[UA] Sometimes UA Just Falls Into Your Lap

[James Hardie]

Sure Warhol's 15 minutes are out there, but that's not nearly enough. The 
point is snagging other peoples 15 minutes. Getting attention isn't enough, 
you've got to take it from others, ensuring your cycle-by TV assassination 
occurs at the same time that a new children's hospital is being opened so 
that the news crews that were going to film that up and leave to chase you 
instead.

There's power in being the center of attention sure, as all the mass of 
humanity focuses on you they are allowing you to use that focus, to leach 
their energy in a sense, or save it up for later. its like the water cycle, 
a natural flow of energy that's part of the world, people passing it back 
and forth amongst themselves as they share time and focus.
The problem is that you only normally gather so much yourself, and you can't 
easily stop yourself giving it out to others. To tap this resource, you 
should stop paying attention to anyone else. Giving in to others wants/needs 
and you give them your energy, pay too much attention and your down to the 
level of everyone else. draw as much attention to yourself as possible, if 
this is done at the expense of another, all the better. Your picking up the 
flow that should have gone to him, as well as the flow you would have gotten 
naturally- and you'll need to if you want to drag yourself above the common 
flow, to take and harness this energy to become bigger than all the other 
fish in this great sea of attention.
its simple really- big fish eat little fish. So make headlines and be a big 
fish.

>From: "Eslington ~" <eslington at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
>To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
>Subject: Re: [UA] Sometimes UA Just Falls Into Your Lap
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:32:45 +0000
>
>Or perhaps someone just out to be famous.
>
>Videomancers draw power from common attention of an external broadcast,
>Iconomancers draw power from the fame of modern legends, but what about
>drawing power from personal fame?
>
>We all get a kick, I'm sure, when our website counters roll around a
>milestone number, or when people respond to our message board posts.
>Many of us have been on TV, even as a face in the crowd. More than a few
>people you know have gotten at least a "Hi Mom!" moment in the sun.
>
>(Mine came when I turned up in a newspaper after sending in an application
>to be the first Briton in space. I was six at the time so it probably made
>for a cute story.)
>
>Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame are out there for the grasping.
>
>After all, if people are looking at you they're not thinking about their
>jobs, their spouses or their cars. For a few moments they're thinking about
>you, and if enough people do that then you're clocking up
>several manhours of aggregate human focus.
>
>He who dies with the most attention wins!
>
>On 2/11/07, Bastien Pilon <demiurge.gnosis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Videomancer trying to cop a major charge from the evening news, not to
>>mention relieving the suffering of those poor televisions under the
>>yoke of the mundane oppressors unworthy of the cathode-ray tube's
>>blessing.
>>
>>The television will be revolutionised.


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