The internet is a great tool --- already, we’ve been posed this question twice via email and we might as well try to sit down, work with crayons and legos, and really commit to a few beliefs.  A couple of our guiding principles, on paper once and for all.  This is way harder than it sounds.

At the BIPT, we don’t delude ourselves about “education” or “learning”.  As a teacher, there’s nothing more gratifying than than that magic moment when your student “gets it.” This is why you must actively punish them for understanding.  Don’t ever kid yourself into thinking teaching is even possible.  Your students will never get it—you can trick them into getting something else, but they’d never be able to teach that to you. 

So lie to your would-be students—they’ll either get the joke that nobody really understands anything and we’re all decieving ourselves to a literally unthinkable degree—or they will hate you bitterly.  Despite everything you just read, the following is completely true.

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Howdy.  I’m Justin Boland.

Brainsturbator is an antidote to paranoia. This is a broadcasting platform for better futures, informed optimism, and hands-on engagement with nature and technology.

We encourage community-level empowerment and corporate-level collapse, and we suspect the world will be a better place because of both. We promote wild abundance and undermine centralized control. We do not ask for permission, but we do encourage feedback.

We’re advocating personal freedom, local organizing, and open source communication. We’re opposed to patents, censorship, and unrestricted power.  “Sustainable” is small-fry, and Collapse is just nightmares—we should be thinking in terms of super-abundance.

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