Ideological Code

It is obvious to the casual observer that Kult lacks ideological unity - just watch the flame wars rage on our web page. We do not all agree specifically on What-Is-To-Be-Done (or What-Is-Not-To-Be-Done, for that matter). The more-or-less commonly accepted purpose of Kult is as follows:

To support our members through networking, counseling, moral support, and sharing of resources;
To end victimization in society through awareness, information distribution, and group action;
To promote individuality through creation of original artwork, music, literature, and expression; and
To spread and grow our organization through expression, referral, and promotion.

This is vague and general, as opposed to specific - the best way for our current Org to define itself, for when we try to specifically define ourselves, there are those who disagree. We tried to work backwards, that is, to form the Org then figure out the ideology we would follow.
This is doomed to fail unless we stay very vague (and Romulus was, with the above 4 points that he wrote).

The beauty of this can be examined employing set theory: that within the set of Kult there can exist groups with a more clearly and distinctly defined ideology that works within the vague outlines of Kult (every sub-organization is Kult but Kult is not any particular sub-group) A group with clear and distinct ideology is a group with effective foundation upon which to build an Organization.
This requires 2 things to begin with (applying this to the current state of affairs in Kult): Initiative - members must start their ideological groups, and Numbers - so we can populate these groups with enough people to have some effect. Producing this Initiative is a person issue. Producing the numbers requires more "spreading the virus".

Survival of Viral Strains -

From a purely Darwinian standpoint:

Those ideological sub-groups that are ineffective in any purpose will fail; those that are effective and self-propagating will thrive. Think of it as a virus that mutates in many ways, the effective strains taking root and growing. It isn't that simple, of course, meme viruses are finicky things, to understand the future, we must examine the past:

From a more dialectic standpoint:

KBM has no chance to survive without the same sort of trouble that KULT went through, because KBM is essentially the old, dogmatic, dictatorial KULT. The undoing of the old KULT was a result of Sean being too despotic, unwilling to accept other ideas, and self-contradictory in his message.

Perhaps you are familiar with the dialectic method?
To advance, there will be conflict of some sort between a concept and its antithesis. Let us use KULT and the Revival movement as an example.

System A: Back in the day, Sean was an autocratic leader and the Org was based around one man - him, thus, it was extremely centralized, even if in a laissez faire manner; it was almost a Kult of personality (heh) to some.

System -A: Around the time of the Revival, there was no dictator; no captain of the KULT battle cruiser, there was effectively no Patient-0. There was no leader; the organization was almost completely de-centralized. Sure, we had the page to base ourselves around, but there was no common direction.

System B: Then we got together, 3 people wrote up organization plans for Kult, in an attempt to solve the problem of the utter turmoil when no organization existed and the problem of the dictatorial organization. We ended up with the 5ministry plan, which is a system that takes advantage of some of the strengths (and to some extent, weaknesses) of both systems - I shall explain.

Within the 5Ministry plan system, the small extent of authority/power over the organization is in two bodies: the Initiation Cell and the Lead Cell. The Initiation Cell's power is available to anyone who volunteers to help out with the cell, and they collectively determine who is allowed in to Kult. The Lead Cell (more accurately the "Arbitration Cell") exists to resolve conflicts and boot people out of the organization, if necessary. Everything in between is open to whoever wants to do whatever they want in our laissez faire tradition of Kult (within the guidelines of Kult set out in part by the VM and various other common agreements).
The 5min plan must be made to allow for change, for change is inevitable. The virus is always growing, mutating, and spreading, and with it our Org will change. Also, the Org allows for ideological difference (and change) within itself to the point where we have a common general direction, but different specific directions. This is a form of directional chaos for we are all pushing the same direction in slightly different ways.

The Virus is Inevitable

SKTFM did not start the meme virus that we are all a part of - he got it from listening to Jello Biafra, reading The Media Monopoly, and watching Fight Club. Our idea is not a new one, merely a strain started by SKTFM that grew out of his ability to control it.

The corporate / political power pyramid is sowing the seeds for its on destruction - just look at us. Its only a matter of time before there is a major change. What exactly that change will be, I'm not sure; It might not even be something I would like to see, but I am damn well going to try to fight for what I believe is right.

by Zerstorer
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