The New Extreme Individual Institute

Few people have the strength and fortitude to stare directly into the eyes of the future forms which are preparing to take our place.
~ ~ Dr. Christopher S. Hyatt

Do not take anything in this book literally! Wait, on second thought, take it all literally! — Joseph Matheny, author of Ong’s Hat the Beginning and Game Over

Psychopaths have usually been regarded by the public as either cartoon-like (Eminem, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst) or a threat to the prevailing social order (Quake video-game junkies). For a brief period in the mid-1990s, the fascination with suave serial killers and film characters like Dr. Hannibal Lecter suggested that the psychopath was undergoing revision, being transformed from murderous villain to flawed yet admired hero.

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Matthew Rossi has an ingenious story concept for the Joker, moving him away from homicidal monomania towards someone who better perpetuates the randomness and chaos he supposedly personifies:

Why did the Joker steal the costume from a local college team’s mascot and wear it while robbing the Gotham Stock Exchange, and for that matter, why did the Joker break into the Gotham Stock Exchange just to steal three stockbroker’s wallets at gunpoint? Why is he paying street gangs to slash the tires of every Audi 5000 in the city?

The Joker as a practitioner of Chaos Theory would completely confound the Detective who relies on following clues to solve crimes and looks for meaning in details. Villains like the Riddler who deliberately leave clues play to Batman’s strengths, but Batman’s attempt to impose order on an intentionally random series of crimes would necessarily fail if not drive him insane.

I love the thought of Batman insisting on drawing meaning out of clues that turn out to be dead ends. He would inevitably become a pathetic conspiracy theorist, like a Tom Hanks who can find something in anything but discovers at the end of the story that there is no Da Vinci Code after all. Sure, it might be a pessimistic conclusion implying that there is no continuity in the world, but it would at least be an authentically Noir ending for that darkest of private dicks.

The built-in metaphor of randomly shuffled playing cards would also make better use of the Joker’s name than merely his being a clown whose special pathology is telling jokes that aren’t funny. (original article)

The Los Angeles chapter of the NEW EII will soon begin operation. They have chosen to operate underground and close to the vest and have pledged to launch Cacophony Society/Fight Club style hijinks in the greater LA area as well as pursuing Radical Undoing. Contact la-chapter@neweii.com for more information.

It’s come to our attention that  The Psychopath’s Bible is being expurgated at “that other falcon”. We’ll bet good money that Original Falcon’s version will remain unexpurgated, because after all, isn’t mangling  the work of a dead brother (who’s no longer around to protest)  to satisfy one’s own petty grudges and delusions of grandeur kind of…well, you know, bleh?