News
announcement: i'm on hiatus for a bit (june 2019).
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I am a media juggernaut and a lot of my writing and content is slapdash. There is a surfeit of annoying grammatical errors, such as sloppy split infinitives. It would be nice to take the time to edit everything for greater readability but the fact is that my site has over six hundred separate pages and well over one million published words. I simply don't have time to thoroughly edit old work.
My only serious concern is that over the years a lot of my writing has been produced out of frustration - a kind of frustration that I'm not feeling at the moment. In the past week, I have gone through over one hundred pages at LowBrowsing and I have already deleted many paragraphs that expressed seething outrage for the Ideological Left or laissez-faire capitalism. It isn't that I have warmed to radicals, but I have found more productive ways to express my concerns. |
In the month of May, I completed my first book and it is the big daddy of my portfolio - a one hundred thousand word manuscript that could be described as fictional autobiography and which is inspired by Vonnegut and Findlay. Currently, I am in the process of having professional editors proofread the book and then I will aggressively seek out a literary agent. If that fails, then I am determined to run a crowdfunding campaign. Don't expect new content on LowBrowsing for a very long time.
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50 Newest Pages at LowBrowsing...
Trying out Social Club...
I have decided to start up my art feed on Social Club this time. Look me up there - Lobotomous.
LowBrowsing Rebuilt Summer 2018...
A long hot summer in 2018
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I rebuilt LowBrowsing and it took over two weeks. Dead links have been replaced and content is now organized more intuitively. More content will be added to the site shortly.
Just FYI, What was formerly the Lobotomous section is now Fons Bormer but focuses on personal creative and critical works. There is a new Lobotomous section exclusively for gaming related works - creative and critical. |
The Massifesto and Roman Charity sections are now properly situated in the r/K Universe section. r/K ("ark") was previously named W.A.R.. Finally, a lot of media review, top lists (i.e. Touchstoner) and so on, are in the XHT Media section. My "best" or "top" lists are always based on personal preference and taste.
I think that these four categories make more sense. It will be easier to navigate my site and find what you want. It will also be easier for me to add new content. I didn't like that I was building new pages specifically for 2018. That was making my site more like a blog and LowBrowsing is a lot more than a blog.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the content of Massifesto and Prolepticon is not self-effacing and there is an important context that has to be understood. So please read the precis... especially before you start jumping around via the stamps on the front page.
I think that these four categories make more sense. It will be easier to navigate my site and find what you want. It will also be easier for me to add new content. I didn't like that I was building new pages specifically for 2018. That was making my site more like a blog and LowBrowsing is a lot more than a blog.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the content of Massifesto and Prolepticon is not self-effacing and there is an important context that has to be understood. So please read the precis... especially before you start jumping around via the stamps on the front page.
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Screenplays...I have been writing a lot of screenplays recently (summer 2018). Two feature-length scripts are complete and I am working on two more at the moment. My goal is to have one hundred scripts complete over the next year or so. A tall task but at least then all of my best stories would be in screenplay format.
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Netflix Reviews...I did a hell of a lot of movie and TV reviews between the summer of 2018 and 2019. I reviewed over 200 movies and almost 50 seasons of TV.
This is an ongoing project and I'll probably only get a chance to do more media reviews during holiday seasons. |
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Social Media and Influence...I still upload videos to YouTube so that I can embed that content here at LowBrowsing. Otherwise, I find YouTube to be completely useless. The search engine is flooded with non-creative and redundant user commentary and it makes it impossible to build a following of fans or haters.
I was uploading art to social media for a year, and built up a good following, but the apps are waning in interest at the moment and so I took a break from it. |
Critical Work - Game Studies
I am still working on a dissertation that examines the mobile game, Gods of Olympus.
Banner made by Fons Bormer using official art from Gods of Olympus
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I'm With Stupid, Stupid!This is my shirt design and I think it represents the spirit of LowBrowsing pretty nicely lol. What are you waiting for? Piss everyone off with this toxic expression! If you are surrounded by people who can't take a joke, then maybe this isn't the shirt for you.
