Classic myspace bulletin 18: Act like you know

Act Like You Know

Earlier in the year, delegates from the Reality Compound flew to New York to meet with legendary club DJ Frankie Bones, the man who brought raving to America and raised Dance music up from the underground.

And he told them of his forthcoming CD:

“Act Like You Know”

The CD was just full of really bland, boring Techno that would have sounded fresh in 94. But in the music was a life changing message for RC Crew.

“Act Like You Know”

And indeed, it was the internet, it was America, and it was the land of the free. And to be true hipsters, it was a code for them always to follow. Acting like they knew was not to require of them anything but total acceptance and assumption of a preconceived notion – thus needing no acknowledgement or validation unless called upon.

Since the dawn of time, humans have acted as if they knew.

In his song, “Act Like You Know” Fat Larry Sang:

“There are always stars in the firing line”

It’s an extremely funky tune so even though it might not make sense it must have some significance. He also spoke of:

“Finding a beat that will make you hot to trot.”

But of course the fundamental principal in question had to be layed bare. Why must one act in order to appear as if one knows? It is simple. The act of all-knowing is that which you would prescribe to your god or your spiritual entities that are perceived to be spiritually superior, and only a radical egotist would be deluded enough to believe they themselves were atop the chain of universal wisdom. And thus it is a pretense to believe so and a weakness.

And sun tzu in his classic treatise “The Art of War” who spoke of such things, writing that the victor in the outcome of any conflict is the one who knows his own and his enemies strengths and weaknesses best. And in this way sight can be blind, that to the enemy, ones appearance, one image, ones presence must mask their identity and the true nature of their intentions.

And what of the humble? Humility is an act of love and respect. The real world nor the internet is not the place for such acts to be taken lightly. But it is a dainty craft and discipline also for one who acts as if they know to never be drawn on such a matter in which they do not know, for it is all cloak and dagger, and smoke and mirrors.

“Dark are the nights at sea, that my blind eyes may look upon the future and ask.”

- Homolopolus (ancient philosopher)