This is a post my friend Simon Apathy published on 
Indymedia in June of 2003.

Mark Seely, Mark V. Chaney, Fungible Conspiracy Theories, and 
Identity Theft (english) 

The Reverend Simon Apathy 3:26pm Wed Jun 18 '03

Robert Anton Wilson discussed how most conspiracy theorists, 
as their theories begin to age, increase in "fungibility" - 
the use of blanket statements (ie "The Jews have all the 
money", "The Gays are all after our children", etc.). Once a 
conspiracy theory reaches that Manichean extreme, any negative 
proof will actually REINFORCE the theory rather than disprove 
it to the mind of the paranoid, because it's all "lies told by 
the enemy to hold us down...", ad nausaeum. With enough 
"creative" (adjective of questionable appropriatness) thought, 
anything that befalls our fledgeling theorist can be chalked 
up to a PLOT BY THOSE WHO RUN THE WORLD, or whatever... 

In tribal societies, when a magician put a curse on you, they 
not only told you that they did it, but would tell you the 
name of the evil spirit that haunted you...stubbed your toe? 
It was Pazuzu...your house caught on fire? It was 
Pazuzu...your wife cheated on you? It was Pazuzu, on and on 
until you were seeing evil spirits in every bite of food and 
with every step you took. 

Some of the older internet veterans may remember a flamer of 
Usenet who used the name Mark V. Chaney. He would jump in on 
long posts, with lots of replies, and would leave posts that, 
while they (sort of) fit with the train of replies, somehow 
did not make a lick of sense. Eventually they found out that 
Mark F. Chaney was a bot, with an algorithm based off of 
Markov Chains (a probability model that I have no room to 
explain). Basically he was like an electronic William 
Burroughs, devouring text messages, and spitting out cut-up 
interpretations along a similar theme, always nonsensical, but 
often hilarious (for those of us with a Carrolian sense of 
humor). 

Now here's the part where I get to the point: (actually a 
couple of points) 

We have this cat here Mark Seely that posts these bizarre 
gematrian rants. This in itself is harmless, and I even 
welcome it to this site. The movie "2001: A Space Oddyssey" 
predicted the bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pope was in 
on it? You can't find anything that funny in The Onion. I 
happen to be familiar and quite fond of the Absurdist 
movement, and Mr. Seely will probably be dismayed to know that 
have taken a lot of his rants to use in my own computer 
generated text experiments, with very entertaining results. 
His numerology based rants are a welcome break from the 
serious anarcho-leftist posts I spend most of my time 
perusing, and add color to the site. 

But, sadly, our friend Seely is not content to be our private 
Pere Ubu. Our first problem is the extreme racism of the 
posts; but that, on a cursory glance, can be chalked up to the 
growing fungibility or our friend's increasingly suffocating 
glimpse of reality. And some of it, when it grows extreme to 
the point of being absurd, is such a parody of itself that I 
really don't see how anyone could take it seriously enough to 
concern themselves with it. But, as it does not define itself 
as a satire, it is definitely unnecessary to this site, and 
definitely deserves the accusation of being some sort of 
counter-intelligence to the site; remember what happened to 
the Athens Indymedia site (for those that don't remember, 
several Seelyites bombarded it with racist posts, then tipped 
off several search engines that it was a racist site, causing 
it to be banned and a whole host of problems it continues to 
have). And as far as the cat who posts Seely's address and 
phone number every time he makes a racist comment, good for 
you, just make sure you're accurate. 

The second problem, which shouldn't be a problem at all, is 
our friend's habit of repeated posts. THERE IS A VERY DEFINITE 
INDYMEDIA POLICY AGAINST REPEATED POSTS! Why doesn't anyone 
report him, if it's such a big deal? 

Now a previous poster mentioned the problem of identity theft. 
That is, and always will be a problem, but I would rather keep 
my (relative) anonymity than have to deal with any more 
regulation on my internet time. But then again, I have a very 
definite identity. You can find me easily if you know where to 
look. I have 2 websites, I've been publishing 'zines and 
comics for over 6 years now, and I have a band with the same 
name. People can tell a real Apathy post from a fake one. I'm 
not worried about people finding out who I am. I just don't 
need any more ad-spamming, which ALWAYS happens every time I 
post my email address anywhere. 

     THE ANONYMITY IS THE ADVANTAGE. 

Hakim Bey discusses the anarchist concept of "temporary 
autonomous zones". The people are so repressed they don't even 
understand that they should want freedom, so all we can hope 
for at this juncture, until the intellectual evolution of 
mankind, is these temporary, fleeting spaces where we can be 
free, to say what we want and do what we want. And of course 
there are those who will abuse it, but we can't allow that to 
force us to give up our space, because who knows how long til 
another one pops up, and will we be able to find it when it 
does?