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INTRODUCTION

1. The R-POT Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Nerrian race. They have greatly increased the LUL-expectancy of those of us who live in "Off-Topc" areas, but they have destabilized society, have made posting unfulfilling, have subjected Nerrs to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering, and have inflicted severe damage on the forum's infrastructure. The continued development of R-POT will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject Nerrs to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the forum, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "Off-Topic" areas.

2. The R-POT-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing Nerrs and many other Newbies to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

3. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

4. We therefore advocate a revolution against the R-POT system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence: it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can't predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the R-POT system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

5. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the R-POT-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed Gaming and GD movements, we have written very little about General Discussion degradation or the destruction of logical game topics, even though we consider these to be highly important.