America Is Dying. Only You Can Save It.
SamWystan
FINAL ISSUE EVER
The News Hitler Doesn't Want You To Know!
"...individuals' stated intentions often bear little relationship to the nature of their actions, because individuals often cannot or will not articulate their motives..." ~Rose Weitz, American sociologist
Defeated By My Own Country, Destroyed By Friends
It was a long battle last night. I knew it was about to be over when I noticed Alexander_Auctoritas ordering snipers around on the IRC (my supporters, there's a Wig name for you). Claire will tell you she spent all day handling misinformation. I will say the same. When I began running in earnest, it was no longer a PTO. But Rod Damon said it was, and that wasn't right. Rod Damon was wrong!
(I am as tired as he is)
Haliman came out pretty much against me. One of the few to stand up for me in the media was Leroy Combs, who was disgusted that PTO operations were being used against me. I'm not surprised though. Player Wigs have a lot more to lose than Admin Wigs.
None of you can ever really understand why this happened. As with The Fieldist few can discern my true opinions. Let me just say, that when I went to bed last night after Iasov had shot up with sniper votes, I fell asleep smiling.
People To Thank
There are so many.
First and foremost, I thank the America's Advancement Party. I have always been an AAP partisan, and was a member of their leadership. If I am a Libertarian, I am one in the original French sense of the word, which nowadays would be called a Left Libertarian.
I thank Ananias. Without him, there would be no Department of Fun under Scrabman. Those of you who flung up your hands in anger last night clearly are in need of one. I suggest you go assist Paul Proteus who's never seemed to lose his cool and always enjoyed himself.
I thank the newspapers and their writers, especially folks like Jythier Smith. There are great Americans who few Americans have heard of, but when we were young, we tried to get subs and we had newspaper wars.
I thank USNG, 3rd Division; Hari Michaelson, johnwoodman, loftedraptor, WahooBob etc. These are my first comrades, and also where I learned to hate Google Docs and bureaucracy. We fought for Mexico. It's a shame that so few of them stayed to see it conquered. Wait, Bob, weren't you my sergeant when I was a lieutenant? Wow, I can't believe I didn't remember that the whole time.
(How does it feel?)
The Christmas Movement. Thanks for being there and being organized. You were my first foray into anti-authority politics. You all should join with my supporters.
Dio has always been an aspiration of mine. Likewise Emerick also provided a good target for a level to achieve. I never reached their level, but hopefully I'll eclipse them to a new generation.
Claire Littleton wanted to see her name up here, and it truly does deserve to be her. Claire has/had? a magnetic pull to her. I worry that she expended it trying to fight me. Anyways, in the glory days, Claire made you want to get close to her, and it's something I was always attracted to. My relationship with Claire is probably as good a metaphor as any for my relation to power in this game: very distant, very close, and then utterly destroyed.
Wystan's Raiders, I created the patch before I created you, and enjoyed every second I saw the little patch with my initials on it, my RI anchor, and the userbar. Never forget.
Everyone else who believed in Fun.
Aftermath & To The Insurgents
Had I won last night, I would have done my best to convince the Libertarian leadership to stick around and train the party. Or build opposition in the party to me. I would not have stayed more than a month though, and would not have run for PP again.
To my supporters, now is the time to build. I have given three people a list of names. A list of those sick of the way things are going. Sick of Player Wigs. Sick of Admin Wigs who built a "social" game but failed to provide for the "social" aspect. Hopefully, these three apostles(?) will begin to talk to each other, and then begin the work of building a movement in time for Congressional elections. Perhaps they'll build a party. There's already an organization out there. Assist them. Even those who voted against me but believed in the real criticisms I had.
(With one I create, with the other I destroy)
CRoy said last night that this would have been really bad if there'd been an organized PTO threat from another country in another party. But there wasn't. So screw him (besides, we would have had a lot of fun that way). "If". If "ifs" and "buts" were cherries and nuts... "If" I'd won. Everyone is fair game for mockery. Start a satirical newspaper if you support me. Lampoon the powers that be. Trust me, they need it.
This was the best election I've ever witnessed. I'm a newb who never got old, never accepted the way things "had" to be. Look at my dates. Look at when I started, who I've known. I'm nearly 2 years old. Uncle Sam won the presidency the day after I joined. And I'm not alone. Old-timers as well as young players agree, we hate the fake government that makes us feel stupid and bad. Give us some freedom.
And Me?
Adapted from The Grapes of Wrath:
I'll be all around in the night. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so young players can run, I'll be there. Wherever there's a Player Wig beatin' up on a guy for being new or not doing things the "right way", I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way newbs smile when they've won and they try and change things, and when the people are playing the game, and tearing down the old systems, I'll be there, too.