Available through RedBubble Also Check out LowBrowsing Apparel! |
The Philosophy of
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My website is intended to be a few things: ironic, a stream of consciousness, experimental philosophy. I hold individualism to be the most important quality of existence, and although in the past I have been a supporter and opponent of different ideas, movements, and people, the reality is that this website presents experimental thoughts and volatile ideas. History isn't fixed and is constantly subject to reinterpretation therefore all ideas that individuals hold should be the same. But, if you want to know who I really am and how I really think, you'd have to meet me in real life.
As for online, I like that the web is a platform for provocation and I believe that this helps people grow and develop, both through authorship and readership. If someone claims that how they present themselves online is genuine to who they really are then you should meet that person with the greatest suspicion. The web is a place of creative performances where you can try out new personas, personality traits, ideas, and philosophies. I laud the human race for maintaining the web in this way and the moment that this place ends up policed for ideas and personal statements is where we have then found ourselves living in an Orwellian dystopia. I am against true hate speech and I never recommend harm against others. Almost all of my work is to be treated as fiction and fantasy. If you can't do that then you shouldn't be here. |
from X-Factor #25
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Fons Bormer
r/K Universe (pronounced "Ark")
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Lobotomous
The Gods of Olympus Book
XHT Media
Art Blog...
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Social media sites are becoming mostly crooked and corrupt, and I don't trust using them. Content gets pulled and accounts get suspended, thus defying community trust. Currently I suspect that smaller social media apps use microphones and cameras to record and store user data. We are far too trusting (or apathetic) when signing up for social media and handing over our privacy rights.
I plan on making my own social networking site in the future, but that is a very big project so some other stuff comes first. I love sharing the best art so that people discover great artists. I was using social media to share art, but have taken a break. However, my art galleries at LowBrowsing feature thousands of the best artwork ever created. |
Zhilong Li
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Fallen King...
Fallen King is my new Twitch.TV channel persona. The channel name is FonsBormer. The plan is to stream a lot of Gears 5 in 2019, but before that I'd like to stream some content related to the stories I write. We'll see how that plays out.
Mission Statement...
"CREATOR VS CREATION" - collage work and photomanipulation by Fons Bormer
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There is no truth in collectivist activism for the Engineering epoch. I accept that activism was critical in previous epochs and I do not argue against the value of the American Civil War, or French Revolution, or Civil Rights movement. My fear is that the activism borne of the Service epoch may disrupt our transition to the Engineering epoch and delay our social progress long enough that automation renders us useless. I believe that this anxiety is at the heart of classical notions of socialist dystopias. We get a sense in classic dystopian narratives, from film and literature, human work is redundant and organized for political ends because there is no other purpose for human effort. We must avoid this future.
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The most effective way to make the transition to the Engineering epoch is to master individual-based rationality, to reject political activism which does not naturally resonate internally, and to promote the philosophy of shared space over that of safe space.
Disclaimer: This website is "Shared Space", not "Safe Space"
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There are some old LowBrowsing disclaimers still on this site. There are also explanations for The Massifesto and The Prolepticon. I create a lot of online personas and explore those characters through assuming their identity at times. I believe that this is a great exercise for writers, which I consider myself to be. It is like shadow-boxing... so don't put your face too close to my fist because I'm not intending to knock you the fuck out.
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It is difficult to keep track of my aliases, but currently Fons Bormer represents original creative work (formerly Lobotomous Monk). Lobotomous now represents my identity in the world of gaming as that name has been my gamertag for many years. The r/K Universe has Lobotomous Coal's Prolepticon and Bill Ides's Massifesto. XHT Media is for work that reviews other people's creative work, and not my own. If I did it, that content is in the first three sections, and if someone else did it and I'm reviewing that then it is in XHT (with a few exceptions). I cycle through my online identities but here is a shorter list: Typo Monq, Typo Oth, Lobotomous Monk, and Fons Bormer. Some of my older work still has these aliases (and maybe others such as "A.J. Dubya" or "Jackman Wylde").
If it is important for you to contact me and deal with me directly, email is lowbrowsing @gmail.com. However, if you stay at this site then you agree that this is a place where fiction and reality are intentionally conflated and ALL work is satirical. I'm serious.
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