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Definition of a Cyber-Psycho

By Ravan Asteris (theravan@nospam.wco.com), June 1996

In our current society, it often seems that the norm is insane. The stresses that the modern individual has to contend with are bewildering, and the greatest of these is the pressure to conform with the standards of multiple, often conflicting, ideologies and subcultures. We are pressed by the media, our peers, and our laws to behave in a manner which may not suit us. Our control over our own lives seems to be slipping. The "information age" dumps more data on us, more demands. Our society is maddening.

A cyber-psycho chooses his/her insanity. Seeking independance in an increasingly interdependant world, they realize that their efforts are, by the "accepted" norms, insane, psychotic. Yet, in their own way, the cyber-psycho becomes more capable, functional. By accepting their own "insanity" (non-normality), the person becomes free to cope. By walking to their own drummer, they are no longer frozen in place, trying to pick a beat to follow.

Cyber-psychos differ from cyberpunks in that their attitude is not one of meaningless rebellion, but one of deliberately chosen belief in the virtue of the defined, albeit "abnormal" individual, and the consequent actions of that individual. They reject the lock-step of Madison Avenue and their ilk, seeking their own way and contact with like minds. Both young and old, they have a viewpoint, a subculture, in common.

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