(So long)
Last night, Iasov called the stuff beyond the game the "metagame". I think that's an accurate description of it. But it's all fake. It's only real because you give it consequence. We call this the "social imagination". Things that are perceived as real are real in their consequences. If you recognize the right of the FEC to sort through candidates and blockers, if you recognize Congress' right to do things beyond what the game has given them power to do, if you recognize the President's cabinet, you perceive them as real, and give them weight. If you spit in their eye, and say, "screw you, you're just a player, my word is as good as yours," you can accomplish anything. There is no limit. The only limit is the mediocrity of your own imagination.
In the end, every outrageous lie and joke I published in The Fieldist was just as real as any act of Congress or any Presidential order (Operation Taco Bell being the pinnacle of that).
I won't come back. So org vote this up for me. Do me a simple solid, and get this into the Top 5. Syrup, I'm looking at you.
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SAM'S CORNER
Wystan's Raiders: We Rock
Dear Raiders, you are great people. I have enjoyed commanding you. Continue the fight, and by the way, ALARM is pretty bad name for a militia.
Don't join the Libertarian Writers' Guild, it only exists in papers. Tibbets is dead!
Goodbye.
Play me out, Keyboard Cat!
Comments
Good riddance
Sam rules
Just read the PM I sent the first time again, that'll be enough.
will miss ya bud. Wish you stayed around for a round two, at least.
See ya Sam....
*Sigh* I'll miss reading the Fieldist all the time.
If Dio wills it
Bye Sam! Good Friend, Great Player, Great Avatar
so long 🙁
Later Sam
Can't think of anything to say,
This article was your best
its a sad day... later bro
"Our syrup-sucking, horribly misspelled affiliate in the north, The Fieldest Canada! Now defunct!"
Did saltydog trash-talk your brother into submission? It's a shame he won't be publishing.
lol aww
Sad to see you go, but I lost my respect for you today. If you believe so greatly in Anti-Elitism, stick around and fight it, we don't need a martyr for this.
;_;
To smile before the end,
When you know you have not a single friend;
Should be reserved but for the Isle,
Let not be sprayed with slander and bile,
Just trek on,
I'll catch ya in heck
I forgot a couple of links in there. They greatly enhance the final message.
V
Cheers, Sam
You wrote an outstanding paper. I'll miss The Fieldist notifications. Hurry back.
good luck
It is to bad your quitting at the beginning of a great anti-elitist war. Your loss was just a skirmish. It will take much more to prevail.
V
O>
"Give us some freedom."
Rebels, to your bicycles!
Ah man.. caught you later bro.
Voted from Ireland.
Eh, good run. I was never a fan but at least you did something original.
O>
Great. Let's keep losing players who are fed up with the bullshit. Great work idiots... go back to your little circle jerk
Good Luck in RL.
God knows we need some of that in here...
Raiders Forever.
See ya Sam, write when you find work.
Had to leave a smart ass comment one more time.
It's been fun, a rarity today in eRep. I will never have your flair of being flip or be a master of half truth sarcasm. I will, as Chief Joseph of Nez Perce Tribe said, "endeavor to persevere".
finally
I take my hat off and bow my head. Good luck in the real world.
Elitism has claimed another victim. We will continue our fight against them. Those that think that are entitled to something...that others are merely a tool for their ambitions. I will never be apart of the elitism in this country. I will fight it just as you did. Best regards.
Screw this game.
Come back and lead your followers!
We killed another one?
You *ss wipes just won't learn. You'll say "Sorry Sam" and wish him the best of luck, but all you've done is push another one of your "rivals" out of your damn way.. and killed another Orator of Fun and another Son of Truth.
Damn it, Sam. Please, come back. T_T
I hope to see you elsewhere out of the game. You were one of the aspects of eRepublik that made it worthwhile to login.
Sam...
This sucks. Be back soon.
And thanks for the inspiration!
Goodbye Sam. I support you through this, and while it may not have been publically, just know that I wanted and thought you should/could win. Sad to see you go, but take it easy.
Life in the elite is ugly, brutish and short - sort of a Erepublikan satire of "I, Claudius" -
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=i+claudius+youtube&tnr=20&b=61
The irony is that them is us. To think otherwise is the greatest mass illusion in game. Yet I hear it daily. Someone once metioned cool aide.
You were a good writer Sam. If there's a lesson to this it's that one mustn't crash and burn to achieve their goals. Yours were within reach, only your strategy was wrong.
See you in your next incarnation.
I'll miss you SamWystan!
Good bye Sam you were a great pvt.
back in a bit then. Great writing.
French fries.
what? no!
despite the game sucks and all humans are idiots, leaving is not a solution. because it is only running away what makes your opponents vicory real...
o7 Sir
You were, in fact, my first CO in the USNG.
I have to admit, I often sided with Jythier Smith in the newspaper wars, but I still remember that very first DOF article where Emerick talked about all the different kinds of fun. I read it on my dad's blackberry in the car on an interstate somewhere. He kept wanting to know what was so damn funny.
SamWystan was pretty damn funny.
o7