the best summer ever. The Swedish chapter of Corrupt will continue to arrange future meetings in more organized forms, including confences and group discussions.

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About CORRUPT

CORRUPT is a thinktank and civilization watchdog that believes a better future for humans will come by embracing organic reality and not institutional or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to get human civilization back on track by separating fantasy from reality, applying the principles of information science, and promoting organization over confusion.

CORRUPT
PO Box 1004
Alief, TX 77411
(512) 553-4544

http://www.CORRUPT.org/

CORRUPT meeting: Houston, TX - June 27, 2008

Join us for chat, food and goofing off, with some discussion of the following:

* Emergent pattern languages
* The doctrine of parallelism
* Re-inventing a saner world
* Intelligence and how to nurture it

When: Friday, June 27, 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Where: Taco Cabana, 3905 Kirby Houston, TX 77098 (Kirby @ Richmond)
Contact: Brett Stevens

About HOUSTON

Houston, TX is a humid, freeway-bound, concrete-plated, cockroach-ridden city expanding along the "Los Angeles model" of automobile-dependent city design. Nevertheless, it is one of the most popular destinations for people seeking the American dream, and home of not only the oil industry, but many thousands of food service workers who have indie rock bands named after serial killers.

About CORRUPT

CORRUPT is a thinktank and civilization watchdog that believes a better future for humans will come by embracing organic reality and not institutional or emotional abstractions. Our goal is to get human civilization back on track by separating fantasy from reality, applying the principles of information science, and promoting organization over confusion.

CORRUPT
PO Box 1004
Alief, TX 77411
(512) 553-4544

http://www.CORRUPT.org/